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Renaissance Painting Techniques
Three Month Painting Workshops:
Students are encouraged to work between classes, and have permanent access to the atelier, day and night.
All materials are provided. However, students wanting to advance more rapidly should come with at least one finished drawing in pencil of compressed charcoal (Cretacolor), on a gessoed canvas or... read more
Three Month Painting Workshops:
Students are encouraged to work between classes, and have permanent access to the atelier, day and night.
All materials are provided. However, students wanting to advance more rapidly should come with at least one finished drawing in pencil of compressed charcoal (Cretacolor), on a gessoed canvas or panel, though additional paintings will be begun during the course of the three months. Brushes will be provided, but students can bring their own as well. The airport authorities will confiscate any volatile liquid materials, so do not attempt to bring oil paints or mediums.
Syllabus:
* Introduction of the "Technique Mixte"
Discussion of materials and overview of the methodology.
* Preparation of the panel or canvas.; mixing gessos
Students begin by drawing on the prepared ground with supplied pencils. Emphasis on draftsmanship: form, value, and detail. Subjects covered: Composition, perspective, scale and proportion, contour drawing and modeling by cross hatching, rendered shadows (chiaroscuro)
* Imprimatura: its role as a preparation for the lights
* Introduction to the preparation of emulsion: formula and use.
* Working up the lights: Using tempera emulsion and white pigment, the student will model the forms and define the value range, from highlights to cool middletones.
* Working up the darks: A similar process is used with umbers to continue the modeling process from dark to middletone.
* Introduction to glazing and scumbling: the application of transparent oil glazes over the neutral tempera "monochrome" begins.
* Working with the glazes: a judicious juxtaposition of temperatures, tints and tones to heighten spatial illusion.
* Complexities abound: but oh such fun....such marvelous, wonderful, miraculous painting fun to be discovered!
* Finishing: Final heightening with a range of nuances; the expanded palette.
* Review and analysis; discussion: the technique and its use by the contemporary artist.
Class size is kept to a minimum in order to facilitate one-on-one contact as often as possible - never more than ten and very often under five. Less
