X 2023-A1 - Oil Painting for Beginners with Corinne Lilyard-Mitchell
February 21, 2023 @ 10:30AM — March 28, 2023 @ 1:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
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6 Week Oil Painting Class Beginners - basic drawing skills recommended
Tuesdays, February 21-March 28, 10:30am-1:00pm
Age: 16+
Class Description:
Oil Painting for Beginners is designed for students who would like to learn about the materials and the basic skills needed to paint with oils. The focus will be on value, color, and composition. Through step-by-step demonstration students will learn about paint mixing, composition, and various forms of application. The focus will be on still life painted from photos and life.
Objectives – The outcomes a student will walk away from your class with:
- Students will learn how to set up a safe workspace
- Gain an understanding of pigments, mediums and solvent
- Ability to develop an underpainting, and working fat over lean
- Mix colors using a limited palette of colors.
- Composition
Activities/Class Plan –
Week I:
- Introduction to materials
- Safety in the Studio
- Painting with a limited palette of neutrals
Week II
- Continue Value expanding the palette
- Developing an underpainting wipe out method
Week III
- Moving from Value into Color
- Setting up a palette
- Quick studies
Week IV
- Rule of Thirds
- Composition
- Color still life
Week V
- How to set up a still life
- How to paint glass
Week VI
- How to paint colorful whites
Instructor Style: – I have over 30 years of experience teaching Painting and Design at the Community College level. I will be retiring from full time teaching at the college level in December but would like to continue working with artists/students.
I have developed this course to help students understand the variety of materials needed to paint with oil and how to work with the material safely in a studio or home environment. Students will gain the ability to work with oil using traditional methods, including developing an underpainting and working fat over lean. Students will work from direct observation including photos and still life. It is recommended that students have basic drawing skills. Throughout the course, assignments will range from working with a limited palette to build values, before moving onto painting with a full range of colors. Class projects will include how to paint glass and white objects.
Supply list
Surfaces choose one type
- Strathmore Oil painting paper pad 9x12 or 18x24. (Will need drawing board or wood for support on easel)
- Canvas.
- Or canvas board 11 x 14
General oil painting supplies
- Palette
- Gamsol
- Linseed oil or stand oil
- Masters stay wet palette 12 x 16, and glass cut to fit (find precut glass in frame area of Jerry’s)
- Small glass containers with lids
- Large solvent container with brush coil
- Glass scraper
Required colors: Cadmium Yellow light, Cadmium Yellow medium, Yellow Ocher, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna Cadmium Red light. and Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue and Phthalo Blue (Grumbacher brand is best for Phthalo), Titanium White. Ivory Black
Brushes: Natural or synthetic for Oil
- 2 flat. Size 4 and 6
- 2 filberts 4 and 6
- 1 line 2
Paper Towels: Viva
See current work at corinne.Mitchell.391
To contact instructor email: xiehe@aol.com
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