PAINTING THROUGH THE LENS



PAINTING THE BRUGGE LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE LENS

The Flemish Classical Atelier

Instructor: Glen Kessler

August 5-9, 2019

10am-4pm daily

OVERVIEW

The objective of this workshop is to provide a structured and educational environment for students to develop paintings from photographic sources. Working from the photograph provides beginning and professional artists alike the opportunity to work from their own personal favorite subjects, to develop their paintings across any timeline they desire, and to hone drawing and color mixing skills in a more targeted way than from life. But there are challenges to working from the photograph too! Flattening the painting, losing emotional connection, and overworking are all issues we will learn to avoid.

We will take as our subject for this workshop, our beautiful host city of Brugge. On Day 1 we will take a walking tour of the “city of bridges” as we gather beautiful images to paint from. Glen will discuss subject, composition, light, and color choices. In the afternoon, we will discuss how to use programs like Photoshop Elements to further ready our photos for painting.

On Days 2-5, Glen will lead students through his step-by-step process for quickly and accurately painting from photos. Students can expect to produce at least one completed painting during this workshop.

Questions and comments for the instructor are always welcome. Please email GlenKesslerArt@ or TheCompassAtelier@, and allow 24-48 hours for a response.

SUPPLIES

Paints (Gamblin Artist Oil preferred)

Alizarin Permanent

Cadmium Red Medium

Cadmium Orange

Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon

Phthalo Green

Phthalo Blue

Ultramarine Blue

Ivory Black

Titanium White

Dioxazine Purple

Quinacridone Magenta

Brushes

Hog bristle brushes (Rosemary & Co Ivory brushes recommended):

Short Flats (0, 2, 4, 6)

Filberts (0, 2, 4, 6)

Pointed Rounds (00, 1)

Mongoose bristle brushes (Rosemary & Co Eclipse brushes recommended):

Filberts (4, 6)

Sable brushes (Rosemary & Co Pure Sable brushes recommended):

Filberts (2, 4)

Flats (4)

Fan (4)

Oval Mop Brush (Princeton Select ¼”, 1”)

Filbert Grainer (Princeton Select ¼”, ¾”)

Other Necessities

New Wave Posh Palette (12” x 16” gray glass)

Masterson StaWet Palette Box (blue top)

Quart of GamSol

Silicoil jar (glass jar with metal coil inside)

1-2 16” x 20” canvases

Container for supplies

Palette knife (Liquitex #1, trowel shape)

Sketchbook (any size or style)

Palette scraper

The Painter’s Compass Color Wheel

Wet erase marker

Paper towels

Bar of Ivory soap

Vine charcoal (thin, soft or medium)

VOCABULARY

As in any specific field or profession, Art has its own unique vocabulary. The terms below will be used by me and by you throughout this course. You will find that using them will actually make instruction and discussions less complicated. You should have a working understanding of all these terms by our second class, with the terms becoming clearer as we make use of them through the course. Questions/comments about these terms are encouraged.

Analogous Colors - colors next to one another on the color wheel.

Color Wheel - an arrangement of colored pie pieces into a circle, each corresponding to a general family of color. The order and arrangement of the color wheel is more significant than you may know….

Complementary Colors - colors on opposite sides of the color wheel.

Composition - the arrangement of objects inside the rectangle of the painting for the purpose of conveying an idea.

Ground - 1) barrier applied to substrate to protect against decomposition.

2) background (often used in term ‘figure-ground relationship’)

Hue - alternative name for family of color (i.e. red, red-orange, orange, yellow, etc)

Information - every individual observation represents a piece of information. The collection of information is what leads you through the creation of your painting.

Local Color - the “real” color of an object (distilled from the effects of varied lighting).

Medium - 1) general term for any material used in the making of art.

2) substance mixed with paint to alter its properties

Proportion - the relationship of one object to another within a painting.

Saturation - the intensity or subtlety of a color.

Scale - the relationship of the size of objects in a painting to the size of the canvas.

Space/Depth - the illusion of three-dimensionality between objects in a painting. Of course the canvas always remains flat; it is only the illusion of depth that you can achieve in your paintings…

Substrate - the surface on which one paints (i.e. canvas, board, paper)

Texture - the illusion of different types of surfaces within a work of art. Flesh, hair, fabric, metal, etc all look different--your ability to understand how each of these can be rendered will allow your medium to actually feel like the objects you are rendering.

Value/Tone - the measure of lightness or darkness. I will often refer to value in numerical terms, with 0 being absolute white and 10 being absolute black.

Volume/Mass - the illusion of three-dimensionality within an object in a painting.

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