Workshops

SUPPLY LIST…PHYLLIS PRANSKY 239-642-7649

BRING SUPPLIES YOU HAVE OR WHATS AFFORDABLE... ( for a plein air class bring an OUTDOOR EASEL)

ASW Artist Supply Warehouse SALE catalogue is great..1-800-995-6778  www.aswexpress.com

My goal is to teach you to bring your paintings to a 3d believable  life  

hard to do from a photo which are chemical and the artist winds up copying them instead of communicating personal vision… (discussion will follow IN CLASS)

Please bring a personal simple setup (3 objects of different size, consider shapes and color too...perhaps cloth for backdrop.  Giving life to your painting becomes easier when a setup has personal meaning .  You will learn to write, produce, direct, choreograph and COMMUNICATE your concept;   Your own story on canvas, your own feelings of interest, love, opinion etc… (discussion to follow in class)     A large enough cardboard box to put your setup in  will give you a stage for your play   also makes it easier to carry stuff… The  essential oil paint colors are the primary colors: red, yellow blue plus black and  white

I find I use the following colors: ** essential to bring

**Permalba White Large Tube

Cadmium Yellow Light

**Cadmium Yellow Medium

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Cadmium Orange

**Cadmium Red Light

**Cadmium Red Medium

 **Alizerin Crimson

Permanent Rose

Diozinine Purple

Manganese Blue or Cerulean Blue  

Cobalt Blue

**Ultramarine Blue

Ivory Black

GREENS:       Sapp green (HANDY FOR LANDSCAPE)      viridian green      phalo green

There are so many other colors to experiment with and talk about..some transparent some opaque…

So many other colors to experiment with and talk about

I SUGGEST THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD BECAUSE STUDENT BRANDS HAVE A LOT OF FILLERS.  IT”S DISCOURAGING TO PUT YOUR ENERGY INTO SOMETHING THAT DRIES WITHOUT LUST OR IS  MEDIOCRE IN THE FINISHED LOOK…I enjoy different brands but I believe Gamblin is a good brand as is Windsor Newton, not student grade Winton…

PALETTE KNIFE…steel

BRUSHES:    bristol hair for oil:   a small one for detail #1-3 #5 is my average size #8 is good

I use bristal filberts # 1, 2 &3   #5  and #8 ….i experiment with different ones, fan brushes, brights, flats, chisels

I use soft sable like #8 #12 and a thin signing brush and i love mongoose brushes

PALETTE  12x16  can be wood, plastic, lucite, paper, glass (stephen quiller has a gray paper pallet pad that I use for quick cleanup but glass ¼  ½ in tempered glass cleans very easy…………

I love to work on glass…i had mine cut at the glass shop to fit my palette box

OIL & TURP DOUBLE CLIP ON CUPS TO HOLD OIL AND TURPENOID

MASTERSON PALETTE HOLDER BOX is like tupperware   i have mine for many years…..it helps me keep paint fresh for days and keeps my car and studio clean…

SMALL COLD PRESSED LINSEED OIL

TURPENOID IN BLUE CAN   (no turpentine please)

CANVASES 16x20 0r your choice        

Paper towels/rags (bounty)  Hand wipes, table cover

OPTIONS: Ruler  Camera, Tape recorder or pad and pencil for notes (recorder is great) set it on and forget it..notes takes away from listening, ear phones with music if you like

 Individual instruction and demonstrations at your own easel.  You will gain an understanding of the principles of fine art and develop your abilities, your taste, your style! Get started on your essential process to start, develop and complete a fine art painting. Learn the relationships of oil paint handling and what it can do. Practice your brushwork, composition, color, value, tone, line, rhythm, texture, size framing, selling. I will address the personal challenges of each student Individually..  I will mentor and teach (with understanding of the students ability)  what has been taught to me or what I have discovered in my own daily practice (35 years almost 7 days a week)

Learn or hone up and use Principles and Language of Fine Art,form,air and poetry of space
Approach to still life, seascape,landscape,portraiture,marine painting. animal painting

Learn the effect of light and you can paint anything. shadow control, interlocking shapes,
DRAWING LIKE A PAINTER, solid planes
Develop a painting as a whole rather than individual pieces or things
Develop edges, how to make grays, using grays as opposed to all clean plastic color, how to handle mud,
        (which is warm gray)

Clarify your own definition of beautiful and what you want to say through your work. Come to this class with enthusiasm and A PERSONAL SET UP and a good nights sleep... see supply list. for further info email ppransky@aol.com

If its agreeable with the class we will have a class critique at the end of the day
PREVIOUS STUDENTS CALL OR EMAIL ME... I WILL GIVE ASSIGNMENT TO BRING TO CLASS 
I WILL SO ENJOY WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU....PHYLLIS

BRING OUTDOOR EASLE MEET AT THE ARTLEAGUE ATRIUM 9:30-4

Plein Aire painting pushes the speed of creating a painting.  Light moves and shadows move and wind blows...but its exciting and doable..

