Penelope Gilbert - Animals in Oil Workshop

Maranoa Artists are pleased to welcome Penelope Gilbert on the 22nd and 23rd of June. A creative and informative weekend of Animals in Oils. Penelope has been creating award-winning artworks for over 40 years. She combines fine craftsmanship and her incredible talent to truly capture the essence of her subject.

This workshop will show you clean studio practice with oils. Setting out your palette for easy mixing, mixing of colours. Application of technique with painterly brush marks. If you wish to free up with your painting this is the workshop for you.

Oil Painting Animals with Penelope Gilbert-Ng -- Materials List

Brushes----- Flat 1”, ½”, 1 rigger plus any that you have already

Palette------ reasonably large. A piece of ply ( I don’t particularly like a white palette due to tonal mixing confusion, so a medium tone palette is best. mid grey or brown wood) Always season new wood with linseed oil or undercoat with paint to avoid the palette sucking oil out of paint, no ice-cream lids please

Palette Knife. The trowel type for painting and mixing, medium size

*Liquin medium.. Linseed oil can be used instead

*Art Spectrum Lean Medium

*Langridge Low Toxic Paint Medium (odourless)

Odourless Solvent A small container with lid to put solvent in, lots of rag or paper towels (Viva brand is the best)

One of the above mediums marked Red *

Small container or dipper or jar lid for solvent.

Easels

Cloth to cover the table

Paints

*Titanium White

* Raw umber

*Aurora Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Pale

*Cadmium lemon

Yellow Ochre Pale

*Permanent Rose or Magenta

Winsor Red or Cadmium Red I use *Cadmium Scarlet in people portraiture

*Cobalt Blue light

*French Ultramarine Blue

*French Ultramarine violet

*Terra Verte

*Viridian

( * ) these colours I use for Human Portraiture

Bring the colours you like to use as long as there are warm and cool variations in reds, yellow and blues. No black we mix blacks. If you do use black then Ivory black as good mixer with yellows to make greens.

Canvas

A canvas or canvas board or canvas paper (you will need a support for paper and clips) I shall be using Ampersand gessobord any small size as in---size 18” X 14” 12”x12” 6"x6"or 14” X 10” Small is easier to control so a smaller size is better depending on your previous knowledge on oil. This enables you to finish the painting on the day.)

Sketch book for notes and sketches. Charcoal stick (Willow) and biro.

Apron

Fitted rubber gloves or barrier cream

Mahl stick

Animal portrait photos. Good to use an iPad with images on it as you can enlarge to see any detail needed. Photocopies aren’t good to work from. No images from book or magazines Use own images.

Your enthusiasm most essential.