Exploring Color in Oil

Exploring Color in Oil

7 WEEK COURSE

Wednesdays 6:30-9:00 PM

may 14- june 25 2025

WITH RYAN CHAPMAN

ALL LEVELS WELCOME

price: $250

class summary

The goal of this intro course is to teach students a foundational understanding of color theory, through a series of hands-on technical exercises and still life paintings. In this course students will learn to organize their paint mixing in oils with a limited palette, gradually learning to understand paint mixing with an open palette. Students will work from life as well as from copies of masterworks, learning to perceive color the way a painter does.

No prior experience in Oils is required! As we keep class sizes small, our instructors can cater to each student’s individual skill level.

MATERIALS

I will be going over materials on the first day, so you will not need to have everything on day 1.

Bring along a sketchbook for warm-ups! If you’re unsure about any of these we can answer any questions you may have about materials on the first day of class

• Canvas Pad (8x10 should be good) *Not Canvas Paper

• 1-2 Canvas Boards 16x20 (recommended size) stretched canvas is also ok.

• Odorless Mineral Spirit (Gamsol Is Best) Please no Turpentine!

• A small mason jar or airtight solvent jar for Gamsol

• Various Sized Brushes For Oil painting (good mix of synthetic and bristle brushes is recommended.)

• Wooden Palette or Grey Palette Paper (Palette paper is easiest for cleanup)

• Pencil

• Recommended Oil Paint Colors (Use Winsor Newton or Gamblin Brand for best results):

  • Titanium White

  • Burnt Umber

  • Raw Umber

  • Cadmium Red (or Cadmium Red Medium)

  • Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Red

  • Yellow Ochre

  • Cadmium Yellow (Light or Cadmium Lemon)

  • Cadmium Yellow Medium

  • Veridian or Pthalo Green

  • Ultramarine Blue

  • Dioxazine Purple

  • Cobalt Blue

  • Cobalt Teal (or Cobalt Turquoise)

  • Ivory Black

  • + Any Other Colors You Want to Bring

  • With all of these colors, the student grade version of gamblin (aka the 1980 brand) or Winsor Newton (Winton Brand) Will work fine. If you can afford it, the artist grade paints will always be better.

• Palette Knife (For Mixing)

• Linseed Oil (optional)

• Paper Towels Or Rags

• Box for Palette/Wet Painting (not required, but highly recommended for bringing home your wet painting.

• Wooden drawing board to put your canvas on

SYLLABUS

Here’s a rough outline of what we’ll be covering!

Week 1 Overview of materials and Instructor Demo

Week 2 Monochrome still life Painting

Week 3 Warm and Cool Painting Exercise

Week 4 and 5 Limited Palette Master Copy

Week 6 and 7 Painting from life with an open palette

REFUNDS

Please contact us at least 1 week before class for a full refund. Unfortunately due to our limited class sizes we cannot process refunds after this time. Transfers to other classes are usually possible

It is possible that a class is cancelled if an inadequate number of students register. In this case, tuition will be promptly refunded

absences

Anyone who must miss classes may attend up to two make-up sessions in other classes as long as space permits

Any Questions? Shoot us a message!

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