Swimming-in-Paint "Sunday painters"

 Swimming-in-Paint 2017 info quick link top right sidebar 

If you missed or were not able to do the January (5 session) workshop there is an opportunity to become a "Sunday Painter". We'll offer a special overflow class, (3) Sundays each month for those not able to do the main event workshop.  It will be a wonderful way to spend the day exploring representational painting with like minded painter friends or just try your hand with oil painting. Everyone starts somewhere.

• It will always require a minium of (8) members to make it happen. 

• Open dates are January 8th,15th and 22nd

• 10:00am to 2:30pm 

• Lunch 12:15 to 12:45 - brown bag

• $40.00 per session contact Crossroads to sign-up (804-278-8950)

Painting Fast and Furious

 Swimming-in-Paint 2017 info quick link top right sidebar 

Over the last many weeks, during "Swimming-in-Paint", I worked from a Centurion Oil primed painting pad.

The change from my norm was basically to share ideas quicker with the team. Using a clean glass palette with a small razor blade tool I'm able to show techniques like  "shovel up paint" onto my painting surface more quickly. Keeping my brush clean with a palette knife - collecting paint into a "single working mud pile" continually adjusting it with other colours....not wasting paint or medium or losing a beat to an end goal........a sign off!

Working "fast and furious" is refreshingly liberating and produces expression in the moment.......perhaps the best and most truthful expression of all.

I thought it might be fun to share some fast paced 12x12's with you...... perhaps they will encourage this simple practice of doing quick renderings to elevate paint quality, perfect stronger compositions, painting shapes as opposed to objects and exploring lost and found edges with lots of paint so the composition emerges naturally. Regardless how or what you paint it always deserves a proper painting surface for the intent.

a great oil painting surface

 + cool tools

 + a reference or not

+ some oil colour

 + some time

=

A few might even end up on a wall because these real linen canvas oil painting pads can also be quickly stretched and popped into a frame.

A small touch of colour and a scale change effectively allow the eye to rest and then lead on.

SWIMING-IN-PAINT 2017

My painting method is direct

based on molding shapes, depicting light and shadow. Broad base at the beginning and continually refined (not over worked) until the desired effect is achieved or until the energy dissipates.....always the time to stop or sign off! 

chuck larivey

SWIMMING-IN-PAINT 2017 will be different than last. The team will sign-up a month at a time as opposed to the open single sessions we did in 2016. Each month will have (5) full sessions, (3)  Saturday sessions will be devoted to painting small practice works concluding with a great (2) day large format Saturday & Sunday session.

Choose your own subject, focus on it for the month.....learn and study it, with plenty of small quickly related small practice studies that revolve around your chosen subject. The idea is to get comfortable painting shapes, gestures and the colour, light and shadow rhythms that best represent your subject and painting intent.

During the week, binge on it, go online, look and study other examples that might be useful in your own work. Come in Saturday with a painting plan of what you expect to accomplish.....block the time and execute your plan.

IMPORTANT

• At sign-up indicate your "subject preference" for the month - related references will be available or combine them with your own to form personal painting ideas.

• Choose a single standard small works study size for the month (8x10, 12x12 or 11x14) Recommended Supplier: Jerry's, Centurion Oil Primed smooth linen, pads, panels or stretched canvas. Note: Linen pads can be mounted or stretch if worthy of wall space and the most economical surface to use for this type of work.

The last Saturday and Sunday session will apply everything learned from our small works to create a wonderful final work on a large format stretched linen canvas. (size determined by team member)

This process will be repeated each month throughout 2017  (Excluding December)

 Team limited to 10
fee $200
(Printed material list available at sign-up)

Contact Crossroads Art Center to reserve your space

804-278-8950

2017 SCHEDULE - 1ST QUARTER

CLASS ROOM (1) UNLESS NOTED

January 7, 14 ,21 , 28, 29(Sunday)

February 4, 11, 18, 25, 26(Sunday)

March 4, 11(Classroom 2), 18 , 25, 26(Sunday)

 

BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION

5X7 References will be available or bring your own

• Brown bag or order lunch from Gretchen's before class. The lunch table is a wonderful time to chat and study our progress.

SUPPLY LIST

• JERRY'S - Centurion double primed oil linen canvas pads for quick learning studies (20x16 shown)

 ALTERNATE

• JERRY'S - Centurion smooth stretched oil primed linen canvas. Excellent value and can be purchased by the box of (6) or share the cost with fellow team members. 
  http://www.jerrysartarama.com/canvas-surfaces/stretched-canvas/centurion
  
  

• Royal soft grip brushes (SG4500 Series) available at $3.00 each.

#10, # 8, #6 & #4 Royal soft grip SG4520 Filbert (rounded flat)

#12, #8 & #4 Royal soft grip SG4510 Bright (flat)

 PURCHASE A DOZEN AND SAVE!

Direct link to brushes - scroll down to the SG4500 series

• Glass palette - old picture frame glass works with a white sheet of paper and a cardboard backing or foam core with blue taped edges to hold it all together.

• Flexible palette knives similar to the those shown

• Small light weight paint scraper - available from hardware & paint stores

 

(16x20 shown)

• Paper towels (3 or 4 sheets folded into quarters or halves)

• Clean cotton rags - (cut up old cotton Tee shirts and white socks work well)

• Odorless mineral spirits - at least 8 oz.

OIL PAINT

Basic palette

• Neo Megilp oil painting medium (Gamblin)

• Titanium White - fast drying Griffin alkyd (Winsor & Newton)

• Naples yellow

• Lemon yellow

• Cadmium Yellow medium

• Cadmium Orange

• Cadmium Red

• Permanent green light

• Sap green

• Chromium Oxide or green oxide

•  Cerulean Blue

• French Ultramarine Blue

• Dioxazine Purple

• Alizarin Crimson

• Permanent Rose

 SPECIAL OIL COLOURS

Specialty colours I always share.
 

• Alizarin Orange (Williamsburg)

• Sevres Blue (Williamsburg)

• Ultramarine Blue French (Williamsburg) 

• Provence Violet Bluish (Williamsburg)

• Persian Rose (Williamsburg)

• Cadmium Vermilion (Williamsburg)

• Cadmium Yellow Lemon (Michael Harding)

• Unbleached Titanium Pale (Williamsburg)

NOTE: Bring all your colours - I share all my colours - if a special colour works for you then buy it.

I don't normally use earth colours or black but I have them just in case.

Water based oils seems to work with regular oil paints and medium (Neo Megilp)