Individual instruction and demonstrations at your own easel.  You will gain an understanding of the principles of fine art and develop your abilities. your taste, your style! Get started on your essential process to start, develop and complete a fine art painting. Learn the relationships of oil paint handling and what it can do. Practice your brushwork, composition, color, value, tone, line, rhythm, texture, size framing, selling. I will address the personal challenges of each student Individually..  I will mentor and teach (with understanding of the students ability)  what has been taught to me or what I have discovered in my own daily practice (35 years almost 7 days a week)

Learn or hone up and use Principles and Language of Fine Art,form,air and poetry of space
Approach to still life, seascape,landscape,portraiture,marine painting. animal painting
Learn the effect of light and you can paint anything. shadow control, interlocking shapes,
DRAWING LIKE A PAINTER, solid planes
Develop a painting as a whole rather than individual pieces or things
Develop edges, how to make grays, using grays as opposed to all clean plastic color, how to handle mud,
        (which is warm gray)

Clarify your own definition of beautiful and what you want to say through your work. This creates your own style and taste.

Come to this class with enthusiasm and A PERSONAL SET UP and a good nights sleep... see supply list. for further info email ppransky@aol.com

If its agreeable with the class we will have a class critique at the end of the day
PREVIOUS STUDENTS CALL OR EMAIL ME... I WILL GIVE ASSIGNMENT TO BRING TO CLASS 
I WILL SO ENJOY WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU....PHYLLIS

BRING OUTDOOR EASLE MEET AT THE ARTLEAGUE ATRIUM 9:30-4

Plein Aire painting pushes the speed of creating a painting.  Light moves and shadows move and wind blows...but its exciting and doable and you forget everything else in the world including yourself.

Individual instruction and demonstrations at your own easel.  You will gain an understanding of the principles of fine art and develop your abilities, your taste, your style! Get started on your essential process to start, develop and complete a fine art painting. Learn the relationships of oil paint handling and what it can do. Practice your brushwork, composition, color, value, tone, line, rhythm, texture, size framing, selling. I will address the personal challenges of each student Individually..  I will mentor and teach (with understanding of the students ability)  what has been taught to me or what I have discovered in my own daily practice (35 years almost 7 days a week)

Learn or hone up and use Principles and Language of Fine Art,form,air and poetry of space
Approach to still life, seascape,landscape,portraiture,marine painting. animal painting
Learn the effect of light and you can paint anything. shadow control, interlocking shapes,
DRAWING LIKE A PAINTER, solid planes
Develop a painting as a whole rather than individual pieces or things
Develop edges, how to make grays, using grays as opposed to all clean plastic color, how to handle mud,
        (which is warm gray)

Clarify your own definition of beautiful and what you want to say through your work. This creates your own style and taste.

Come to this class with enthusiasm and A PERSONAL SET UP and a good nights sleep... see supply list. for further info email ppransky@aol.com

If its agreeable with the class we will have a class critique at the end of the day
PREVIOUS STUDENTS CALL OR EMAIL ME... I WILL GIVE ASSIGNMENT TO BRING TO CLASS 
I WILL SO ENJOY WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU....PHYLLIS

WORKSHOP IS BEING HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CALUSA GARDEN CLUB SHOW

FLOWERS ARE PURE FORM, light shines through their petals, each petal leaves its shadow on another, colors are not what they seem to be...a white flower can be blue or green, a red flower can be purple or orange or fucia..........Individual instruction and demonstrations at your own easel.  You will gain an understanding of the principles of fine art and develop your abilities, your taste, your style!

Get started on your essential process to start, develop and complete a fine art painting. Learn the relationships of oil paint handling and what it can do. Practice your brushwork, composition, color, value, tone, line, rhythm, texture, size framing, selling. I will address the personal challenges of each student Individually..  I will mentor and teach (with understanding of the students ability)  what has been taught to me or what I have discovered in my own daily practice (35 years almost 7 days a week)

Learn or hone up and use Principles and Language of Fine Art,form,air and poetry of space
Approach to still life, seascape,landscape,portraiture,marine painting. animal painting

Learn the effect of light and you can paint anything. shadow control, interlocking shapes,
DRAWING LIKE A PAINTER, solid planes
Develop a painting as a whole rather than individual pieces or things
Develop edges, how to make grays, using grays as opposed to all clean plastic color, how to handle mud,
        (which is warm gray)

Clarify your own definition of beautiful and what you want to say through your work.

Come to this class with enthusiasm and A PERSONAL SET UP and a good nights sleep... see supply list. for further info email ppransky@aol.com

If its agreeable with the class we will have a class critique at the end of the day

PREVIOUS STUDENTS CALL OR EMAIL ME... I WILL GIVE ASSIGNMENT TO BRING TO CLASS 

I WILL SO ENJOY WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU....PHYLLIS