Oil Painting Workshop with Chuck Mardosz

Chuck works and teaches predominantly in the representational style of painting. This workshop will focus on figurative and landscape subject matter. Students will work on composition, color harmony, values and accuracy in drawing and perspective. Chuck will demonstrate these skills at the beginning of the workshop and then students will be working on their own paintings with his guidance along the way. Students should bring their own references to work from, Chuck will also have some available in the form of printed photos.

Materials needed for this workshop are as follows:

• An easel
• A set of oil paints, any brand, colors needed are: titanium white; cadmium yellow pale; yellow ochre; cadmium red light; alizarin crimson; ultra marine blue; cerulean blue; viridian green; burnt sienna; black.
• 3 Canvas panels or canvas boards, any sizes between 12 x 16 to 16 x 20
• 4 Brushes – oil painting brushes size 2, 4, 6 and 8
• Pallet knife
• Pallet, paper pallet is ok
• Solvents – Gamsol or odorless mineral spirits and a container
• Paper towels – Chuck’s favorite is Viva