The Essence of Color and Light in Oil Painting

The Essence of Color and Light in Oil Painting

Adult Course | This program is completed

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States

106

Beginner, Intermediate

3/2/2023-4/6/2023

9:00 AM-12:00 PM MDT on Th

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$315.00

$267.75

Gain a deeper understanding of how strokes of paint add up to create "a harmonious oneness of the light" as we make colorful, rich, painterly studies from still life arrangements and eventually the portrait. Through creating one small painting, in each class, expect to improve your ability to interpret value and mix color, for representational painting.

  • Painting Surface

    • You can paint on any surface that you like. Ideally it is not too slick or absorptive. You can treat surfaces with matte acrylic medium or gesso to make it paint ready.

    • 5” X 7” to start. Bigger if you’d like as we progress. 7” X 9” or 8” X 10”.

    • If painting on paper or raw canvas, please bring a roll (or partial roll) of black gaffers tape to tape off edges and a small panel to attach your canvas or paper to.


    Brushes
    • Oil Media paint brushes, rectangular or filberts only ranging from 1/4” to 3/4”. 

    Medium and brush cleaner
    • Odorless spirits, ideally "Gamsol" in a sealable brush washing container
    - Medium of your choice (I use 50/50 Gamsol/Linseed Oil) in a small sealable container, like a baby food or pudding jar!

    Palette
    - Glass or wood palette, please.

    Additional supplies
    • Viva paper towels or plenty of rags
    • Small diamond shaped or rectangular shaped palette Knife

    Oil Paint:
    - titanium white
    - cadmium yellow light
    - ultramarine blue (not french)
    - permanent alizarin crimson
    - Transparent Red Oxide or Burnt Sienna
    - burnt umber

    - yellow ochre

Denise Dambrackas is a contemporary realist oil painter and mixed media artist living and working in Denver, Colorado.

After earning a BFA in 1995, she slowly, and income-willing, transitioned to a long professional career in graphic design. It wasn’t until 2018 that she returned her attention back to expanding her skill set in the fine art of oil painting, through study with some of the profession’s master teachers. She continues to study, hungry for knowledge and ideas on how to better facilitate her most unique expression as an artist.

For the love of oil painting, she dabbles in most all subject matters, but continues to return to the figure. In her current series of work, "Future Feminine" she ventures to smash gender-based limitations and inspire the girls of today. She says, “I’m dedicated to upholding the current trend of positive change in gender roles, I hope that my paintings will help the females of the future avoid the pernicious sense of doubt that has undermined their predecessor’s full potentials, for centuries. In the process, I’m finding my way through the same.”

Denise began teaching at the Art Students League of Denver in early 2023.