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

A02

Beginner, Intermediate

6/15/2023-7/20/2023

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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 Surfaces

    • You’ll need multiple painting surfaces for this class.

  • For mini studies, color chart homework and the like:

    • Cold pressed paper, water color paper, oil paper or just unstretched canvas.
    • The idea is that you have a cheap surface that can be cut small and stored easily.
    • Wait to cut this down (small), in class


  • For each class, you will do a new painting at 5”X7” (or anything close in surface area)

    • Sturdier options include: canvas panel, hardboard panel, stretched canvas
    • Lighter weight options include the same surfaces listed for your studies, above.


  • Brushes

    • Oil Media paint brushes, rectangular or filberts only ranging from 1/2“ to 1”


  • Medium and brush cleaner

    • Odorless spirits, ideally "Gamsol" in a sealable brush washing container

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    Palette

    - Glass or wood palette, please.

    Additional supplies

    • Masking tape or gaffers tape and a backing of any kind, this is to hold surfaces that are not sturdy on their own
    • Viva paper towels or plenty of rags
    • Small diamond shaped or rectangular shaped palette Knife


  • Oil Paints:

    • titanium white

    • cadmium yellow light

    • cadmium red medium

    • permanent alizarin crimson

    • ultramarine blue (NOT French)

    • burnt umber

    • yellow ochre

    • ivory black

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.