"every moment you're living is the greatest miracle, the most complex, and you're just drinking a cup of coffee without realizing any of it" - O'connell
gesso one quart
paint thinner
palette
Oil Paint (in tubes)
Neutrals: mars or ivory black, titanium white, paynes grey
Earth: burnt umber, raw sienna, yellow ochre, indian red
Primaries: alazarian crimson, cadmium red (med), ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, thalo blue, cadmium yellow ly
Secondaries: cadmium orange, per green light, thalo green, turquoise, sap green, terre verte, diox purple, mar violet
flat or filbert brushes 1/4", 1/2", 1"
Subject:
1. Method & Materials
pigments, mediums, thinners, brushes, palettes, mediums
supports
techniques(lean-to-fat, wash)
cleaning and safety
2. Tonal Studies
neutral tones and tonal range
mixing neutral
adding warm and cool dimension to nuetrals
seeing a subject as tonal areas/blocking
using neg/pos interface
using diff tech relative to surface
3. Color Theory
typology and functions of color
organization of color wheel into a system of color categories
color as tonality
implications of color relationships on the creation of illusionary space
color mixing
palette organization
4. Painting Techniques
wash drawing and layout
massing tones and local colors
adding light and shadow to local color
broken color
blended color
variations of paint surfaces
highlight and accent
colored grounds