Delaware Valley Art League

Monthly Meeting, Demonstration, and Workshop

 

MEMBERSHIP MEETING:

March 19, 2025 (Wednesday)

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Demo: Gregory Blue - Oils Plein Air

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​WORKSHOP:

March 25, 2025 (Tuesday) 

10:00am - 3:00pm

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Artist's Bio:

I reside in the borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania. I principally paint landscape, both studio paintings and plein air. My focus is expressing my thoughts and feelings by interpretating what I observe with emphasis on color and light. My palette remains vibrant, with simple compositions that allow an intentional examination of the subject and draw attention to the beauty I find in nature.

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Workshop Information:

This as an introduction to the experience of painting plein air. I will set up a simple still life outside that would enable students to have the experience of changing light and color that results from working with indirect light, the movement of the sun, and changes in weather. Emphasis on inspiration and focus on a single idea for your work. In the event that weather is prohibitive, I propose this alternative: set up a still life in one room while working in another. Participants would be permitted to view the still life as often as they wish, but they are not permitted to photograph, sketch, or make any physical reference while observing the still life. All work is executed in the other studio.
This process encourages the development of a visual memory. It also becomes a process for eliminating superfluous details and identify the essential components of constructing a composition.

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Supply List:

Small (less than 16” in any dimension) stretched canvas, canvas panels, or cradled wood panels. Supports should be primed with gersso or equivalent, sanded and prepared for painting. Tinted ground if preferred.

 

Variety of Bristle Brushes 1” and smaller, filberts, flats, brights
Variety of soft sable or manmade soft brushes 1” and smaller.
Palette knives
Oderless Mineral Spirits or equivalent
Container for Solvent
Viva Paper Towels or rags
Handheld Palette
Portable Easel

 

Basic Colors
Burnt Umber
Burnt Siena
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
French Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Yellow Light
Titanium White (Large Tube)

Indian Yellow
Phthalo Green
Cadmium Green
Sap Green

 

Additional Colors
Van Dyke Brown
Cadmium Red Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Cerulean Blue

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Click on the Workshop Registration Button below to secure your spot!

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PLEASE NOTE: The cost of workshops has been changed to $50.00 for members and $60.00 for non-members starting Oct 2024.