Description
This class uses footage from Term 2-21
Date : May 18th – June 15th
Length: 5 Weeks
Videos Uploaded: Thursdays at 12pm PST
Level : Beginner
This class will function as a great precursor to portrait painting, and oil painting in general.
We will be using the skull as a subject to learn both the structure of the human head as well as the fundamental methods of oil painting. Topics covered in this class will be basic head proportions and structure, basic painting materials, the four key pallets of oil painting, as well as basic understanding of how to use them. Great for beginners and artists just looking to get better understanding of oil painting
Materials
- Painting Surface
- Pre-Stretched Canvas: Fredrix brand, red or green label
- Canvas Panels: Fredrix brand
- Sizes: 9” x 12” up to 16” by 20”
- Brushes
- Assortment of rounds, filberts and flats in sable and bristle
- Solvent
- Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits by Gamblin (only brand allowed at school; NO EXCEPTIONS)
- Container for Gamsol
- Brush Cleaner
- Dr. Bronner’s Soap (can be found at Trader Joe’s, CVS Pharmacy or Henry’s)
- Palette
- Wood, plastic, or glass (Please be sure the glass is safely secure in a container.)
- Paints
- Level 1: Pickout
- Burnt Umber
- Level 2: Burnt umber direct
- Titanium white
- Burnt Umber
- Level 3: Zorn
- Titanium white
- Yellow ochre
- Ivory Black
- Cad Red Light
- Level 4: Warm/Cool
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Lemon
- Cadmium yellow deep
- Cad Red lIght
- Alizarin Crimson permanent
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ivory Black
- Level 1: Pickout
- Miscellaneous
- Roll of paper towels
Brushes:
Bristle (flats or filberts), ranging from a ¼ inch to 1 inch in size.
Small to medium sized (round) sable brushes.
Robert Simmons Signet for bristles and Princeton Summit 6100F for sables, but any moderately priced decent quality brush will do.
Erik Gist
Erik M. Gist received his B.A. from SDSU in 1998. He began studying with Jeff Watts in 1996, three years later he began to teach and has done so ever since. Erik has worked in the video game industry as a concept designer and 3-D artist and is now working as a freelance illustrator. Erik’s clients include Marvel Comics, D.C. Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Disney, Audible, Wizards of the Coast, Upperdeck, Boom! Studios, Palladium Books, Blizzard Entertainment, Viking Childrens Books, Monkey Brain Books, Quart Publishing, and Chiat-Day. His work can be seen in Spectrum: the best in fantastic art including a nomination in 2018, and Aphrodesia: art of the female form 1 . Along with a Spectrum nomination, he has been nominated for an Illie Award, a Pulp Ark Award, a Chesley Award, and multiple Horror Comic Awards including one win. For more information about Erik’s art please visit his website at www.erikgist.com.
