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Oil Painting — Still Life With Rob Niezen Tuesday 6:00 - 9:00 pm Material fee $ 20 for gessoed wood panel Course Description From the 15th century to the 19th century oil painting followed the process of glazing many layers of translucent paint. New pigments and the availability of paint in tubes revolutionized painting, and the impressionists started applying colour straight from the tube on canvas. Experimentation continued to deep in the 20th century. In this course we study the different methods in the history of oil painting by painting still life. You will learn about the renaissance techniques of glazing, the colourful approaches of the impressionists and post-impressionists, and conduct experiments of 20th century abstraction. To benefit from this course you need basic knowledge and experience in painting with oils. You can choose to follow the course curriculum to explore your own imagery or style at any point. Course Outline Class 1 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion of renaissance and baroque masters and their basic technique of using coloured grounds, under painting, and glazing to build colour; setting and lighting, composition and subject matter of the still life in the studio. Paint a still life (objects provided): sketch a composition and start transferring to a wood panel (12 x 16” - supplied). Class 2 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion on mediums; still life painting — drawing on canvas, start under painting. Class 3 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion on the palette (colours/pigments) used by renaissance painters: continue still life painting. Class 4 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion creating light in the painting through various approaches, such as chiaroscuro and sfumato: continue still life painting. Class 5 - Renaissance painting techniques — continue still life painting. Class 6 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — examples of painters like Cézanne and Van Gogh; discuss their use of colour and their search of light; start impressionist still life. Bring canvas 16 x 20” or larger. Class 7 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — continue painting. Class 8 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — continue painting. Class 9 – Abstraction — examples of abstract masters like Mondrian and Picasso, ways to achieve abstraction, inspirations, and application of contemporary painting techniques — make

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Oil Painting — Still Life With Rob Niezen

Tuesday 6:00 - 9:00 pm Material fee $ 20 for gessoed wood panel

Course Description From the 15th century to the 19th century oil painting followed the process of glazing many layers of translucent paint. New pigments and the availability of paint in tubes revolutionized painting, and the impressionists started applying colour straight from the tube on canvas. Experimentation continued to deep in the 20th century. In this course we study the different methods in the history of oil painting by painting still life. You will learn about the renaissance techniques of glazing, the colourful approaches of the impressionists and post-impressionists, and conduct experiments of 20th century abstraction.

To benefit from this course you need basic knowledge and experience in painting with oils. You can choose to follow the course curriculum to explore your own imagery or style at any point.

Course Outline Class 1 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion of renaissance and baroque masters and their basic technique of using coloured grounds, under painting, and glazing to build colour; setting and lighting, composition and subject matter of the still life in the studio. Paint a still life (objects provided): sketch a composition and start transferring to a wood panel (12 x 16” - supplied). Class 2 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion on mediums; still life painting — drawing on canvas, start under painting.

Class 3 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion on the palette (colours/pigments) used by renaissance painters: continue still life painting.

Class 4 – Renaissance painting techniques — discussion creating light in the painting through various approaches, such as chiaroscuro and sfumato: continue still life painting.

Class 5 - Renaissance painting techniques — continue still life painting.

Class 6 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — examples of painters like Cézanne and Van Gogh; discuss their use of colour and their search of light; start impressionist still life. Bring canvas 16 x 20” or larger.

Class 7 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — continue painting.

Class 8 – Impressionist and post impressionists painting — continue painting.

Class 9 – Abstraction — examples of abstract masters like Mondrian and Picasso, ways to achieve abstraction, inspirations, and application of contemporary painting techniques — make

studies for abstract painting from still life, and start your abstract painting. Canvas 16 x 20” or larger.

Class 10 – Abstraction — continue to paint your abstract.

Materials

Supports and grounds options: Two or more canvases 16 x 20” or larger.

Palette options: You can use a traditional wooden artists’ palette, or a palette book with disposable pages, wax paper, a piece of wood, board, glass, metal, disposable tin pizza pans. It should be at least 12” x 14”.

Brushes: A variety of flats, brights, rounds; and a good range of sizes. Be sure to have some fine brushes (size 0-000) for detailed work. You can use acrylic/oil painting brushes or watercolour brushes. You will need fine brushes for the renaissance techniques. Hogs hair bristle brushes are good for impasto and impressionistic painting techniques.

Palette knives, rags (paper towel).

Paint: It is necessary to have all the colours of your palette in the 2nd class.

Titanium White Cadmium Red medium Yellow Ochre

Iron Oxide, Mars Black or Ivory Black

Alizarin Crimson Burnt Umber

Cadmium Yellow medium* Pthalo Blue Burnt Sienna

Lemon or Light Yellow* Ultramarine Blue

Optional colours: Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue* Cobalt Violet, Emerald Green, Viridian Green,*

*a less expensive pigment for these colours may be substituted. It will be indicated by the term “hue” after the colour name on the tube, or is sometimes called “Azo”.

Georgian, Winton, Van Gogh, and other student grade paints are acceptable.

Painting Medium:

Bring 2 glass jars with tightly fitting lids to class, have 1 - 2 glass jars at home to recycle mineral spirits. The jar that has “dirty” mineral spirits can be let to settle and carefully poured into a clean jar in a few days. Odorless mineral spirits or Liquin.

Drawing materials: sketch book and pencil crayons - browns and black.

Where to buy your materials:

Victory Art Supplies: 342 Rubidge St. 705-536-3051; Michael’s in Peterborough; Curry’s in Whitby, or order from Curry’s online www.currys.com; Stevenson’s in Scarborough (or order by phone: 416-755-7795).