Oil Painting Workshops

Working with Oils

With Charles Philip Brooks
Dates: TBA
Times: 10AM to 4PM
One Day: $120.00
Two Days: $200.00

Size: 2 to 4

By providing hands-on experience, Charles shares his knowledge and passion for painting with oils.   Working with Oils is designed for you to learn oil painting basics or push your existing skills to the next level.

Materials needed for this workshop include:

1.Easel with clamp to secure a canvas.
2.Several 11 X 14 and 12 X 16 canvas panels (Fredrix*) or to stretch your own: Cotton or linen canvas, separate wooden stretcher bars , staples, canvas pliers, small hammer, and staple gun.
3.  Hand-held palette wood, paper, or plexiglass.
4.  Bristle brushes in various sizes.
5.  Linseed oil or pale drying oil.
6.  Oil paints in the following colors: (1 tube of each ) (Rembrandt or Gamblin*) White, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red or Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Green Light, Viridian, Cerulean or Sevres Blue, Ultramarine, and Ivory Black

*Recommended by instructor

About the Artist:

 

Charles Philip Brooks, born in North Carolina, studied in New England in the studio of highly respected Boston School authority Paul Ingbretson and with the renowned American Barbizon painter, Dennis Sheehan. He is primarily a landscape painter, focusing on the landscape of the southeastern United States.His work incorporates elements of impressionism and is firmly rooted in the American Barbizon/Tonalist tradition of landscape painting.�  He works out of the tradition established by such artists as George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Bruce Crane, John Francis Murphy, Dwight William Tyron, and North Carolina's own Elliott Daingerfield.�  Further influences include the painters Eugene Boudin and Charles-Francois Daubigny, as well as many other painters of the French Barbizon School.

 

Charles has recently been invited to instruct as an artist-in-residence for the Arts Center at the Imperial Centre in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

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