This is a 2 day workshop Tuesday & Wednesday.
Artists will choose a subject that includes trees, water, and sky and Tom will go over the importance of composing your chosen scene. Begin with a monochromatic painting in acrylics.
Tom will help everyone come up with a workable composition before the lunch break everyone should have a basic light and dark composition worked out.
After lunch Tom will demo with a full color palette in oils using glazing and scumbling and just “drawing with paint”.
Tom hopes to complete at least one finished oil painting by the end of the day’s session.
Tom Sadler Plein Air Supply List
- Oil Paints — Oils preferred but acrylics are acceptable as well.
Colors – Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Pale or Light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Transparent Oxide Red or Burnt Sienna.
These are all that you really need but more colors are fine if you have them especially any green such as Viridian, Winsor Green, or Prussian Green. - Canvas – 2 or 3 stretched canvases or gessoed panels at least 11″ x
- 14″ and up to 16″ x 20″.
- Brushes – Filberts and Flats recommended and various sizes from #2’s up to # 10 or #12.
- Charcoal – Several sticks of thin Vine Charcoal and a medium charcoal pencil and a kneaded eraser. *
- Palette – Any wooden or plastic palette or tearaway palette for mixing paint.
- Paint Thinner – Odorless Mineral Spirits preferred.
- Paper Towels – And a couple of soft cotton cloths. *
- Palette Knife – Optional for mixing paint. *
- Spray Fixitive – Keeps your drawing intact. *
- Easel – A French easel or some outdoor easel. I will have a couple of extras.
- An umbrella that clips onto your easel is optional but it is helpful to be able to keep your canvas in shadow rather than in direct sunlight.
- Small mirror.*
• • * All supplies with the asterisk * means that I will have this on hand in case you are without it.
Abstract portrait acrylic portrait Workshop with Corey Moortgat
Corey Moortgat is a Jacksonville portrait artist who specializes in abstract, colorful portraiture. She loves to push the boundaries with color and brushstrokes. Love blending? Love realistic skin tones? Then this class is NOT for you! We’re here to get abstract and have some fun!
http://www.coreymoortgat.com/
Supplies:
Here are Amazon links for the supplies, or obviously they are available at online or local art stores as well!
Brushes
Palette Knife
Sta-wet Palette
Water Cup
Dioxazine Purple
Cadmium Orange
Titanium White
This class is about painting the beauty of the still life and capturing the essence of light, form and composition. It is about careful observation of the light source and establishing an interesting composition while emphasizing a focal point. Students will see, understand and interpret light; the quiet shadows and soft light that create form and texture.
They will work towards a completed painting in the time allowed. The class will help the students develop a natural and convincing approach to painting a still life. We will discuss mixing colors, composition, value, form and a variety of processes and techniques. Emphasis will be placed on accurate drawing and “energetic, logical, exciting beginnings.”
Gradual refinement will lead to a convincing finish. Resolution of the painting is encouraged as time permits but not necessary. This class will also increase the individual’s awareness of the materials and the creative process in painting while developing personal goals and establishing aesthetic sensibility. Directions will be given on “getting started,” setting up the palette, planning, mixing color, observing the subject and the importance of establishing good painting habits and procedures.
The materials list is only a guideline. Feel free to bring what you are used to and comfortable with.
Are you using watercolor to its fullest potential? Explore the many wonderful effects and possibilities that only this medium can give you. Understand the unique properties of your pigments, and how you can push them to achieve new combinations and textures. In this workshop, you will learn how to loosen up, and go beyond merely copying an image to thinking about the “WHAT IF’S” that can make a painting extraordinary. Students will be encouraged to bring various potential ideas for their paintings as a starting point, and the instructor will discuss potential directions and design. Instructor will provide various supplies and implements for mark making. This class is for “Fearless” Advanced Beginners and Intermediate students.
BIO: Art has always been a part of my soul. I am the daughter of an artist and the mother to one, and have done some form of art for as long as I can remember.
I spent 20 years as an Advertising Agency owner, and worked both on the creative and business side. It was not until I sold the agency and my children were grown that I could pursue my art full-time. Since that time, I have concentrated on working in watercolor for the past 25 years, and have studied with many modern-day masters in the medium. My work reflects a love of color and light, and my subjects depict things that interest me from my journey through life.
I am a signature member and Past President for the Florida Watercolor Society, and a past Board member for Central Florida Watercolor Society. In 2019, I was honored to be juried into membership with the Whiskey Painters of America, a national miniature watercolor painting society.
I am a Resident Artist of the Leesburg Art Center, located in downtown Leesburg, Florida.
www.jmolsick.com www.facebook.com/jackiimolsickfineart
352-459-3585.
Paints:
- Any quality tube paint such as Winsor Newton, Holbein, Schminke, American Journey (still available online), DaVinci or Daniel Smith; Cotman and Reeves paints are not recommended because they have a smaller pigment-to-water ratio; results are not good with these paints. Please, NO PAN or Half Pan paints.
