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Intermediate Level – Building a Great Painting in Oils
April 2 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Tuesday, repeating until May 7, 2024
Tuesdays, April 2 – May 7 | 9 am – 12 pm
This 6 week, 18-hour course is your doorway to creating dynamic compositions through studying the approach of the masters. Students will learn how to orchestrate composition, staging, value, color, design and mood to take their paintings to the next level. The class will change the way the student approaches their work. This class is the next level for students that have taken any of David’s oil painting classes from the Nevada Museum of Art.
INSTRUCTOR
David McCamant
775-335-5975
SUPPLY LIST
(for students to purchase for class):
- REFERENCE IMAGES – Bring copies of your BEST images. You can either have them printed on quality photo paper (matte is recommended and please do not use regular bond paper) or use your ipad or any other tablet. These images must be of subjects you are excited to paint!
- SUPPORTS – Bring whatever supports you would like, stretched canvas or canvas boards or panels from 9 x 12 inches up to about 18 x 24 inches. You might wish to have a few small, study size panels as well.
- SKETCHBOOK – A small easy to carry sketchbook and whatever handy drawing implement works for you. I use Prismacolor double-ended markers in 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% warm gray and black. I also use a mechanical 0.7 mm pencil.
- OIL PAINT – One (1) – 37 ml tube of ARTIST quality oil paint of each color, RED, MAGENTA (optional), YELLOW, BLUE, CYAN (optional), BLACK and WHITE. I recommend Gamblin oil colors. If you are on a tight budget, you might try Windsor Newton Winton or Grumbacher Academe student oil colors.
- RED – Cadmium Red Medium
- MAGENTA (optional) – Quinacridone Red
- YELLOW – Hansa Yellow Medium
- BLUE – Ultramarine Blue
- CYAN (optional) – Phthalo Blue
- BLACK – Ivory Black
- WHITE – Titanium White
- Two (2) – 37 ml tubes or One (1)- 150 ml tube
- PAINTING MEDIUM – Neo MeGilp Medium 2oz or Larger
- BRUSHES – Artist quality long handled filberts sizes #2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. You can use either bristle or quality synthetic brushes accept soft white synthetics.
- PALETTE – Gray Matters, palette paper or equivalent
- CLEANING JAR – Silicoil cleaning jar or other small jar with lid
- CLEANING SOLUTION – 1 – 8oz bottle of artist grade Safflower oil
- BRUSH CLEANER – 2.5 OZ small cake of The Masters Brush Cleaner
- PAPER TOWELS – 1 roll of BLUE shop paper towels (OPTIONAL – add one more for homework)
- WET PANEL CARRIER – inexpensive cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil or aluminum roasting pan for wet painting transport
