Expressive Painting with Robert Henry

Date: October 4th & 5th
Time: 10:30am – 3:00pm
Fee:$280/$260 (members)

In this workshop, you will work in a relaxed, congenial and cooperative environment where there are no predetermined rules. You will generate your opportunities and limitations from a will to be expressive, and an exposure to methods, techniques, and strategies that help to turn visions of the world into your expression on canvas. There will be a clothed model in an environment that encourages composition. The class should be thought of as a painting class, not purely a figure painting class. You should come out of the class with a heightened ability to freely interpret reality in paint.

Materials List
Oil paints, as many colors as possible
Canvas, 3 to 5, max size 40”
Pallette, knives, paint spreaders, soft rubber rollers, squeegies, etc.
Brushes, as varied a set of sizes, shapes and bristle sizes as possible.
4 sheets Strathmore charcoal paper standard size
1 box soft charcoal (vine charcoal)
Kneaded erasers
Chamois Cloth
Suggested colors, (Permalba White) Utrecht White, ivory, black, burnt sienna, raw sienna, burnt umber, yellow oche, napthol red, – light, cadmium-barium; yellow medium, cadmium, barium yellow light or zinc yellow, phthalo blue, permanent, green dioxazine, purple.
Suggested brushes:  #2 & #5, sabeline; #4 & #10, round bristle #4 & #8 & #12, flat, bright or filbert.