Description
Instructor Critiques for Full Participation Students will be uploaded for viewing approximately one week after each class.
This class uses demo footage from the Spring 2021 term.
Date : Jul 14 – Aug 11
Length: 5 Weeks
Videos Uploaded: Thursday at 12pm PT.
Level : All Levels Welcome
Working on canvas or canvas panels ranging from 4”x6” to5”x7” and 8”x10” we will work towards capturing gesture and emotion rather than rendering. Paintings will be executed in 15, 20 and 30 minute sessions.
Emphasis will be on the indication of color notes and value control. This class is designed to help painters develop a more “juicy” style of painting alla prima.
When purchasing materials, note that you do not need every brush and size, just get a good variety of small, medium and large brushes in bristle (stiff hair) and sables (soft hair).
Materials
- Surfaces
- Masonite, Hardboard or Canvas
- Brushes
- Variety of Rounds/Flats/Filbert
- Size 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
- Preferred Brands: Robert Simmons Signet or Rosemary
- Variety of Rounds/Flats/Filbert
- Cleaning
- Solvent: Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits by Gamblin
- Solvent container
- Masters Brush Soap
- Palette (various options)
- Wood
- Plastic
- Sealable Masterson Palette with glass in bottom (recommended)
- Paints (Preferred Brand: Gamblin, Da Vinci, Windsor and Newton)
- Level 1: Monochrome Palette
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black (Or burnt umber)
- Level 2: Zorn Palette
- Cadmium Red
- Yellow Ochre
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black
- Level 3: Warm/Cool Palette
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black
- Cadmium Red
- Alizarin Crimson Permanent
- Cobalt Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Level 1: Monochrome Palette
- Miscellaneous:
- Roll of paper towels
Meadow Gist
Meadow Gist has studied and taught at Watts Atelier for the past 15 years. She began her art career in the corporate field painting displays and murals for a major retail chain. Her work has been exhibited as a finalist in the International Artist Magazine’s Still Lifes and Florals Competition 2006 and as a “Top 50” selection at Salon International 2007. Meadow is represented by Willow Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. You can find more information on Meadow’s work at www.meadowgist.com.
