CPT 130-1-S24 | Approaches to Oil Painting

Course Overview:

Many questions arise when learning to work with oil paints such as; how to navigate wading through the mud, how long to wait for paint to dry, and what materials and techniques to implement. This course’s primary focus is to accompany you through this investigation, providing the fundamental skills needed to work with oil paints. To enrich your practice presentations will be provided that showcase examples of artists throughout history who have worked with oil paints in a variety of ways. Through rigorous observation of dynamic still lifes, you will become sensitive to shifts in hue, value, saturation, form, material, etc. This course provides students with the building blocks for developing a practice in painting comparable to a BFA foundations-level painting course.

Learning Objectives:

• Proper brush cleaning
• How and when to use a palette knife
• How to use mediums and solvents
• Oil painting techniques and processes 

Who is this course for?

This course is open to painters at all levels, though some experience with painting is helpful. If you have taken another one of Deanna Jacome's painting courses where you worked with acrylics, this is a wonderful accompaniment to deepen your relationship with painting!

6/3-7/8 (no class 6/17) 6 sessions, Mondays, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm

Tuition: $245 + $30 studio fee

CEUs: 1.8

522 Congress Street Room 402

Faculty:

Deanna Jacome was born in NH, and has spent her creative life in Salem, MA, Burlington, VT, and now Freeport, ME. She creates slow-sustainable artwork in the woods of Maine, inside of her tiny house studio, which she built in collaboration with her fiance. She received her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Book Arts and Art Education in 2015 and her MFA in Studio Fine Arts from Maine College of Art & Design. She is an interdisciplinary painter working with sustainably sourced paints and textiles. Her Ecuadorian heritage is at the root of her pursuit of fiber arts where she pursues natural dyeing, embroidery, and weaving as a way to intertwine her identity of place from both New England and South America. Her life as an artist and arts educator fuels her passion of activating the innate creativity within others and love of the process of making. She has taught children on the spectrum, run workshops across artistic disciplines, co-ran a nature art preschool, and was a Teacher’s Assistant in the Painting and Textiles & Fashion departments at MECA&D.

Supplies:

* Please note, we will go over your supplies in detail in Class 1

• Pencil
• student grade/basics oil paints: Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow, Cobalt Blue or Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Mars Black
• 2 - 4 paint brushes of various size (suitable for oil)
• palette knife
• 9” x 12” paper suitable for oil paints (suggestions: Bristol paper, Canson XL Oil and Acrylic Pads, Arches Oil paper pads)
• 16 fl. Ounces - Gesso 
• 16 fl. Ounces - Gamsol or Mineral Spirits (to clean brushes) *no Turpentine please
• Rags  
• 2 glass jars with lids 
• Painting palette
• Roll of painters tape
• Ruler (12”) 11” x 14 - 18” x 24”
• Stretched Canvas

Optional: Linseed oil, Galkyd, Neo Megilp (you can often get a sampler set)   *Drawing boards, bulldog clips, vine charcoal, & other various small materials will be provided.