Finding the Magic in Still Life and Interiors (Online Course) Spring 2023 w/ Kayla Martell
$260.00
March 1 to March 29 (Wednesdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, EST
**All sessions will be recorded; students do not have to be present. Recordings will be available to
students for up to 3 months.
Course Description
In this workshop, we’re going to explore how to capture the magic of light in still life and interiors. We’ll explore the technical techniques behind modelling objects, colour mixing, and composition. I’ll also focus on how we can capture the feeling of our eyes following the light through a painting in brush strokes, translucency, and thickly applied paint.
Course Outline
DAY 1 · Composition and colour mixing - setting up our first still life, drawing, colour mixing, and initial paint application. Homework: Trying your own still life under natural or artificial life.
DAY 2 - Completion of the still life started on previous day, a chance for questions and reviewing concepts learned. Homework: Trying your own still life under natural or artificial life.
DAY 3- Critiques of select artwork together for discussion, and beginning our interior painting using a laundry room. Homework: finding an interior space to paint and initial sketches.
DAY 4- Drawing, colour mixing, and initial paint application specific to interiors, covering additional new techniques such as temperature shifts, light in an interior, and saving your darks. Homework: Your first pass for drawing, colour mixing, and applying under layer for your interior.
DAY 5- Completion of the laundry room painting and associated techniques. Final critiques of everyone's interior will be recorded on video and sent out after completion of course. Homework: Completing your interior painting!
Course Materials List
Paints
· Minimum: three primary colours + white
· Preferred: a warm and cool of each primary colour
· My pallette: Caribbean turquoise, ultramarine blue, dioxide purple, alizarin crimson, cad red, cad orange, cad yellow, lemon yellow, and titantium white. All colours are in the Sennelier brand of paint
Brushes & Tools
· A flexible palette knife for mixing paint on the palette
· A glass, disposable, or similar painting palette, I will be using a grey glass palette
· A medium-large sized flat brush, I will be using a short handle large flat (size 10) and a medium long handle flat (size 5) both from Rosemary & Co synthetic Ivory range
· You may optionally wish for a medium bristle brush, I will be using ultimate filbert from rosemary and co size 4
· Paper towels
· Protective glove for left hand
Lighting
· A light for your easel
· A studio light for your still life setup or access to a window to place your still life in front of
· I use two GVM lights
Canvas
· A stretched canvas or canvas panel
· My canvas will be oil primed using Gamblin oil primer in white
Still Life & interior
· Have some napkin or cloth available for home work practice, as well as any fruit that you can cut up
· Have a place you can use for a few hours inside a house to paint an interior example