Description

Celebrating Color with the Palette Knife and Morew/Cynthia RosenMarch 10 and 11


Clean colors enrich any painting, no matter the style. The focus of this workshop is on creating intentional colors and color relationships in your work whether you choose to paint abstractly, representationally or impressionistically. The premise being that an image is a reflection of one’s interests, vision, personality and goals. Whether you want to hone representational skills, work on abstracting, or just explore with some guidance, this workshop will provide the opportunity to learn more about color mixing, color application and color relationships in the process with the aim of producing solid work/s within the confines of a 2 day workshop.
I went from tight representational drawings to abstraction and now to more impressionistic paintings. Where will you go with your painting? The format is individualized to reinforce basic skills for some while challenging technical prowess for others.
Tools range from the brush to the palette knife and spatchers/wedges. While all medium are invited, the workshop is particularly geared to those working in oils or acrylics. Through the use of these less traditional tools one can lay a new foundation for enhancing one's painting, imbuing it with vibrant colors and discovering a broad range of textures and shortcuts.
Day 1: still lifesDay 2: still lifes or works from what is around you or your own photo. Suggested supplies:2+ primed painting surfaces approx 12x16" or larger I like 16x20 or larger for these tools. Ifyour preference is to paint small, you will need to have the appropriate sized tools. I like ampersand gessobord, but canvas, mounted oil paper, etc is up to you.
Colors - a guideline: lemon yellow, cadmium yellow medium, cad orange, red (cad or napthol), alizarin permanent, purple dioxizine, ultramarine blue, thalo blue, titanium zinc white optional fun colors: magenta, transparent orange, cobalt teal, radiant blue or equivalent.Please note: all sorts of blacks and greys can be created from these colors but feel free to add black if you wish. I tend not to buy black, greens or browns but prefer to mix my own from the above palette. brushes - my preference is flat brushes size 7 and 11 palette paper and/or Masterson Stay Wet palette boxes (pizza, raymar, etc) for transporting wet workpalette knife: I suggest RGM size 50 or similar for large or smaller surfaces.Spatchers and/or Princeton Catalyst Wedge (Grey) from Jerry's Artarama, DickBlick or Amazonpainting medium (and retarder if using acrylics!) and containerrags for clean-up (I discourage paper towels due to fire hazard with oil solvents optional: still life objects if you wish to bring some of your ownoptional: photos you want to use as reference for day 2 if so desired
Questions: email me at cynthiarosenart@gmail.com

Instructor

Cynthia Rosen