Level: all

Sunday

Jul 27

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Jill Harrington Nichols

Fee: $145

This workshop will convince you that a simple sketch can be the key to creating a successful painting.

We’ll start the day with a quick discussion, demonstration and experimentation with a variety of quick sketching techniques.  We’ll talk about shapes, line and contour drawing, values, and about Notan — the Japanese notion that refers to the balance and interaction between light and dark areas in art and design.

Note that these will be sketches, not drawings, and are an integral part of the process to establish space, values, and composition.  Your final sketch which will set you up success during the painting portion of this workshop. Following the sketch, we will paint. Please bring a photo for your reference

This class is appropriate for Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor painters who have had at least some experience with their medium.

SUPPLY LIST:

Reference Photo or Photos

Sketching Supplies: 

  • Sharpener
  • gum kneaded eraser
  • White paper (sketchbook)
  • Sharpie
  • HB, 2B pencils
  • Toned paper(sketchbook)

Painting Supplies: 

  • Substrate: canvas/panels/watercolor paper, Arches, or Fabriano, up to 11” x 14”
  • Brushes: Be sure to get filberts and rounds with one angled brush. Round #0 #2, #4, Filbert #2 #4, #8, #10, #12, Flat or Angled #4, 1” or 2” Flat, Small Bright.
  • Rags, Viva, or Blue Shop paper towels.
  • Palette: Oil – Disposable Pad or wooden palette. Acrylic, sealable box with sponge and disposable pad
  • Plastic bag(s) for waste

PAINTS: The basic palette in any medium consists of warm and cool tones of each primary color:  
Yellow: Cadmium Yellow Pale/light or lemon) and Cadmium Yellow Deep
Reds: Cadmium Red Light and Alizarin Crimson
Blues: Ultramarine (best for getting dark rich colors), and Cerulean (Williamsburg Sevres or Old Holland Scheveningen Blue Light are intense pigments of this hue)
Earthtones: yellow ochre and burnt sienna
White– titanium and optional zinc, which is a more transparent white

Optional Materials:

Wet wipes, Gloves, and/or barrier cream to protect hands.

Oils: Palette Scraper, linseed oil, Acrylic: Retarder to slow down the drying, Gel medium, Watercolor: Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, natural sponge, small spray bottle

You will find a selection of lists to shop from at Dick Blick. Check both the plein air list and the medium list, i.e., Oil, acrylic, or watercolor.

You will find me under

Dick Blick U, The state is ‘online’, Then scroll down to

Jill Nichols Art Lessons Or click

https://tinyurl.com/2p8c9t6x

If you have any other questions, please email me at jill@jillnichols.com.

About the Instructor:

Jill Harrington Nichols’ painting explores both the earthbound and outer expanses of our divine cosmos. Her sense of color and composition has developed over the course of 30+ years as a commercial artist. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2000, she set her focus on painting, at first training at the Art Students League in NYC, and in 2015 earned her MFA in painting at Western Connecticut State University.

Her commissioned painting of Washington D.C. appeared as a backdrop for James Comey’s interview on “Face the Nation” while another made its appearance on Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” mini-series. Her artwork “Phi,” celebrating the divine feminine was a part of the “Nasty Woman” art social movement in New Haven and then went on to be installed in the Vatican Observatory Museum.

She has received awards from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Connecticut Office of the Arts. An active participant in the art communities throughout Connecticut, she has served as vice-president for the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Valley Arts Council and exhibited at the Lyme Art Association, Carriage Barn, Greenwich Art Society, and Lyman Allen Museum.

Jill is an instructor at the Silvermine Art School, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and conducts painting workshops locally and abroad. Jill now offers videos on YouTube and holds real-time online painting critiques.

Artist Statement
My painting is poetry, a lyrical composition of color and light. When painting,
I am in the moment, thoroughly present and enraptured. I experience a sense of
peace, as well as an urgency to capture and share the moment. It is a
privilege to paint. Taking in the invisible birdsong, whispering winds, fragrant
mist, and luminous clouds, often gone before the brush touches the paint.
Inadvertently documenting the vanishing in a slipknot along the
infinite.