Dutch Golden Age Still Life Painting
1 Day Workshop | Available
During this workshop, students will get the day to paint from a dynamic still life arrangement inspired by the elaborate candle-lit Dutch still lifes, or “Vanitas”, from the Golden Era. The workshop will touch upon the key building blocks of creating a successful still life painting: sketching out main shapes and adjusting proportion; and blocking in colour and rendering shadows and highlights. Students will create one "alla-prima" still life painting (oil or acrylic on canvas or panel) during the workshop.
Base Tuition: $120 + Material Fee: $8 = $128 Total
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- What You Will Learn
- How to start a still life painting: sketching and blocking in colour
- Key components of painting from a still life: rendering shadows and highlights, colour mixing and adding dimension
- How to set up a dynamic still life: lighting, object orientation, playing with colour theory of arrangements
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- A medium sized, pre-gessoed canvas or panel, 18" x 20" or smaller (feel free to bring more canvases if you like to experiment)
- Paint brushes
- Palette (or any non-absorbant surface to paint on)
- Oil or Acrylic paint colors: Titanium white, burnt umber, Payne's gray, sap green, phthalo green, alizarin crimson, and a red, yellow and blue (no specific type needed for last three)
- If painting in oil, pebeo 'bright blue’ oil paint is recommended for painting highlights!
Emily Joyce
Emily is a Toronto-based painter and paintings conservator. She specializes in the study of paint materials, from traditional egg tempera and oil paints to contemporary acrylics and mediums. The crossover of art and science in her profession has allowed her an in-depth exploration of the history and techniques of painters from a range of historical time periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism and Pop Art. These studies have inspired her classes and workshops at the TSA. Emily has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a minor in art History and a Master's of Art Conservation (Queen’s University), as well as a certificate in Traditional Materials, Methods of Painting and Restoration techniques through San Gemini Preservation Studies in Italy. Outside of the TSA, Emily works at Toronto Art Restoration in the west end, conserving a range of artworks from Tom Thomson landscapes to Michael Snow's Eaton Centre’s Geese.