This workshop is an introduction to the various supplies and techniques used to create interesting and expressive abstract paintings using cold wax medium with oil paint. We will work on a variety of surfaces and explore the many ways to start and build up (or subtract) layers of deeply textured and intriguing works of art.  

In addition to speeding up drying time, Cold Wax brings an element of the unexpected to the painting process which is ideal for artists who wish to work more abstractly and intuitively. Cold wax medium and oil can be scraped, scratched, rubbed, pressed, pushed, added and subtracted. This ancient medium fosters versatility.

In this one day workshop, Kathy will share some of these techniques, and each participant will have the opportunity to create their own small cold wax and oil pieces on Arches Oil paper and experience working on alternate surfaces—Multi-Media Artboard and a primed cradled wood panel. Come prepared to let go and play!

There will be a 1/2 hour break, so please bring a sack lunch

Instructor: Kathy Roman

Capacity: 8 students

Registration and Fees

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• Members: $185.00; after 1/8/2020: $195.00

• Non-Members: $215.00; after 1/8/2020 $225.00

• Registration Required.

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MATERIAL LIST

Supplies Provided $35 Supply Fee, prepaid with tuition:

• 1 gessoed cradled wood panel 12”x12”

• 2 sheets Arches oil painting paper 12”x16”

• 1 MultiMedia Artboard 12”x12” or 11”x14”

• Cold wax medium 4 oz.

• 4.2oz Gamsol

• Palette paper

• Palette knife

Provided for use at workshop

• Messermeister bowl scrappers (squeegee)

• Assorted Princeton “wedges” (squeegee),

• flat and crenellated edges

• Brayers

• CitraSolve

• Scraping tools

• pottery scrapers, palette knives, mat board pieces

• Incising tools - finishing nail, skewer, chopstick, dental tools

• Oil paint: A selection of warm and cool grays, Titanium Buff and a few oil sticks.

• Charcoal, dry pigment

• Spray bottle, eye droppers, and hypodermic tools for solvents

• Tissue paper, newsprint

Materials to Bring

• A roll of paper towels

• Wax paper

• Tape: blue or green painters’ tape or white artist’s tape. 1”-1.5” (plus 3/4”recommended but optional)

• Old gift card or credit card (for applying/scraping paint)

• Disposable vinyl gloves

• Apron and/or old clothes. This can be messy!

• Rubber stamps and stencils if you have them

• Soft dry pastels if you have them (NOT oil pastels)

• Oil paint Recommended brands:

• Sennelier Rive Gauche oil colors - $4.59 and $11.61 www.jerrysartarama.com/sennelier-rive-gauche-fine-oil-color-paints

• Gamblin 1980 colors at Blick, in store and online and at Jerry’s, these are excellent budget student grade oil paints.

• Most of you will have many of these colors. Of course, any brand of professional paints are fine. In them the color load is much higher than student grade, which is why they are so expensive. Until you decide to make the investment in painting with oils, student grade is perfectly fine.

• Recommended colors of paint to bring: Cadmium Red Medium Alizarin Crimson Blue - Ultramarine or Indigo Permanent Orange Burnt Umber or Asphaltum Yellow - Cadmium Light or Lemon Indian Yellow Sap Green Ivory Black Titanium White Optional: Burnt Sienna Turquoise Phthalo Green