ALASTAIR DACEY
STILL LIFE WORKSHOP January 06 - March 11, 2021
STILL LIFE WORKSHOP
Alastair Dacey
(8) Wednesday eves 6-9pm.
January 06 -March 11, 2021
Todd Bonita Gallery
39 Ceres St. Portsmouth, NH ($360)
Values, edges, form, abstraction...sound familiar? This class will explore these and other foundational themes in a very focused and helpful approach to still life.
We will discuss and practice ways of distinguishing light and shade so that your eye for proportions improve and you achieve a sense of light and atmosphere in your drawings and paintings. We will practice seeing and composing with the arabesques and the big abstract shapes and hopefully loosen you up to be more free while at the same time, more accurate.
We will start with pencil or charcoal drawing (on toned/brown paper) and progress to oil painting -but stay focused on values. In either case, both in class and in homework, we will work from life.
This class is designed for our challenging 2021winter. So whether you can attend our small, socially distanced class in person or enjoy the demos and assignments virtually, there will be plenty of safe learning and camaraderie to enjoy.
Hope you can join us!
Alastair Dacey
(8) Wednesday eves 6-9pm.
January 06 -March 11, 2021
Todd Bonita Gallery
39 Ceres St. Portsmouth, NH ($360)
Values, edges, form, abstraction...sound familiar? This class will explore these and other foundational themes in a very focused and helpful approach to still life.
We will discuss and practice ways of distinguishing light and shade so that your eye for proportions improve and you achieve a sense of light and atmosphere in your drawings and paintings. We will practice seeing and composing with the arabesques and the big abstract shapes and hopefully loosen you up to be more free while at the same time, more accurate.
We will start with pencil or charcoal drawing (on toned/brown paper) and progress to oil painting -but stay focused on values. In either case, both in class and in homework, we will work from life.
This class is designed for our challenging 2021winter. So whether you can attend our small, socially distanced class in person or enjoy the demos and assignments virtually, there will be plenty of safe learning and camaraderie to enjoy.
Hope you can join us!
REGISTER
Call Todd to register (603) 819-9100
or email Todd: tmbonita@gmail.com
* $180 Deposit to hold your space. Balance can be paid at class or sooner if you wish.
We accept:
* Credit Cards (4% Process fee)
* Venmo: @Todd-Bonita
* Cash (for Teachers Pet)
* Checks. Made out to Todd Bonita and mail to:
Todd Bonita
30 Hillside Drive
Greenland, NH 03840
Please write in the memo on the check, "DACEY STILL LIFE" for my book keeper.
or email Todd: tmbonita@gmail.com
* $180 Deposit to hold your space. Balance can be paid at class or sooner if you wish.
We accept:
* Credit Cards (4% Process fee)
* Venmo: @Todd-Bonita
* Cash (for Teachers Pet)
* Checks. Made out to Todd Bonita and mail to:
Todd Bonita
30 Hillside Drive
Greenland, NH 03840
Please write in the memo on the check, "DACEY STILL LIFE" for my book keeper.
SUPPLY LIST
SUPPLY LIST
Easel
Each student will need to bring their own portable freestanding easel. I encourage students to stand while they work, but sitting is certainly an option. Make sure your easel is not a tabletop ease and has adjustable legs that get your drawing surface high enough for you to work comfortably. For painting, a French easel which has a drawer to place your palette and supplies is ideal, otherwise you will need to hold your palette!
Palette
With enough space to put out generous piles of paint and space to mix. Please spare yourself the nuisance of wax paper disposable pallets. Get a wood one and wipe it with tung oil and sand to seal. Then apply linseed oil to clean after working.
Palette knife
Paper Towel or Tissue
Enough to keep your palette clean and routinely wipe your brushes. I use Viva or a box of tissue
Paint
I am flexible but would suggest a palette organized on red, yellow and blue -with a warm and cool color for each. Below are colors I have and pull from from each hue category. This selection has the option for a more limited palette as well, with white, cool black, yellow (ochre) and cadmium red or vermilion.
Ivory black and titanium white, I generally use old Holland for both. For the rest I usually use either Winsor Newton or Rembrandt.
Cool red: alizarin, quinacridone
Warm Red: cadmium red scarlet or vermillion
Cool yellow: cadmium yellow lemon
Warm yellow: any of the cadmium yellows light to dark, cadmium orange.
Cool blue: French ultramarine, viridian, some Phthalo blues.
Warmer blue: sevres, some Cerulean blues.
Earth-tones: yellow ochre, burnt umber
Canvases
Stretched canvas or boards are fine. Linen is what I usually use. Sizes between 8x10” and 18x24” are ideal. Bring a few. Keep in mind: boards block light from peeking in from behind your canvas.
Medium
Gamsol, Gamblin’s odorless mineral spirits, and refined linseed oil -I use this sparingly, mixed with the mineral spirits, adding a little more as the painting progresses.
Brushes
Have a selection of rounds and filberts, bristle (I use hogs hair) and sables or mongoose-like finishing brushes. Winsor Newton, Rosemary and Co. are good options. Have an array of sizes in both shapes, from the 1- 2’s, the 4-6’s up to the 8-10’s. Keeping in mind we will start with bristles and then finish with the sables.
Easel
Each student will need to bring their own portable freestanding easel. I encourage students to stand while they work, but sitting is certainly an option. Make sure your easel is not a tabletop ease and has adjustable legs that get your drawing surface high enough for you to work comfortably. For painting, a French easel which has a drawer to place your palette and supplies is ideal, otherwise you will need to hold your palette!
Palette
With enough space to put out generous piles of paint and space to mix. Please spare yourself the nuisance of wax paper disposable pallets. Get a wood one and wipe it with tung oil and sand to seal. Then apply linseed oil to clean after working.
Palette knife
Paper Towel or Tissue
Enough to keep your palette clean and routinely wipe your brushes. I use Viva or a box of tissue
Paint
I am flexible but would suggest a palette organized on red, yellow and blue -with a warm and cool color for each. Below are colors I have and pull from from each hue category. This selection has the option for a more limited palette as well, with white, cool black, yellow (ochre) and cadmium red or vermilion.
Ivory black and titanium white, I generally use old Holland for both. For the rest I usually use either Winsor Newton or Rembrandt.
Cool red: alizarin, quinacridone
Warm Red: cadmium red scarlet or vermillion
Cool yellow: cadmium yellow lemon
Warm yellow: any of the cadmium yellows light to dark, cadmium orange.
Cool blue: French ultramarine, viridian, some Phthalo blues.
Warmer blue: sevres, some Cerulean blues.
Earth-tones: yellow ochre, burnt umber
Canvases
Stretched canvas or boards are fine. Linen is what I usually use. Sizes between 8x10” and 18x24” are ideal. Bring a few. Keep in mind: boards block light from peeking in from behind your canvas.
Medium
Gamsol, Gamblin’s odorless mineral spirits, and refined linseed oil -I use this sparingly, mixed with the mineral spirits, adding a little more as the painting progresses.
Brushes
Have a selection of rounds and filberts, bristle (I use hogs hair) and sables or mongoose-like finishing brushes. Winsor Newton, Rosemary and Co. are good options. Have an array of sizes in both shapes, from the 1- 2’s, the 4-6’s up to the 8-10’s. Keeping in mind we will start with bristles and then finish with the sables.