Plein air painting

INSTRUCTOR: PAUL GALLO

Tuesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 (4 classes)

10:00am - 1:00pm

$75.00 Members…..$90.00 Non-member

FIRST CLASS WILL BE HELD AT:

Schiavoni Park
9060 Bridge Road
Hummelstown PA

Grab your hat and join Paul for a 4-week plein air workshop with different locations around the Hershey Area. During the first class Paul will demonstrate and explain the basics of plein air landscape painting, but still allow time for you to begin your own landscape painting.  Future class locations to be discussed at the first class. All locations will always have parking and a bathroom.

 The class will cover plein air setup, basic guidelines of plein air painting, color mixing, brush work, working with edges, thin and thick paint application, simplifying the subject, and composition.  

Students will need to supply their own materials and a portable easel. You might also want to bring a folding chair. 

Please make checks payable to Hershey Area Art Association (HAAA)

mail to PO Box 654, Hershey, PA 17033

Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting -- Materials List –

Paul Gallo 717-608-7190

FRENCH EASEL OR PORTABLE EASEL

BASIC PAINT COLORS: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Alizarin Crimson Permanent Burnt Sennia and Titanium White. Optional: Pthalo Blue, Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Red.

PAINT BRANDS:

Recommended Brands: Windsor Newton, Gamblin, Utrecht

Less Expensive Recommended Brands: Winton, Gamblin 1890, Utrecht Studio I don’t recommend using student grade paints.

BRING PAPER TOWELS – Viva is a good choice, but any quality paper towel.

BRUSHES:

Brushes come in three basic shapes – rounds, brights/flats and filberts. Rounds are long and tubular, like a watercolor brush. Brights and flats are flat and square, with brights being short and flats being longer. Fiberts combine the advantage of flats but creating the softer paint edge of a round. I use mostly brights, and filberts, but each type of brush gives you a unique mark.

Bring whatever brushes you have but it would be good to have these three or four brs hes a such as: Fiberts: #6 or #8, Large flat or bright; about 1” wide, Smaller flat or bright; about 1/4” wide

PALETTE:

Hand held palette, or plastic resealable. (Option; Disposal paper palettes make clean up easy.)

PALETTE KNIFE:

Metal palette knife, size about 3” in length. For color mixing, scraping paint, laying-in bold color and cleaning the palette.

SOLVENT/ AND CONTAINERS:

Turpenoid (odorless substitute for turpentine) and a container to hold Turpenoid. (Tuna can works well)

CANVAS OR ART BOARDS:

11” x 14” stretched canvas, canvas board or Masonite. Bring 1or 2 per day.

ALSO:

- Be sure to bring a pencil and paper for planning sketches and notes.

**A MUST FOR FIRST CLASS....

1- Pencil and paper

2- One canvas or canvas board — 11” x 14” is a good size 3- Paints, brushes and palette knife (see above)

4- Palette

5- Turpenoid

6. Paper towels

7. French easel or equivalent (we have a couple easels that we can provide if you do not have one)

8. Lawn chair