- Aureolin (DaVinci or Daniel Smith recommended; Winsor-Newton is not)
- Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade) (any brand above)
- Pthalo Blue or Winsor Blue (Winsor Newton)
- Cobalt Blue (Winsor Newton)
- Permanent Rose (any brand above)
- Nice to have: Burnt Scarlet, Raw Sienna, Mineral Violet, New Gamboge (not WN), Sap Green (Holbein), Transparent Orange (Schminke); and bring any of your other colors that you wish.
Paper:
- 140 lb. hot-press paper (Stonchenge only)
- 140 lb. cold-press paper (Arches is preferred, Fabriano or Hahnemuhle). A full sheet, which is a better value for the money, which we will divide into halves and quarters, depending on subject matter. Please stay away from 90 lb. paper!!! Please DO NOT BUY STRATHMORE or Master’s Touch pad paper in 90 or 140lb! You won’t be happy with the results. Brushes: For this class, I recommend synthetic or synthetic/natural hair brushes. Winsor Newton, Princeton, Silver Brush all make good quality, mid-priced brushes. Cheap brushes tend to lose hair as you paint and are a real frustration.
- Rounds: 12 OR 14; Nice to have: #14 Ultra Round Flats: 1″ and 1-1/2″ wash brush Rigger for fine lines
- Cat Tongue (also called Oval Wash) Silver Black Velvet I” is nice to have
Other Necessary Items: 4 x 6″ or 5 x 7″ rectangles for this purpose) Palette (Useful: a LARGE White Plastic Palette, small ones will not work for this class because we will be making large puddles) Watercolor Support Board Adjustable Mist Sprayer (A fine mist is ok but not ideal) Paper Towels Masking Tape Water containers (I use one for rinse water, one for fresh mixing; the larger, the better). Cheap Mechanical Pencil and a white or kneaded eraser Serap watercolor paper for value studies (I cut up my old or unsuccessful paintings into
Betty McKee is an Atlanta-born artist, coming to the Jacksonville area with her husband’s Naval service. Her interest in art emerged from a desire to illustrate Clay County churches and historical sites in pen and ink. She accompanied these drawings with hand-lettering. Seeking to learn better letterforms and to encourage others to put Scripture on the walls of their homes, she studied calligraphy and began a cottage industry called The Inkspot.
She attended two international calligraphic
conferences, was engaged in a year-long study with Reggie Ezell, and studied with noted calligraphers at local workshops as well as studies in related arts. She was a founding member of the Calligrapher’s
Calligraphy Guild in Jacksonville.
Betty taught calligraphy for a number of years at JoAnn’s stores, developing an 8-week program of study for adults. She also taught calligraphy at several of art festivals at local public schools in Clay and Duval Counties. While a member of the Calligrapher’s Guild, she created, designed and implemented a teaching program in calligraphy for the elementary students for the Clay and Duval Picture Lady Programs. The teaching program, called Project Calligraphy, was presented and adopted by larger state calligraphy organization with the intent for a broader application. Speedball used this project as a prototype for launching a national approach to teaching calligraphy called Elegant Writing:
Calligraphy in the Classroom.
Betty’s services have been employed by such major corporations and places as Lockheed, GMAC, NAS, Jacksonville, Wendy’s, and JoAnn’s Etc., and such civic organizations as the Jacksonville Historical Society, St. Augustine Junior League and churches. Betty’s calligraphic works have been
exhibited locally and regionally at galleries and museums, and are displayed in many homes. Her greatest pleasure has been in creating a repertoire of seasonal Christian processional banners for her church.
The Art of Calligraphy as an art form has an advantage over other visual arts in that it
communicates precisely what the artist wishes to express in language. And the
calligrapher must be true to the text, that is, faithful to the author. Thus, a presentation is only an embellishment of what the author is believed to be saying.
—Betty McKee.
SUPPLY LIST: The instructor will supply the calligraphy pen (felt-tipped chisel edge pen), exemplars (sample
worksheets) and paper materials. The students will have the use of a special calligraphic art
board and be given instructions on its construction.
Supplies Needed from the Student
¾ or 1” Masking tape
Pen and notebook for taking notes (a spiral notebook OR a 3-ring binder such as a duo-tang and
notebook paper)
A small black pointed marker such as a Pigma Micron, Pilot Precise V5, Sharpie Fine Pen, etc.
Mechanical pencil with a small lead such as a Paper Mate Sharpwriter #2
Metal ruler (18” or longer)
T-square (18” or longer)
Triangle (12” plastic 30-60-90)
Protractor 12” rolling ruler (on Amazon)
Scissors
X-acto knife
Glue Stick
A bulldog clip or bankers clip
A packet OR your own collection of monoline (small pointed) markers for our project. You may
want to bring additional markers (broad ones)and/or calligraphic), watercolors.
Your own chair or cushion, if you prefer.