John Wilson - Creative Landscape in Oils
10/09/2022 - 11/09/2022 (10:00am - 4:00pm)
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- Organiser:
- Orange Art Society Inc.
- Venue:
- Cultural Centre Orange
- Address:
- 22 Sale Street, Orange NSW, Australia
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JOHN WILSON FRAS FAIHA
"Into The Light - Creative Landscape in Oils"
This is an opportunity not to be missed! Learn from one of Australia’s top Tutors. Renowned for his magnificent Australian Landscapes John will share the secrets to create your own beautiful and exciting oil paintings. You will be exploring the subtilties of our Australian light and atmosphere as well as composition, colour mixing and techniques used in the craft of oil painting. The workshop will begin with a short theory session followed by step by step demonstrations of each painting. Emphasis will be to attain an extra step to attain a higher level of competence in all areas. Please bring all your painting gear and as many questions as you wish to ask.
A FULL TIME Artist and Tutor for 45 years John’s great expertise and experience make him one of the countries leading tutors of Australian Landscape. John has won 82 major awards and has had 50 solo exhibitions including London, USA, Canada, Japan, China, and Korea. His work is held in private and corporate collections both here and internationally. John is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW and Patron of the Society of Mountain Artists.
Weather permitting, we hope to do Plein Air for part of this workshop.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
ALL WINDSOR AND NEWTON ARTIST QUALITY FOR BEST RESULTS
This is an intermediate / advanced workshop. Please do not disadvantage yourself by using cheaper brands. Most are incompatible with the techniques we will be using.
COOL PRIMARY COLOURS WARM PRIMARY COLOURS
Cobalt Blue Ultramarine Blue
Rose Madder Genuine Cadmium Scarlet
Lemon Yellow Hue Yellow Ochre
EXTRA COLOURS
Burnt Sienna, Viridian, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Cadmium Orange, Indian Yellow, Cerulean Blue, Burnt Umber, Indian Red plus a 200ml tube of W&N Titanium White.
BRUSHES AND OTHER MATERIALS.
A good selection of Eterna 577 series hog hairbrushes, No’s 16, 10, 8, 6 or similar. One No 4, Rowney Kolinski 101 sable, 1- No 6, Art Basics 8802L Red Sable Liner, 2- pointed round hog’s hair size 2 or 3. Distilled Gum Turps and a dipper (for washes and as a medium) low odour turps and container for washing brushes.
Canvas Boards 1- 12” x 18”.......2- 12” x 9” or similar size
Please bring all you normal oil painting kit including French Box easel, one extra palette, Drying box, Tissues, iPad, cameras etc.
**** Note from Orange Art Soceity Workshops Committee****
If you do not have the above colours, please get in touch. We have a supply that we are happy to share for a small contribution. Just buy a tube of Titanium white.