INSIDE ACRYLICS PAINTING WORKSHOP with PHIL GARRETT
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| Playing with acrylics during Phil Garrett's workshop |
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WHEN: Friday –
Sunday, March 18 – 20, 2016
WHERE: if ART
Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC 29201
WHAT: A workshop for
painters of all skill levels seeking strategies for using acrylic paints, mediums and gels
to achieve a level of finesse usually associated with oil painting
techniques.
HOW
MUCH: $250 per participant, to be paid in advance by cash, check or credit card.
HOW
MANY: Limited to 15 participants.
WHAT TO
BRING: All tools, including synthetic brushes for thicker paint applications
(bristle type) and softer brushes for blending and
glazing; a water container; paper towels; one prepared canvas
or wood panel, 20 x 16 inches; #2 pencil; notebook; and
phone or tablet with camera (see workshop description below
for details).
WHAT
NOT TO BRING: paint, mediums and gel, all provided by Golden Acrylic, and
canvas board, provided by Garrett.
HOW: Register by
contacting if ART Gallery at (803) 238-2351 or wroefs@sc.rr.com to register
for the workshop.*
*Phil Garrett
& if ART Gallery reserve the right to cancel the workshop with a full refund
in case of insufficient participation.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
DAY ONE, Fri., March 4, 6:30 –
8 pm: Informal introduction with wine and cheese to discuss the paints,
media and gels used during the workshop and the best way to prepare canvas,
linen, wood panels, etc., to get the most from acrylic painting.
DAY TWO & THREE, Sat. &
Sun., March 5 & 6, 10 am – 4 pm: Learn which pigments provide clean
color mixing and a tried and true palette, how to paint in layers thick and
thin and complete several paintings that can serve as reference for future
paintings. One-hour lunch break; bring your lunch or go to one the many
restaurants near the gallery.
BONUS OFFER
$5.00 discount for participants during the class on Phil
Garrett’s widely acclaimed book, Inside
Acrylics: Studio Secrets from Today’s Top Artists, which highlights studio practices of
prominent South Carolina artists such as Mike Williams and Philip Mullen, both from Columbia, Edward Rice of North
Augusta and Patty
Brady, Glen
Miller and Jim
Campbell from Greenville.
Regular
price: $29.99; special workshop price, $24,99.
PHIL GARRETT
Phil Garrett is among his native South Carolina’s most
prominent artists and printmakers and owner of King Snake Press in Greenville,
S.C. Garrett has completed numerous
artist residences and taught painting and printmaking in venues
across the United States, including The Penland School of Craft in Penland,
N.C. He joined the Golden Acrylic Working Artists Program in 1999 and has
lectured and taught acrylic painting in the United States, Japan and Europe. Garrett’s
work is represented in the South Carolina State Art Collection, the Greenville
County (S.C.) Museum of Art and other public and private collections in Europe,
Japan and the United States.
THE WORKSHOP
The
workshop will cover how to get oil-like effects using acrylic paints, mediums
and gels, including the new OPEN paints. These paints allow for an extended
working time that can give painters much more control over blending and overall
manipulation to achieve wonderful controlled effects. The paints also can be
used in combination with existing Heavy Body and Fluid Acrylics and their
mediums, gels and additives. This provides painters a truly comprehensive
system of paints.
On
a prepared canvas or panel, workshop participants will work from a selfie taken
with your phone or tablet to make a subtractive underpainting using Open
Acrylics, complete a value underpainting in grays and go over the best paint
and gel combinations for alla prima
painting.
The
workshop will cover overpainting, blending and glazing. At the end, Garrett will
discuss how to correctly varnish the completed painting. Along the way, the
workshop will cover lots of solid techniques discussed in Garrett’s book Inside Acrylics while providing a great
time painting.
