Expressive Observation: Still Life Painting – Pt. II
Continue your artistic journey with Sam Paonessa in this focused three-week course (one exercise), building upon your existing painting and drawing skills. This module is designed to help you investigate a more diverse range of compositions and explore colour relationships, pushing the boundaries of your visual vocabulary. We will refine your understanding of light and shadow, enabling you to create compelling forms and textures with confidence and nuance. Through engaging demonstrations and tailored critiques, you will be guided in developing a more intuitive and gestural approach to representing the world around you.
This course emphasizes cultivating a unique artistic voice, encouraging you to interpret still life subjects with a personal expression rather than mere replication. You will learn to perceive and translate the inherent beauty and character of objects, transforming them into dynamic and evocative painted narratives. Prepare to elevate your observational skills and enrich your still life practice.
- Construct more intricate and dynamic still life compositions.
- Analyse and apply advanced colour relationships to enhance form and atmosphere.
- Refine techniques for rendering light, shadow, and texture with greater precision.
- Develop a more personal and expressive approach to observational painting.
- Cultivate a deeper understanding of narrative potential within still life subjects.
Please Note: If you have acrylic or oil materials already, please use what you have. It is not compulsory to have all the items listed.
- Paint Colours (oils or acrylics): Titanium White (Large tube), Cadmium Yellow Light or Hansa Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue (Large Tube), Thalo Blue, Quinacridone Magenta or Medium Magenta, Dioxazine Purple (optional), Phthalo Green or Viridian Green, Permanent Green or Green Light (optional), Sap Green (with a strong value), Cadmium Orange or other Yellow Orange, Raw Umber (optional), Indanthrene Blue (Indigo Blue in oils – optional), Transparent Red Oxide (optional), Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black or Paynes Gray.
- Gesso – small tub (ex. Liquitex or Golden)
- Matte Medium
- For Oils Only: GAMBLIN non-toxic Safflower Gel Medium in a tube OR Galkyd (Fast Drying Medium)
- Disposable Palette (9×12 or larger)
- Filbert Brushes: 3, 4, 8, 10
- Flat Brushes: #3, 6, 8, 12 (Soft hair/synthetic)
- Round Brushes: #1, 2, 4 (soft hair synthetic or sable)
- 1 – 2-inch-wide house painting brush (or even wider for applying tints)
- Shapers: Princeton Catalyst White Silicone Mini-blade #4
- Brayer: 2” or 4”
- Frederix Canvas Pad 9×12 or 12×16
- Canvas, Birch or Masonite Panels (or a combination to try various surfaces)
*Square cradled panels or boards are recommended when using a brayer - Mixed media sketchbook (XL Canson 9”x12”)
- Pencils or Watercolour Pencils in gray, black, brown for sketching
- Eraser
- Sharpener
- Apron
- Green painters’ tape
- Nitrile or Latex gloves if desired
- Artist’s Soap (Baby Oil Or Murphy’s Oil Soap for oil painters) for cleaning brushes
- We will be using various pieces of free image editing software for the class (no purchase necessary).
Details
Fall 2025
Mondays, November 24 - December 8 | 9:30am - 12pm ( 3 weeks )
Fee: $175 +HST
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