oil painting alla prima
Saturday 19 September
10am-4pm, $65
Venue: Horowhenua Art Society,
119 Bath Street, Levin
Enrolments close 17 September
This workshop is all about keeping it simple and straight forward and is suitable for complete beginners or experienced! We’ll be working alla prima, which means we complete a painting in one sitting using only the paint with no additives such as turps or linseed oil. So throw your fears aside, I’m going to show you how to work freely and really push that paint around to create bold, painterly artworks that really takes advantage of what oil paint offers you! Your choice of subject and style with Black, White, Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow being provided. You can use just these colours for the day if you wish or bring your own as well to increase your palette options.
This is a hands on class that won't load lot's of unnecessary 'rules' on you, but give you real freedom to create in oil paint with confidence and simplicity!
Limited to 12 places
What to bring:
Palette (non-absorbent), two A4 or larger canvas panels or canvas pad, paint brushes.
Whatever colour oils you have.
Please also refer to the Materials List below for more in-depth info.
If you have any questions about what to bring/purchase please get in touch.
Age Suitability
While this is an adults drawing class, students high school and older are welcome enrol if the parent/guardian is confident they are mature enough to attend.
Oil Painting Alla Prima Materials List
You are welcome to bring whatever oil paint you may already have, regardless of the quality or colours and you can use them no problem.
Provided for the class will be Black, White, Phthalo Blue, Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow. If you wish you can use just these colours for the day.
Things you will need to bring:
Palette:
Something non-absorbent such as glass, plastic or an old dinner plate and approximately A4 in surface area.
Brushes:
3-4 medium size flat synthetic brushes would be good and anything else you may have, bring them along (choice is a good thing). Plus a small plastic bag.
To Paint on to:
A4 or larger canvas panel is ideal and I’d suggest bring at least two. They’re relatively cheap and ready to go. We can’t paint onto un-sealed/primed surfaces such as paper or card, unless it is primed. It needs to be a non-absorbent surface. Whatever you decide to bring just make sure they are no smaller than A4 size.
Please don’t bring turps. We don’t need it and some people don’t react well to it. I’ll explain brush cleaning options on the day.
Palette Knife:
A palette knife can be useful for mixing your colour on the palette and fun to explore to apply the paint. Not necessary but useful to have.
If you are buying paints the list below is what I recommend as a good starting kit. This isn’t a compulsory list, more of a guide as to what I suggest are a group of very useful colours that will cover many bases.
The Paint: 37mm oil paint tubes as set out below.
Paynes Grey (or Black)
Titanium White
Cadmium Red
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Umber
Phthalo Blue
Cadmium Yellow
Windsor & Newton ‘Winton’ range can be purchased from Warehouse Stationary, Whitcoulls or ordered online from Gordon Harris and should be around $14 a 37mm tube.
Daler Rowney ‘Georgian’ Oil Paints are a little cheaper again and are online at Hobbyland for around $10.50 each.
These are student grade oil but are still reasonable quality and much cheaper than artist grade paint. If you have or get artist quality paints, then even better.
Don’t buy super cheap oil paint (such as Reeves or Maries) or a whole set of colours. It’s better to buy specific colours that you’ll get good use out of rather than end up with some colours you don’t really need or use and not enough of the ones you do. The cheap paint is rubbish and won’t give you a very good painting experience or results.
If there’s anything at all you’re unsure about, please get in touch.