Intermediate Level Class – Painting Dynamic Skies in Oils
November 12 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until December 10, 2024
Tuesdays, November 5 – December 10 | 6 – 9 pm
Students will delight in this five-day class focused on creating dramatic skies for their landscape paintings. Working from photo reference, students will explore creating atmospheric skies and how to handle painting different cloud formations. The class will cover methods to harmoniously balance the sky into their landscape paintings with special attention placed on relationships. This class is the next level for students that have taken any of David’s oil painting classes from the Nevada Museum of Art.
Class Size: 10
5 Day Class
Tuesdays Nov 5 – Dec 10 Time: 6 – 9pm
Age: Adult (15+)
Level: Intermediate
Price: $165
INSTRUCTOR
David McCamant
775-335-5975
SUPPLY LIST
(for students to purchase for class):
- DRAWING – Standard sketching supplies, pencils (HB, 2B – 6B) or black and white markers, small 8” x 10” drawing pad, kneaded and Soap white erasers.
- SUPPORTS – Small to medium size stretched canvas, canvas boards or panels, 9″ x 12″ up to 11″ x 14″ .
- 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
