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Painting: Plein Air Landscape
2-Day Workshop
Instructor: Edward Duff

This two-day workshop will cover the basic foundations of plein air landscape painting with a focus on accurate color mixing, brushwork,painting handling, composition and simplifcation of form. The class will meet and work off site with a break for lunch. Over the course of the two days, students will learn how to approach a variety of subjects such as clouds, water, flowers and foliage.

Students will gain confidence and learn the essential techniques of plein air painting through demonstration and individual instruction. Demonstrations will be done in oil, but all painting media is welcome in the workshop.

A portable easel is required. Off site location TBD. Students will receive directions via email.

Level 2 & Up
Wednesday & Thursday, August 13 – 14
9:00 am – 3:30 pm, 2 sessions
$252 Members, $292 Guests

Painting: Plein Air Landscape Workshop
Instructor: Edward Duff

Please note, since this workshop will take place outside at a location TBD it's important to come prepared with the necessary materials. Below I have listed the recommended supplies. I will be doing all demos in oil, as it is a preferred medium for painting outdoors. However, it's fine if you'd like to work with acrylic, gouache or watercolor. Please email me with any questions regarding supplies.

Materials List

1 small sketch pad - I recommend the 5 x 8 1/4" Moleskine sketchbooks (light purple label)

1 kneaded eraser

1 graphite pencil - I recommend Cretacolor Monolith 4B

1 view finder

1 - 9 x 12 pad of Arches Oil Paper or Canson Canva-Paper for studies

1 Drawing board (15 x 16 minimum) to affix canvas / oil paper to

1 Roll of Artist Tape - I recommend the black Blick Artist Tape as it is less distracting than the blue kind

1 pre-stretched canvas, canvas panel or primed wood panel (Raymar Panels and Ampersand Gessobord are good brands) 8 x 10, 9 x 12 or 11 x 14

1 palette - It can be either plexiglass or primed wood, or if you prefer, 1 pad of disposable palette paper (Richeson Grey Matters). * Palettes should be 8” x 10” at a minimum

1 brush cleaner with lid (Silicoil makes an inexpensive glass jar with a metal spring, or you can spend a bit more on a larger stainless steel brush washer with a snap top lid)

Metal palette cups with caps (Martin Universal Design Museum Double Palette Cup is recommended)

Painting medium of your choice (Refined Linseed Oil, Liquin, Gamblin Solvent Free Gel and Winsor and Newton Artist's Painting Medium are good options)

1 bottle of Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits - 32 oz size is recommended to fill both your brush washer and the separate metal cup for thinning paint

1 pair of scissors 1 - 12” straight edge ruler

1 roll of paper towel or a bag of lint free rags

1 roll of masking tape - I recommend the black Blick Artist Tape from Blick Art Materials

Portable Easel - Blick Art Materials carries several plein air easels to choose from. They now offer affordable small to larger sized French Easels, as well as pochade boxes which need to be attached to a camera tripod. If you're interested and willing in making an investment, check out the following brands:

Edge Pro Gear

STRADA Easel

Open Box M

Coulter Easel

Guerrilla Box

Brushes:

A variety of filberts, flats and rounds / both natural hog bristle and synthetic in assorted sizes. Blick Art Materials sells sets of brushes which are reasonable priced.

Oil Paints:

Titanium White

Ivory Black Or Chromatic Black

Cadmium Yellow Lemon

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Cadmium Red Light or Winsor Red

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Cerulean, Manganese or Phthalo Blue

Additional Materials:

Wide brimmed hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, bug spray & rain coat Snack, lunch & something to drink

Ziplock bags to carry paint and liquid painting materials

Clip on umbrella - I recommend the Artwork Essentials EASyl umbrella - *Not necessary but helpful

Baby wipes for cleaning your hands

Plastic bags for paper towel and rags

Large garbage bags or smaller flat cardboard boxes to transport wet paintings and palettes home in your car. *If you shop at Costco, I recommend taking home a few of their free cardboard boxes to use. The large flat boxes used for berries and tomatoes comes in are really handy. Additionally, large garbage bags can be laid flat in your trunk or back seat to keep paint off of your car upholstery and interior.

The majority of the above painting supplies with the exception of the high end easels can be found at Blick Art Materials. There are stores located in Dearborn, Detroit and Royal Oak.

Blick Art Materials - 28878 Woodward Avenue, Royal Oak, MI 48067 (248) 548-7679

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions at ecdart@yahoo.com.

Course Medium

Painting

Location

Studio/Offsite at BBAC Campus

Instructor

Edward Duff