Overview
What will you learn?
Beginning Oils with Karen Philpott
Dates: Feb 4, 11, 18, 25 – 4 Week Course
Time: 9:30 to 12:30
Price: $120/100 ESAC Members
When I teach students who are just starting with oils, I use a limited palette.
Learning to mix color is critical to mastering oil painting.
Paint:
I prefer Gamblin oils but please bring the brand you are accustomed to using. Or you may use student grade oils
from Michael’s or Hobby Lobby.
150 ML tubes
- Titanium white
- Cadmium lemon yellow or Cadmium light yellow,
- Cadmium red light
- Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine blue
Burnt Umber
Palette:
I prefer a wooden or glass palette. If you use a paper palette please use only the gray paper inserts,
not white. I order my glass palette from dickblick.com
Posh Glass Tabletop Palette, Gray 16 x 20 size
Brushes:
#8 Hog bristle flat
#6 Hog bristle flat
#4 Hog bristle short flat
#8 Synthetic flat- #6 Synthetic flat
- #4 Synthetic flat
Canvas:
I use Raymar C15DP panels or Centurion Oil primed linen your preference
but no stretched canvas please.
Sizes:
16 – 9 x 12
1 – 11 x 14
Sketch pad 11 x 14 paintable paper I prefer Borden and Riley Kraft notepads Amazon or Blick.
Note pad and pen or pencil for taking notes
Orderless mineral spirits with container. I use Gamsol.
Paper towels, baby wipes. I use VIVA and Tub ‘O Towels from Home Depot or Lowes.
Palette knife and paint friendly clothes.
A $25 fee will be charged for all class refunds due to a withdrawal. Refunds will be given up to 14 days prior to the first day of the Academy term. Thereafter, no refunds will be given, unless the ESAC cancels the class.
Karen Philpott
Instructor
Art has always been my passion. After graduation from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree I enjoyed a long career as a graphic designer. My clients included Andy Griffith, Aaron Neville and CeCe Winans to name a few. Then by chance a client asked me to create a series of paintings…that one project re–ignited my original love of painting. I retired from computers and client meetings to pastures and tubes of oil paint! I paint every chance I get… from the beautiful Appalachian mountain range to the Grand Tetons, wild mountain thyme in the Scottish Highlands, or quiet marshes along the bay, nature is my muse. Influenced by the Impressionist artists of the past and American Plein Air artists past and present, my goal as a painter is to reflect the incredible scene that the natural world presents to me. My studio is located on the peaceful Eastern Shore of a small town I now call home, Fairhope, Alabama. Painting in my studio from small PleinAir sketches allows me to bring the scene back in a fresh exciting way. I am truly privileged to have continued my painters education with several nationally recognized landscape artists: Roger Dale Brown, Howard Friedland, and Scott Christensen. Christensen OPAM.
