Still Life in a Very Limited Palette - Oils or Acrylics
Maria Yadegar is a plein air landscape artist based in Hampshire. Working in oils, quickly and intuitively to capture an impression of the landscape and how it feels in the moment. Her style is colourful with loose and fresh brush work to evoke the landscape around her.
Whilst you can usually find her out in the landscape, she also enjoys painting still life studies in her studio.
Maria exhibits her work both locally and is regularly selected for group exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London.
In 2024 her still life painting ‘Rainbow Tulips in the Studio’ was selected for the RA Summer Exhibition.
Information about the day
Working in oils or acrylics you will be creating a still life painting using a very limited palette with the three primary colours plus white.
Working in this way will allow you to concentrate on colour mixing. Colour mixing is one of the foundations of a good painting and by using a limited palette you will have a greater understanding of colour and what you can achieve.
We will look a little at the basics of colour theory and will then do an exercise in colour mixing.
We will then work on a still life painting based on a couple of still life set ups that I will provide for us to work from.
Maria will be demonstrating in oil paint, but if your preferred medium is acrylics you are welcome to use these as the colour theory for both is the same.
Materials to bring
Oil or Acrylic paint in the following colours:
- Ultramarine or Cobalt Blue
- Cadmium Red
- Cadmium Yellow Light (or equivalent)
- White
A variety of your favourite brushes
A low odour solvent (Zest It or Sansodor) plus a brush washer pot or lidded jam jar
Mixing Palette
Old Cloth or kitchen roll for cleaning brushes
Palette knife
Canvas board, primed mdf board or stretched canvas roughly 8 x 10” or 10 x 12”
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