Painting in Oils, Focusing on Colour
Sat, July 11 - Tues, July 14
9am - 3:30pm
Instructor: Susan Madsen
Early Bird Fee: $396 + GST (EXTENDED TO MONDAY JUNE 15TH)
Regular Fee: $440 + GST
Supply fee: $20 + GST
Supplies as per list
Download a pdf of the Course info
Course Description:
“ To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life’s blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime. As the decades go by, a painters life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thickness of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.” James Elkins
This course will focus on various oil painting techniques including: “alla prima”(wet on wet), grisaille, glazing, impasto,using coloured grounds and a pallet knife. Artists will be given the opportunity to experiment with various painting mediums and encouraged to try different tactile approaches to creating with oil.
There will also be a secondary focus on the theory, symbolism and psychology of colour. We will discuss optical effects of colour, historical and cultural meaning, and discover our personal interpretations and relationships to colour.
Bring some drawings you may want to work from, or some fascinating objects from nature or elsewhere. Painting outdoors will be encouraged if weather permits.
Though some experience in drawing and painting will be helpful, this course is suitable for beginner or experienced artists with an interest in painting with oils.
Supplies list:
Supports – (must be pre-primed)
8 - primed canvas boards, (ex. Winsor & Newton canvas Board – Opus)
or primed canvas on stretcher,
or primed cardboard
or primed canvas pad sheets (ex. Phoenix Canvas pad – Opus)
**bring clips and a drawing board if using canvas pad or cardboard**
Sizes: 10 x 10” to 16 x 16” and any shapes in between
Oil Paints
Minimum basic set:
Titanium White
Black
Yellow (Cadmium Yellow/Hue or Hansa Yellow or Lemon Yellow)
Red ( Cadmium Red Light/Hue or Napthol Scarlet )
Blue (Ultramarine or Indanthrone or Phthalo Blue)
A few other good additions:
Viridian Green
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Cerulean Blue
Sap Green
Naples yellow
Burnt Umber
And bring what you have.
Or consider a boxed set of 10 different colours – two examples from Opus:
Winton Basic Set or Georgian Oil
Brushes
Bring the bushes you have. If you need to buy brushes I can suggest the following:
1 – Flat or Bright (short haired flat) Bristle Brush Size 10 or 12
1 – Flat or Bright (short haired flat) Bristle Brush Size 6 or 8
1 - Round Bristle Size 4 – 8
1- inexpensive, (hardware store) brush for acrylic basecoat ( 1 – 2’’ flat)
Options: Filberts, Smaller bright or round brushes for detail , softer synthetic brushes
Or consider from Opus: Hog Bristle Brush Set from Winsor & Newton is suitable for use with oils.
This set contains size 3 Round, size 8 Filbert, size 8& 10 Flat, size 10 Short Flat and size 3 Fan. ($18.06)
Oil Painting palette
Traditional wood handheld, small piece of glass (approx. 12 x 12”) or disposable paper palette
Painting Knife – regular size such as Liquitex #10 and bring any others you may have
Drawing material – Charcoal, pencil, paper
Jars or tin cans with lids
Lint free painting rags
Susan will supply: Turpentine, Mineral spirits, Painting mediums, Acrylic paint for grisaille and base coat
Bio
Susan is a Vancouver based figurative artist. She holds an MFA in painting, having worked passionately with oils for the last 20 years. Her meticulous style is informed by the study of art history and the figure, while her love of travel brings the influence of northern European painting and Indian miniatures to her work. She has worked in the theatre as a set designer, and has been an active board member of CARFAC BC for many years. Susan has shown her work across Canada, in the USA and Europe and is currently represented by Pacini Lubel gallery in Seattle. www.susanmadsen.com
Events Included:
~Friday, July10, 7pm: Welcome Reception - IMA Gallery (2323 Pooley Street) -Meet your instructor and pick up your student information packages.
~Saturday, July 11, 5:30pm: Student BBQ - IMA Gallery, free for students, $5 for guests
~Saturday, July 11, 7pm: Artist Talk - Susan Madsen, IMA Gallery, by donation
~Sunday, July 12, 7pm: Video Screening – Reel Youth Film Festival, School, by donation
~Monday, July 13, 7pm: Literary Reading - Richard Somerset Mackie and students, IMA Gallery, by donation
IMA students also receive free admission to Barkerville Historic Town and many discounts to local businesses.
Island Mountain Arts School Policies
- Registration: A (non refundable) deposit is payable upon registration. Final payment is due no later than seven days before a course begins. Please add 5% GST to adult courses.
- The registration deadline is two weeks before class start. Registrations will be taken after that date, space permitting.
- Refund: There are no refunds on course deposits. If full payment has been made, and a student withdraws from a course, 75% of the workshop fee will be refunded. Note - there are no refunds the final week before classes begin.
- Cancellation Policy: If Island Mountain Arts cancels a course due to insufficient registration, the entire fee will be refunded. Cancellation decisions are made two weeks before course start.
Island Mountain Arts
Box 65, Wells, BC V0K 2R0
1-800-442-2787 or 250-994-3466
Fax: 250-994-3433
info@imarts.com
www.imarts.com