Each First Wednesdays (usually) meet the class on Zoom and get painting! Recordings posted by the next day. 11-noon ET. Recordings of the Zoom session will be up to watch for 1 month.
See 'Assignment' tab for updated January oil notes and watercolor notes. NEW
Feb. 5 city street
March 5 nocturne
April 2 still life
May 7
Jun. 4
July 2
Aug 6
Sept. 3 Tuscany Live
Oct. 1
Nov. 5
Dec. 3
Jan 7, 2026
Monthly Zoom invite will be here before our next paint session, also sent by email.
Matierials: please see the supply list for my usual supplies. The basic supplies will be suitable for following the demo.
January's paint used my basic palette of colors, a gray paper palette, and all media primed canvas (Centurion) 9x12". Three brushes... #2 flat brush (synthetic) , #6 filbert (natural hog hair), #4 flat (very beat up synthetic)
FINAL OIL ART NOTES: I felt the scene after the demo had potential but the edges, merging and glow needed to be better (unity/variety ratios). Probably the camera affected me 'seeing the whole scene' to some degree. Values were adjusted ... sand got darker (wet and dry sand both) and therefore waves and foam seemed lighter. This worked better. The foam is pale aqua green and purple in alternating dabs to create irridescence. The sky got repainted a bit and more peach glow. I lowered the horizon a little and made the landmass less dominant (smaller shape overall and added some tree forms).
WATERCOLOR NOTES: A great scene to try with watercolor!... do the sky wet-in-wet. Wet the sky area, swipe in some pale yellow and peach streaks, plop in some purple circles and football shapes for the clouds. Let mingle and dry. Put in the shapes of the pale foam and waves with very pale aqua and very light purple dabs. Let dry, or keep going for some merging paint and interesting edges. Next mix sand color with blue & burnt umber, place in the right side of the artwork, middle next... then start the ocean blue and aquas. Mix green and blue (have a paper towel ready to dab if it gets too dark). Load the brush and at a low angle scuff the paint on with a dry brush technique- this will create foam edges. Last do the horizon, be careful to keep this straight (make a line with a loaded brush and soften the bottom edge to mix into the rest of the sea). Creat the dark landmass last. For more on watercolor check out the videos in Fundamentals. I have great simple videos that show control of water levels.