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G. Eric Slayton ― Oil Painting |
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Description
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Artists/Student Level: Intermediate Use of color, values, design and paint application will e the emphasis of this comprehensive workshop. The class will strongly stress value and its importance to the over all success of the painting. Students will explore a three-step process designed to bring paintings from a transparent lay-in to a more detailed finish in one day's session using a loose and direct approach. Using photographs and smaller canvases (12 x 16 or 11 x 14) student will learn to simplify the subject matter, push and pull color as needed to enhance their paintings. We will work primarily from PHOTOGRAPHS, except one day will be a draped model posed in a vignette. There will also be still lifes for study. Eric will start each session with a painting demonstration emphasizing this application and style as it relates to various subject matter. There will be plenty of individual attention to address your needs. Please note that this is an Oil paint medium, no water medium. |
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Materials
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Art Supply and Equipment List (suggested) Oil Paints:
Note: With the high cost of oil paints and art supplies in general, I recommend that if you do not already have these colors that you purchase "student grade" paints and substitute colors that say "Hue" instead of pure pigment colors. Quality materials result in quality art but for economy sake you do not have to purchase top quality for this workshop. Remember, this is designed to be a "study" workshop and not meant to produce “great works of art.”
Medium:
I recommend Copal or Winsor & Newton’s Liquin. However, you may bring whatever medium you currently use. I do not use nor recommend the use of a lot of medium.
Brushes: Palette: Paper palette tablets are recommended for workshop, however, you should use whatever you are comfortable using. Best is a 16” x 20” white non-transparent Plexiglas (1/4” thick).
Canvas or Panels:
Easel: NOTE: If you do not have a portable easel, borrow one from a friend.
Above all,
let's have fun!!! |
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Instructor |
G. Eric Slayton
Being primarily a studio painter, Eric feels it is important for an artist to use all his years of knowledge gained through academic study and painting from life to recapture a specific moment in time. “Painting should be about an emotion not just be a portrait of the subject matter.” Eric brings his bravura brushwork and colorful interpretations to each canvas whether his subject is a Santa Barbara beach or a simple still life. His images are filled with light and wonderful color harmonies. Slayton’s extensive art education has encompassed studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson; Escuela de los Artes, Universidad de Madrid, Spain; UCLA Art Center, Los Angeles; Scottsdale Artists School and California Art Institute. He has had paintings hanging in the West Wing of the White House and is an exhibiting artist with the Art in Embassies Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Eric is an
Artists Member of the California Art Club, Oil Painters of America
and the American Society of Marine Artists. |
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