A 3-day workshop, held August 7-9, 2024 10 am - 3:30 pm

If you've been painting with acrylics for some time or are new to the medium, this class is designed for you. You'll dive right into exploring this versatile medium. Experienced painters will enhance their skills with my insights on acrylic techniques, while newcomers will develop a strong foundation. All skill levels will gain experience in landscape painting and design. Please arrive an hour early on the first day to set up, as we'll be diving in right away.

First Day & 1/2: The Source of Light and portraying volume and perspective.

We will practice blending colors and adjusting values with acrylic paint. This will be done on basic elements of a landscape, such as trees, bushes, rocks, water, hills and mountains etc. Aerial perspective and linear perspective and integrating a light source will help you bring life to your landscape. Prepare an interesting ground and plan a landscape painting. We will use a variety of neutrals to vary color andvalues. Photos will be provided to practice from or you can bring your own. Painting exercises can be performed on watercolor paper or canvas paper.

2 nd Afternoon and 3 rd Day - Create your own Landscape.

We will compose and paint a landscape with some architecture using two modified colors.

Plan a color scheme that pulls your painting together using analogous color to move the eye and contrast to make your work pop. There will be extra photocopies if you want to paint the same subject as me, or you can bring your own. Start your painting on a canvas 16” x 20” or larger or 140 lb watercolor paper.

We focus on the basics of painting and integrate into what we are work on. The goal of this workshop is to give you techniques and skills that will help you design and create paintings on your own. Design will be used to assist with creative problem solving.   Lesson plans are very simple, yet useful.  I encourage you to have an open mind and a willingness to learn. Students are welcome to bring in examples of both their favorite paintings as well as works they want help with. Keep some scraps of watercolor paper handy so I can personally show you some ways to solve problems.

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The workshop is August 7-9 Each student will get their own 6 foot table to work on, and may leave their supplies there overnight. You have the choice of staying in one of the Nome guest rooms or coming just for the class time. They also have an onsite chef that provides amazing meals. There are 11 guest rooms with private bathrooms. Workshop price includes paint and medium.

START WITH THE STUFF YOU HAVE: 

Please bring your favorite supplies including a: variety of brushes “longer bristle, flats, angled flats; filberts give needed flexibility to paint in acrylic brushes a bright can be useful (see recommended sizes below). Bring a water container, any tools you like and a

palette knife, paper towels, cut a t-shirt into squares, and an apron. If you prefer to stand, bring your own easel and a gator board or plexi-glass is helpful. Many items can be substituted and old brands of paints can be used up before buying new. I will have some supplies available for purchase.

Bring: photographs you have taken to paint from, paper towels, masking tape, a quart size water jug, #2 pencil, 1 1/2” varnish style brush, cut up a t-shirt into rags.

SUPPLIES: 

Specified brands are used by Ellen. Feel comfortable using the brands you currently have. Ellen will provide Golden Fluid Acrylics, Mediums and a few tube colors. Feel welcome to use/bring heavy body acrylics or any of your favorite acrylic paints.

12” x16” Masterson palette and disposable palette sheets white or gray

1-2 sheets Arches 140# cold press watercolor paper, or canvas paper

1 stretched canvas, 12” x 18” to 24” x 36” (any shape)

Brushes: Princeton Umbria Filberts sizes 2, 4, 8, Princeton ½” Angular shader,

Winsor and Newton (WN) Artists’ Acrylic Flat #8, WN 530 Script, palette knife

Generals Sketch and Wash water-soluble graphite pencils ( Dick Blick or Amazon)

9 x 12 Drawing Pad, Eraser, Metallic markers or General’s Sketch and Wash Pencil.

Recommended Mediums:

Liquitex Matt Medium, Holbein painting medium, Golden Soft Gel Gloss, Gesso Paints Golden Fluid Acrylics (can substitute with tube colors or Heavy Body acrylics): Minimum Palette: 1ml bottle each– Primary Cyan, Primary Yellow, Primary, Magenta, Naples Yellow Hue, Titan Buff, Mars Black, N5 Neutral Grey, N7 Neutral Grey,

4ml bottle of Titanium White,

Other colors Ellen likes: Cerulean Blue, Indian Yellow, Diarylide Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Pyrrole Orange, Cobalt Blue, Pthalo Blue, Pthalo Green, Permanent Green Light, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Rose, Cobalt Turquoise, Quinacradone Magenta, Green Gold, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Open Brand: Titan Green Pale, Ultramarine, Ultramarine Blue, Light Ultramarine Blue, Titan Green Pale, Sennelier: Rose Chair Blush

Plus**Additional colors and unnecessary favorites: 

Permanent Violet Dark Manganese Blue Hue Light Violet Turquoise (Pthalo)

Pyrrole Red Cerulean Blue deep Transparent Red Oxide

Raw Sienna Holbein Compose Blue#2 Light Magenta

Are there Materials you want to try: If you have these things on hand and want to work with them please bring along so they are handy. Brayers, razor blades, Speedball cut easy Blocks, Speedball linoleum cutter, metallic paints, collage items.

Your Instructors and the Nome Schoolhouse do much to prepare for your arrival. To honor the work that we put towards your place in the class there is a firm time frame around when and how refunds are given. Tickets may be transferred to another person upon approval by the Nome Schoolhouse.

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