At Franklin Carmichael, I offer workshops and classes. Focus will be technique and experimenting with acrylics, oils and sculpture.
WINTER 2020
NEW CLASS
Painting With Intent
Instructor: Jacqueline Crawley
Time: Mondays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Studio: June Thompson Studio
Fee: $145
Description
There will be three challenges for the 8 weeks. Each challenge is set up to stretch your understanding of painting in some way. There will be demonstrations, discussions as well as individual help and guidance. Included with the class are understanding mediums, colour, tools and technique. This course is designed to improve your art as well as encourage a unique personal experience and journey. Bring inspirational images or use what is supplied.
There will be three challenges for the 8 weeks. Each challenge is set up to stretch your understanding of painting in some way. There will be demonstrations, discussions as well as individual help and guidance. Included with the class are understanding mediums, colour, tools and technique. This course is designed to improve your art as well as encourage a unique personal experience and journey. Bring inspirational images or use what is supplied.
Challenges - Bring to class enough images to address the challenges and we can work together to go forward. Come to class to paint.
Whites & Winter
The experiment is seeing white in its many shades while limiting pure white as much as possible. The questions we can ask are: What is white in winter? How is it affecting me and the viewer? How can it instigate a conversation? Think about white as an iconic concept of purity and think about what that means to you.
Saturated Colours
Choose a subject (s) that uses intense colour but still looks at values. The rich display of colour can still be controlled. How will we do this? We will look at Volume, Value and Purity.
Limited Palette
Using only a few colours, creating all the colour you need to complete two companion paintings. Colour can be overwhelming. We don’t always need to be bold or we need colour to harmonize. Perhaps your focus is more on the shapes and line work. It isn’t a colour focused piece or maybe we are controlling the colour through limitations.
Whites & Winter
The experiment is seeing white in its many shades while limiting pure white as much as possible. The questions we can ask are: What is white in winter? How is it affecting me and the viewer? How can it instigate a conversation? Think about white as an iconic concept of purity and think about what that means to you.
Saturated Colours
Choose a subject (s) that uses intense colour but still looks at values. The rich display of colour can still be controlled. How will we do this? We will look at Volume, Value and Purity.
Limited Palette
Using only a few colours, creating all the colour you need to complete two companion paintings. Colour can be overwhelming. We don’t always need to be bold or we need colour to harmonize. Perhaps your focus is more on the shapes and line work. It isn’t a colour focused piece or maybe we are controlling the colour through limitations.
Materials
Paint – oil or acrylic – profession grade if you can
Brushes
Notes on Brush purchases – make sure they have body [to pick up the paint] and hold their shape while you paint
Painting Knives – often referred to as Palette Knives
Purchase at least three knives of good quality. They should be metal. They should have a bent handle to keep your hand out of the paint. They should be big enough to manipulate the paint.
1) Pie shaped with a pointed end to apply and mix paint – most important knife
2) Flat end to scoop paint/medium out of jars
3) Long knife shape to spread a large amount of paint
Surface
Any you like – canvas on stretchers, canvas boards, canvas paper pads, watercolour paper, wood or masonite surface,
Size: large preferred min 20x16 and up but whatever you are comfortable with.
MISC
Paint – oil or acrylic – profession grade if you can
- Primaries – Primary Yellow, Magenta, Cyan
- Earth colours – Yellow Ocher &/or Raw Sienna, Raw Umber
- Black & White – opaque: Titanium and Carbon/Ivory/Mars or transparent: Zinc and Bone Black
- Other colours you like.
- Gels – heavy based mediums available in oil [sometimes called Impasto for each type of oils] or acrylic. In some cases Gels will come in Matt or Gloss [I personally buy both and creat a in the middle medium as well as purchase Super Heavy Body Acrylic Gels for texture]
- Polymers – are fluid body acrylic to thin paint or make it more transparent.
Brushes
- 3 sizes of each type – Round/Flat/Bright/Filbert
Notes on Brush purchases – make sure they have body [to pick up the paint] and hold their shape while you paint
- Nylon Brushes – offer crispness
- Bristle Brushes – offer soft and gentle strokes
- Hair Brushes – offer a combination of both but are also fragile.
Painting Knives – often referred to as Palette Knives
Purchase at least three knives of good quality. They should be metal. They should have a bent handle to keep your hand out of the paint. They should be big enough to manipulate the paint.
1) Pie shaped with a pointed end to apply and mix paint – most important knife
2) