North Shore Artists' Guild

Details for "Dene Croft Workshop Sept 23-24, 2017"

Dene Croft

"Building Figure Studies in Oil and Acrylic"

Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24

New Location*** Dene Croft's Studios

118 Pemberton St (@East 1st)

9:30-4:00 on Saturday

and  Sunday

Members - $160

Non-members  - $190

. . . a two day workshop with Dene Croft exploring the methods and master techniques employed in building  figure studies in oil and acrylic. . .

This workshop deals principally with composition, palette set-up and mixing life like flesh tones; the importance of under-paint ; full instruction and all-weekend demonstrations on building your painting- from the under paint to the finished piece (. . . lots of hand holding - nobody gets left behind!) adding elements of abstraction and background design to create mood and ambiance.
 
While we will be focusing principally on anatomy and figure painting in this workshop, this is a weekend of general discussion on oil and acrylic painting and is open to all levels of ability (although some experience is definitely helpful). I will be open to discussing any- and all, of the techniques that I employ in my landscape, figure/portrait and still life paintings. . . . so bring your problems and issues . . .I am prepared to discuss whatever you bring to the workshop -   nothing is outside the scope of what we can cover.

We will be talking a little art history; a little about product; a lot about painterly technique, and we’ll be taking  a close look at master technique - grisaille, alla prima, sfumato and glazing, specifically- why I believe so strongly in using these techniques, and continue to use them in my own work.
We will discuss working with; and photographing models, lighting to create mood and ambiance,  building
ambient narratives, the importance of pre-studies;building tension in your composition and tapping into your
intuitive responses while working with 'academic' based technique.
 
While I prefer to work with live models, for practical reasons, we will be working from photographs for this workshop. You are very welcome to bring your own images and work from those; however I will be bringing multiple copies of the image that I will be working from for those that would prefer to follow along with my demos throughout the weekend.

Figure Explorations with Dene Croft . Materials List

Paint –Oil or Acrylics…. Please note – if you are an acrylic painter, ‘Open Acrylics will work better when painting flesh tones. If you don’t have ‘Open Acrylics’ (slow drying) bring your retarder and a misting bottle.

These are the colours that I generally use to build my flesh palette
Cadmium Orange (hue)
raw sienna (yellow ochre will also work)
Burnt Umber
light Red (Indian red also works, so does burnt Sienna)
Cadmium Red
Black
White (Your favourite will do – I use Titanium
Also…
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Sap Green
Quinacridone Red
Prussian or Phthalo Blue
Cadmium Yellow Deep

Brushes . . . whatever you have  -

I generally use acrylic brushes ( even though I paint in oil) #6 filbert, #10 filbert, #0 round, 1/4 inch flat.

Several well gessoed canvases in a range of sizes no larger than 18x24 - 3 coats of gesso; sand the final layer.

Palette ( tear off, disposable is probably easiest for a w/s)

Oil/mediums, low odour mineral spirits or OMS.

Pencils, erasers, drawing paper.

Subject  (photo) material

Paper towels



Dene Croft SFCA,
President, Federation of Canadian artists
Dene Croft studios
118 Pemberton avenue
North Vancouver, BC
V7P 2R5
Canada
ph (604) 250-5562

www.denecroft.com

• Administrative Notes:
• Registration. Members Note - enter only your name, no other details are necessary as the program will provide that info!  To sign up for this workshop directly, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. Enrollment and waitlist status is also presented there. You can pay directly on-line by credit card. You will need to make payment within 24 hours of your enrollment or it will be automatically cancelled so if you need assistance in paying, please contact Richard Prutton by email: raprutton@gmail.com . [Payment by cheque is discouraged as this is unreliable when time is of the essence.]
  

This course may fill up quickly.  Do not hesitate to join the WAIT LIST. If it is full, do not be discouraged. Check back later- you may still be able to get in.

For every workshop we have run this year, we have had cancellations because of illness or change of plans.  Often even a wait list of eight names or more is moved up because "life changes things."  However, if you are on the wait list and change your own plans, please do not hold your space in the queue. Please take your name off the wait list and let someone else have a chance.   Be kind to your colleagues and remove your name if you have a change of plans. 

Cancellations. If you are unable to attend a workshop, refunds are not issued, but you may find another person to take your place. Only if the workshop is full can you cancel through Richard Prutton, in which case a refund will be issued if your spot can be filled from the waitlist.  No Refunds will be issued within 48 hours of the workshop start time.

NSAG reserves the right to cancel the course within 30 days.

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