Description
Landscape Oil/Acrylic Painting with Robin Wessman
Thursdays, January 23 – February 13, 2025 (4 weeks)
Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
Location: Cape Cod Art Center, Studio A
Prices: Non-Member $126 / Member $106
This course will teach students how to create a landscape oil painting from start to finish. All stages of painting will be done in the studio. The class will include demonstrations by the instructor for each step including: drawing, underpainting, palette setup, paint layering and varnishing. Students will have the opportunity to put into practice each step along the way with close individual guidance by the instructor. Focus for the class will be placed on composition, values, form, and color. Information will be shared on painting techniques and the use of various mediums at different stages of painting. By the end of this class students will have the necessary tools to create a successful landscape painting. All skill levels of painters are welcome for this class.
Materials list – Painting in Oils on location and studio
- Recommended Oil Paints:
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Sap Green
- Ultramarine Blue
- Dioxazine Purple
- Titanium White
Optional Paints
- Cadmium Yellow Deep
- Cobalt Blue
- Raw Umber
- Red Oxide
- Yellow Oxide
- Alizarin Crimson
- Palette
- Assortment of brushes, flats and filberts, a small round, a rigger, and fan brush
- My preference brushes:
- #10 Utrecht 239 flat synthetic
- #4 Utrecht 239 flat synthetic
- #2 Utrecht 239 flat synthetic
- #2 Rosemary long flat bristle
- #4 Rosemary pure sable ser 77
- #12 Hamburg badger Fan – Creative Mark
- Palette knife (2” Diamond shape works best)
- Sketch pad (11×14 or larger)
- Pencils (2B or graphite)
- White eraser
- Primed panels or canvases (9×12 or 11×14 smooth texture)
- Odorless Mineral Spirits (Gamsol is best from Gamblin)
- Rags or paper towels
*Acrylic Paints would be ok if you want to use those, but the curriculum is taught for Oil
Instructor Bio Robin Wessman is a contemporary realist painter from Eastham, MA. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts & Education degree from the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth. His paintings are a reaction to the environment he lives in on Cape Cod and how he feels about the world around him. As a resident of Eastham, his landscapes are inspired by the natural beauty and light of the dunes and marshes, especially the preserved landscape of the Cape Cod National Seashore. His paintings are fueled by observation and imagination and invite the viewer to experience something beyond an accurate depiction subjects. He employs the indirect method of painting which begins with sketches and studies from life, followed by a combination of direct paint application and layers of transparent paint. One constant in all his work is the exploration of light and how it affects form and creates atmosphere. His work is represented by several galleries and may be found in private collections throughout the US and internationally.
