Floral Still Life Painting
with James Brandess
June 7, 3:00–6:00 p.m.
Tuition: $100
Materials Fee: N/A
Learn to paint a floral still life in oils from a local master. Turn your focus to painting from observation, using a demo floral arrangement made that morning as the subject. Luxuriate in the colorful playness and compositional inspiration that only flowers can provide. Students will be required to bring their own materials. For a full-day making experience, during which you will make your own floral arrangement, sign up for the first part of this workshop, Flowering: History and Arrangement led by Maddie Reyna.
Plan to bring: Gessoed canvases, flat bristle brushes, oil paints, 1 pint of odorless paint thinner, drawing supplies (vine charcoal, pencil, white eraser, sketchbook), 3 empty tin cans, empty glass jar with lid, blue shop towels, 18 x 24 inch plexi glass palette, vinyl gloves, sunscreen, bug spray.
James Brandess, (he/him), is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He teaches landscape and still-life painting workshops at Ox-Bow. His painting travels have taken him to Vermont, Hawaii, Colorado, and Texas. He maintains his studio and gallery in downtown Saugatuck in the historic Old Post Office Building.
Photos courtesy of the artist.