Beginning Oil Painting

 

 

Class: Beginning Oil Painting

Instructor: Mark Christopher

Medium: Oil

Date(s): Wednesday, November 6, 13, and 20, 2024

Time: 1pm - 4pm

Cost: $160

 

Class Description:

Does exploring a new medium have you shakin' in your apron? Have no fear, Mark C. is here! Despite what you may have heard, oil paints are the most forgiving of all mediums. With the right process, techniques, and materials, anyone can begin to create using the tool artists have been in love with for last 600 or so years. Through demonstrations and examples from history's greatest artists, Mark will demystify oil painting and provide you with only the most pertinent and technically sound advice to begin your path to producing your very own masterpiece.

 

Instructor Biography:

Nationally acclaimed artist and instructor Mark Christopher creates artwork that evokes emotion and inspires his students to do the same. For the past decade, his art has been admired and collected across the US and internationally while regularly being honored by his peers. Though formally trained in physics, his two greatest passions, creating and teaching, have informed and altered his life's journey and have become his life's work.

 

Cancellation:

Other

 

Supply List:

Paint (Professional grade paint highly recommended. Brands listed when I have a preference)
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Red medium
Alizarin Crimson permanent (Gamblin)
Yellow Ochre Light (Winsor and Newton)
Transparent oxide red (Rembrandt)
Ultramarine Blue deep (Rembrandt)
Cobalt blue light (Rembrandt)
Viridian (Rembrandt)

Brushes
A variety of sizes and shapes of hog hair and synthetic bristles. For shapes, I use mostly filbert and flat brushes with a few small round brushes for detail work (you only need the small round brushes in synthetic). Make sure the synthetic brushes are not specifically for watercolors they'll be too soft, Sabletek brushes from Royal Langnickle are great for the price.

Palette
Masterson stay-wet palette box with the blue lid. It perfectly fits a 12x16" piece of glass that you will mix on. You can buy a tempered grey glass palette that is made for this purpose or get a piece of glass cut at a hardware store and cut a middle value neutral grey piece of paper to put below the glass.

Canvas
Canvas panels are a great and inexpensive support for beginner painters, they usually come in packs that are an even better value. At least 12x16" or up to 16"x20"

Other

• Paper towels (Viva or the blue shop towels are durable and absorbent and will work way better than regular paper towels)


• Stainless steel brush washer


• Gamsol odorless mineral spirits


• Palette knives are useful painting tools as well as a mixing tool for your colors, I mostly use a triangular shaped one about 2 inches long, but other sizes and shapes can be useful and I would encourage you to buy a few to play around with.


• Color Wheel Pocket Guide with Gray Scale Value Finder, package on Amazon for $10


• Q tips I use these a lot when painting, super handy to have if you need them


• I would like everyone to paint something of their preference but I'd also like it to be from a useful reference image. Please email me an image or 2 that you'd be interested in working from during class and we can work together to make sure it will work for our purposes.

 

Class Sizes:

Minimum Class Size: 6

Maximum Class Size: 15