Oil Painting Materials with Helen Oh

Oil Painting Materials with Helen Oh

Session | This program is completed

All levels

5/16/2014-5/18/2014

9:00 AM-4:00 PM CDT on Sun Fri Sat

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$340.00

How is an artist like a chef? They both love recipes!

Painting is more than adding color to a canvas. Artists like to experiment with their ingredients—pigments and oils—to formulate beautiful colors, brilliant and quick-drying oil mediums, and fine linen surfaces to paint on.

Join Helen Oh to learn about the variety of oil materials and how they work together. This three day workshop covers:

• How to select stretchers and canvases
• Assembling stretchers and using keys
• Stretching canvas
• Cooking glue for sizing raw linen and paper for oil painting
• Cooking natural gesso for panels
• Demonstrating oil gilding
• Making non-toxic natural paint

Students will make a sample canvas, a panel, and prepared paper. They will also create a color chart of swatches using natural paint. If time permits, we will paint an oil sketch using the paint made in class.

  • There is a $50 materials fee payable to the instructor.
  • This class meets in our northlight studio on the 3rd floor.
  • A supply list will be emailed to you when you register. Please contact the office at fineart1012@sbcglobal.net if you'd like to see a supply list in advance of registering.
Oh, Helen

Phone: 773-425-5524
Email: hoh1@fastmail.us
Website: http://www.cargocollective.com/helenoh

Helen Oh is a visual artist. She studied painting at the School of Visual Arts, the National Academy of Design, and The Art Students League in New York. Helen teaches studio art courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and annual workshops at the New York Academy of Art. Helen is a recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, and a Julius Hallgarten Painting Prize from the National Academy Museum. She has exhibited at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Terra Museum of American Art, and the Butler Institute of American Arts. Collections include Columbia University and The Americas Society in NYC. Helen regularly contributes articles to the Tutorials section of the Artists Magazine.