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CRAFTSMANSHIP AND MATERIALS Aquiring skills to do: pigmant grinding, traditional gesso on wood, priming canvas with glue and priming canvas the way the Old Masters did. Tools: brushes, pallet knife, sandpaper, scraping, sponges, paint removers. Materials: different types of boards, canvas, chalks, marble dust, glass, gesso, oil (thick and lean). How to make mediums, sun-thickened oil, varnishes, fast drying mediums, think and thin mediums. Painting a la prima, painting with pallet knives, painting combination, painting in black and white underpainting, painting direct layers on top of layers. Also included: Odd Nerdrum's techniques, building, scraping, sanding, and glazing. Cast drawing in charcoal, learning to draw shapes, angles, planes, values and shadow lines. Drawing from the Old Masters teaches you techniques, how to use the red chalk, charcoal, pencil, different paper, washes and line drawing. Drawing from models, gesture drawing, long rendering drawings. Still life set ups, great to learn to paint things copper, wood, porcelin, materials, metal and so on. Background, atmosphere, colour composition, relationship, overlapping objects, illusions of 3-D. Brush strokes, underpainting and glazing, vibration of light in different objects. Glass or metal will have a different highlights, where as a highlight on copper would look like a sunset or afterglow, and a highlight on glass would look like the moon or a diamond. A la prima means direct painting, one session, an oil sketch, this method will be used especially in sunsets and sunrises outdoors capturing the moment and the light. It is a good way to discover your technique and personality,your signature and to discover a new way of painting.
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 It gives you a time or a way to experiment with a different approach with pallet knifes, brushes, hands, rags, washes - it is a wonderful, creative process! Methods and techniques of the Renaissance Old and New Masters, copying old and new from a reproduction step by step underpainting, building, glazing and varnishing will give you the technical skill to be applied to your own work. You will learn how to bring the vibration of the gold light, silver vibration, the grays and violets and to create illuminacity. Working from live models, portrait and costume, to be able to apply your technique from copying the Old Masters. The costumes will enrich the model and will give you a richness and texture to experiment with, as well as a refelction on the models skin. Working from photos is recommended only for advanced students, the technique will be the same in copying from the Old Masters. |
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