Landscape Painting with Water Mixable Oil

Enjoy the luxury of painting in oil with the convenience of painting solvent-free. Water mixable oils are real oil paint, but they clean up with water and use non-toxic thinners and mediums that don’t give off fumes.

Oil paint is the painting medium of the masters, the majority of paintings you see in museums and galleries were painted in oil. This workshop and class will introduce you to this flexible, sensual and versatile medium without the drawbacks of the traditional use of solvent based thinners and mediums.

We will work indoors from photographs, and outdoors if weather permits.  Topics will include: working with water mixable oil, thinners and mediums; choosing a subject and arranging a composition for landscape; transferring a composition from a photograph to a canvas or panel; starting a painting; developing a painting in stages; the use of value and color and the importance of edges; creating textures to suggest foliage, tree trunks, grasses, water and other surfaces; adjusting the thickness of oil paint as you paint; brush handling; and mixing a wide range of colors from a simple, limited palette.

The class will include demonstrations by the instructor and individual instruction at each student’s level of experience.