Oil Painting Simplified With Paul Gallo

Weekend workshop: Oct 31, Nov 1 9-4pm Topics covered: • Painting Demonstration – 4 oil painting guidelines • Simplifying with parent colors • Color mixing • Big brush advantage • Straightforward compositions • Importances of Edges • Creating depth in your painting Oil Painting – Paul Gallo 717-608-7190 Supplies can be bought locally at Michaels or on-line at Dick Blick or Cheap Joes.   BASIC OIL PAINT COLORS: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson Permanent, Burnt Sienna and Titanium White   PAINT BRANDS:  Recommended Professional Brands: Windsor Newton or Gamblin   Less Expensive Recommended Brands: Gamblin 1980, WindsorNewton “Winton”, or Utrecht Michaels, Dick Blick and Cheap Joes usually have 9-color paint sets for about $45 which will work fine. I don’t recommend using the cheapest student grade paints.   PAPER TOWELS – 1 roll of paper towels BRUSHES: Brushes come in three basic shapes – rounds, brights, flats and filberts.  Rounds are long and tubular, like a watercolor brush.  Brights and flats are flat and square, with brights being short and flats being long. Fiberts combine the advantage of flats but creating the softer paint edge of a round. I use mostly brights, flats and filberts, but each type of brush gives you a unique mark. Bring whatever brushes you have but it would good to have these four. Round: #6 or #8 Large flat or bright; about ¾” to 1” wide Smaller flat or bright; about 1/4” wide Bring whatever brushes you have and feel comfortable with. PALETTE: Disposal palette paper or Plastic sealable palette   PALETTE KNIFE: Metal palette knife, size about 4” in length. (For color mixing,scraping paint, laying-in bold color and cleaning the palette.) SOLVENT/ AND CONTAINERS: Turpenoid (odorless substitute for turpentine) and a container to hold Turpenoid. (Tuna cans work well) Water container for acrylic. CANVAS OR ART BOARDS: Two stretched canvas, canvas board or Masonite. Common sizes9x12” or 11×14”. Please bring good reference photos to paint from. Photos on your phone are too small, so get a good photo print of any phone photos you want to use.  Photos reference on your iPad and laptop are large enough to use. Here are two free resources that offer artists good photo reference. https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeRefImages/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/306437363753737/