Painting Interior Spaces
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.
- Materials you will need to bring to the Painting Interiors workshop:
- 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 and Art Systems art supply stores. Do not bring hardware store-bought turpentine or Turpenoid Natural. You will also need to bring a container for your thinner.
- Palette Knife: You will be mixing colors on your palette with a knife most of the time, so it is important to have a 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, canvas-covered panels, or paper (printmaking paper primed with gesso or acrylic makes a good inexpensive surface). Bring several surfaces no smaller than 9 inches on any side and no larger than 20 inches on any side. In each session you will start a new painting and bring it to a resolution of some kind, so plan to have at least one surface for each session.
- Other:
- Bring a small sketchbook, several drawing pencils or charcoals, and a block eraser or soft eraser.
- I look forward to seeing you in the workshop at Crealde.
Robert Ross
A member of Crealde's Painting & Drawing faculty, Robert Ross's paintings have been exhibited in a growing number of venues throughout Central Florida, including Anita Wooten Gallery at Valencia State College, Winter Park City Hall, Orlando City Hall, Maitland City Hall, Orange County Chambers, Gallery at Avalon Island, and Casselberry Art House. He has been in the Winter Park Paint Out sponsored by the Albin Polasek Museum, and he has won several awards for his paintings in the Winter Park Autumn Art Festival. He received his art education at Oakland University, Crealde School of Art and in master workshops taught by Stuart Shils. He is represented by Art on Douglas Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.