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Oil Painting with Rodd Ambroson
October 3
$15.00 – $195.00
Oil Painting with Rodd Ambroson
8 sessions
Thursdays 4-7pm
10/3 -11/21
$195
Join Master Artist Rodd Ambroson for this 8 session introduction to oil painting. Participants will be able to paint competently at an introductory level. Drawing will be emphasized. Working from home is highly encouraged and will support your in-class instruction.
4-5pm (optional) 1st hour is Beginner Oil Painting Basic Instructions
5-7pm is open studio painting with critique, feedback and customized instruction.
Production goals/options with demonstration:
- Still life
- Self portrait
- Landscape
- Imaginary
Skill Sets
- Preparation for painting support/surface
- Stretch canvas
- Jesso surface
- Understanding of tools and pigments used in oil painting
- Brushes/Pallet knives
- Cleaning supplies and techniques
- Understanding color theory
- Mixing paint
- Producing compliments of three primary colors
- Understanding composition
- Golden mean
- Rule of thirds
- 60% 40% light dark contrast
- Basic rules to oil painting
- Fat over lean
- Thick over thin
- Slow drying over fast drying
- Never put your pallet on your chair 🙂
- Most importantly, increased visual acuity
Pre-registration Required.
Adults 15 and older.
Limited to 6 spaces. (Waiting list available)
In class use only supplies are available. Supplies must be purchased to take home.
Contact:
Arianna Olsen
541-432-0505 x2
Instructor Bio:
Rodd Ambroson – BFA Painting/Drawing, MA Medical Illustration. Medical Illustrator for sixteen Years. Bronze figurative sculptor for twenty-four years. Taught drawing/figure drawing adjunct faculty for nine years.