Description
Building a Strong Painting with Victoria Templeton
Time: Wednesday Evenings – 5:30pm – 7:30 pm
Dates: April 2-May 7, 2025 (6 weeks)
Cost: Members: $155 members / Non-Members: $185
This class is designed for all levels in oil or acrylic. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced painter, you need critical blocks to create a strong painting. We’ll explore the major foundation, composition, its physical placement and also emotional linear formats. Value and contrast will be the
second pillars of the concrete work. Finally, we’ll unify and balance your piece with a focus on color, texture and other elements.
Supplies:
I’ve compiled a list of course materials for your course at BLICK to make it easier for you to prepare for the semester. It will be available to you throughout the course. To visit this list, please go to https://www.dickblick.com/
Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions. However, buy where is best for you.
-Folder or binder for handouts
-Sketchbook or drawing papers (8×10 or smaller)
-Photo copies of pictures taken by you or original photos in your collection. No magazine or digital by another artist.
-Drawing materials: pen, pencil, marker, etc.
-Paint brushes: “2 or 1.5 “flat brush, no 8or 10 round brush. (If you are working w Acrylics synthetic brushes only)
-Any other brushes you want to work with, Palette knife
-Job Squad Towels (Heavier than paper towels. Mechanics use them)
-Palette (I like Masterson large paint rectangular version) For oil: Palette paper or freezer paper
-For acrylics palette paper: tracing or parchment paper Multi Media paper 11×14
-Ruler
Paints:
I recommend these colors. However if you have something similar that’s fine.
-Cad yellow light or Hansa yellow
-Cad yellow medium
-Cad red light (or napoleon red light, vermillion, scarlet) Alizarin
-Quinacridone Magenta Ultramarine Blue
-Phalo Blue green shade Burnt Umber
-Titanium white
-Ivory Black Mediums:
-Acrylic painters: matte medium fluid or paste
-Oil: odorless mediums only and carried in sealed jars
-Either: linseed, walnut, safflower oil, or Gamblin Solvent Free Medium
-Odorless Mineral spirits like Mona Lisa or Gamsol
Bio: A native San Franciscan and longtime California resident, Victoria discovered multiple forms of creative art everywhere. The abundance of fresh emerging art and old masters works inspired her drawing and painting at an early age. She majored in acting at Loyola Marymount University and studied costume design. For over twenty years she worked management in the luxury fashion industry. She loved the passion and creative process of designers. In the 1990’s, she explored fashion design and illustration but found her true life passion was fine art painting. In 2000, she studied with Roger Armstrong, a master painter and school founder at the Laguna College of Art and Design. With Roger as her mentor, Victoria learned boldness and to take risks. “It’s only paint and paper” he told her. Roger introduced her to plein air and shared many approaches to outdoor painting. He was one of the first participants in the famous Laguna Beach Invitational for Plein Air. When he died in 2007, the Irvine Fine Art Center asked Victoria to continue his class. She discovered another ardor, teaching. Her approach, like her mentor, encouraged students to lose fear, take risks and view painting as a process. Her key mantra is “Express your voice.” Later in 2015, Victoria and her husband, Bob, retired to Barnstable in Cape Cod. She put teaching aside and focused on building a body of new artwork, trying out new techniques. She occupies studio space at The Old Schoolhouse in Barnstable Village. She is a continuous participant of the CCAC plein air group and contributed to their second 2019 edition of Plein Air Painting on Cape Cod. She received recognition in several Cape Cod exhibitions. She is a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Center and happily teaching again.
“Child-like curiosity and play remains the most important part of my work. When I trust creative energy and stop my critic’s chatter, my paintings reflect the authentic relationship I forged with the subject. I paint in all mediums, using what feels best for me that day. I remember Roger’s motto- It is only paint and paper!”
Instragram: @brushandpenmakeart
