Painting Creatively from Photos

Painting Creatively from Photos

Instructor: Souby Boski

Workshop Information

Date: Wednesday, November 10

Time: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: Five Points Arts Center Painting Lab

Ages: 18+

Cost: $90

Class Cap: 12

Workshop Description

Most artists use source photos in some capacity when they work, whether to jog their memory of a particular place and time or to record specific visual details to incorporate in later pieces. In this workshop, students will learn to paint in a creative, personal, and expressive way using reference photographs - freeing them from copying. Learn to dismiss the sense of obligation to show exactly what is depicted in the photo and feel free and inspired to manipulate the composition, assuring vitality and making the painting your personal creation. Bring several canvases and reference photos.

Required Materials

Everyone has their own favorite colors, brushes, mediums, canvases. Any supplies you have will be fine.

Minimum required supplies:

· Paints(oil or acrylic paints): Primary colors of your choice; Lots of white

· Painting Surfaces: Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted sizes

· Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting brushes (1 – 2 in.)

· Palette Knives

· Your favorite mediums for Oil paints

· Containers: Oil Painters - Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids for mixing medium. Acrylic Painters - Large Jars for water

· Palettes: Disposable Artist’s palettes for mixing paint.

· Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper towels.

SUGGESTED MATERIALS LIST

· Paints: Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Kings Blue, Cobalt Violet, Ultramarine Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Sap Green, Permanent Green, Naples Yellow (150 ml tube suggested), Permabla white (150ml tubes suggested), other colors of choice

· Painting Surfaces: Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted sizes

· Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting brushes (1 – 2 in.)

· Oil Painting Mediums: Pint - stand oil, Pint – linseed oil

· Brush Cleaner for Oil Paint: Windsor Newton Brush Cleaner & Preserver

· Containers: Oil Painters - Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids for mixing medium. Acrylic Painters - Large Jars for water

· Palettes: Disposable Artist’s palettes for mixing paint.

· Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper towels.

· Other suggested supplies: Palette Knife, Thin stick of charcoal, Baby Wipes, Disposable gloves

Instructor Bio

Souby Boski has been an Art teacher in the CT public schools and Adjunct Professor of Art at Naugatuck Valley Community College. Since 2004, she has been teaching painting classes and workshops at area art education venues in CT, MA and FL.

She holds a BA in Art Education from Stetson University and a MALS in Art from Wesleyan University. She has studied painting with nationally recognized artists and teachers: Eric Aho, Ira Barkoff, Lois Dodd and Ruth Miller.