Paint ATMOSPHERIC skies in oil
Instructor: Deborah Tilby
Audience: Fine Art Painters
For Stage(s): Aspiring, Emerging
Medium: Oil
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Saturday, June 29, 2024
One Day, 4 hours
10:00am – 2:00pm MT
$132.00
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Course Description
Course Description:
In landscape painting the sky sets the mood for the entire painting and is arguably the most important element to get right. And the easiest to get wrong!
In this intensive 4-hour workshop, I will discuss and demonstrate cloudless skies (surprisingly difficult), cloudy days, stormy skies, and sunsets. Watch the demonstrations and paint along or later if you prefer. Then submit your work in the chat for a critique.
Feel free to use your preferred materials. I’ll also provide a supply list if you need guidance and recommendations. This workshop suits aspiring and emerging painters best, but you must have some painting experience.
RESULTS OF COURSE
- TECHNIQUES for painting cloudless skies with depth and interest.
- Capturing the DYNAMIC energy of cloudy and stormy days.
- Creating CAPTIVATING sunsets with vibrant colors and gradients.
- How to CHOOSE the right sky to complement your landscape and set the desired mood.
Supply List
PAINT
Whatever you usually use but I suggest:
- Titanium white
- Cadmium Yellow Light or any cool yellow such as Cad
- Lemon
- French Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue (make sure it is warm – Gamblin is good) or
- Kings Blue
- Phthalo Blue, Cobalt Turquoise or any light warm blue for horizons
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson
- Cadmium Red Light or any warm light red
- Burnt Sienna or Transparent Oxide Red (optional)
- Burnt Umber (optional)
BRUSHES
Those you usually use. If unsure, I suggest:
- several bristle brushes and several synthetic sable –
filberts, flats and brights
PALETTE KNIFE
PANELS, CANVAS, CANVAS PAD OR BOARDS (We’ll be doing exercises so have a few. Any size you enjoy using)
PALETTE or palette paper
ODOURLESS MINERAL SPIRITS or safflower oil if not using mineral spirits.
One of the many MEDIUMS on offer or Linseed oil (water missable linseed oil if using water soluble oils)
PAPER TOWEL or rags
Instructor Bio
Deborah Tilby is a Canadian painter currently living in Victoria BC. She is recognized as one of the top oil painters in the country and is a senior signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and has been awarded the status of Oil Painters of America Master. Her work has won many international awards, has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur, International Artist, Southwest Art, Arabella and Artist magazines and is in collections all over North America and Europe.
“Painting began for me with my first watercolour at age eighteen. I love watercolour and it held my interest for many years, before I began working with oils. I am Canadian but for fourteen years, England was home and European street scenes and landscapes were my subject. A move to the west coast of British Columbia turned my attention toward the beaches, boats, waves, and marinas of coastal living. Not entirely committed to trading Europe for Canada, I have travelled between the two, keeping my perspective fresh and allowing my work to straddle both continents. I now stick to oils most of the time, only occasionally reaching for my watercolours. I still love watercolour but am drawn to the flexibility, freedom, and richness that oils offer.
I became a painter by way of being an observer – I have always noticed light and shadow, shapes, texture, composition and colour, and endeavouring to interpret my observations through painting has been a lifelong passion. That people choose my work to hang in witness of their lives is a bonus, both wonderful and humbling.
