Painting Interior Spaces Like Matisse
PD-Workshop | Available
***Two-day workshop on Saturday January 10 and Sunday January 11***
Create colorful paintings of an interior inspired by Matisse’s rooms with a view. The studio will be decorated with colorful, patterned fabrics, with a still life near a window. Learn to capture shapes, lights and darks, colors and mood. Aim to complete one painting each day. Open to students painting in oils, acrylics, and pastels.
Note: This workshop is open to those painting in oils, acrylics or pastels. The materials below apply mainly to oil painters, so if anything isn’t relevant to your medium please ignore.
Brushes: Bring half-inch-wide to one-inch-wide round, filbert and flat brushes. The bristles should be soft, flexible, and longish. No short stiff brushes, please!
Paints: We will paint with a limited palette. Our main colors will be titanium white, a cool red (such as alizarin), ultramarine blue and cadmium yellow light (please note: light, not medium); our secondary colors will be cadmium red, cerulean blue and yellow ochre. I will teach and demonstrate in oils.
Thinners: If you use thinners with your oil paint, please bring only odorless artist’s grade turpentine or thinner. You can find it at Sam Flax or Michael’s art supply stores. Do not bring hardware store-bought turpentine or Turpenoid Natural. Also bring a container for your thinner.
Palette: Bring a palette or stiff flat surface large enough to lay out the above 7 colors, plus twice as much space for mixing several piles of colors at once. You don’t need to buy a specialized palette. A sheet of thin plywood, masonite or even foam core board will do the job. My palette is made of plywood and measures about 18x24 inches.
Palette Knife: You will be mixing colors on your palette with a knife most of the time, so it is important to have a metal palette knife that is longish (about as long as your middle finger), pointed and flexible, and has a handle similar to a trowel.
Painting surfaces: Bring your preference of surfaces – stretched canvases or canvas-covered panels. Bring two surfaces no smaller than 20 inches on any side. In each session we will start a new painting and bring it to a resolution of some kind, so plan to have at least one surface for each day.
Other:
Bring a small sketchbook;
Several drawing pencils or vine charcoals;
A block eraser or soft eraser.
Robert Ross
Robert Ross’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Central Florida. He was honored in 2020 with a solo exhibit at the Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been exhibited at Polk Museum of Art (Lakeland, Fla.), Casa Feliz Historical House, City Arts Gallery, Mills Art Gallery, Arts on Douglas Gallery, Leslie Curran Gallery, Anita Wooten Gallery at Valencia State College, Winter Park City Hall, Orlando City Hall, Maitland City Hall, Orange County Chambers, and Casselberry Art House. He has participated several times in the Winter Park Paint Out sponsored by the Albin Polasek Museum. He was honored with a Best in Show Award at the DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts and has won awards for his paintings in the Winter Park Autumn Art Festival and other festivals in Central Florida. He received his art education at Oakland University, Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, and in master workshops taught by Stuart Shils. He is represented by Arts on Douglas Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., and ARTicles Gallery in St. Petersburg, Fla. Website: www.robertrossart.com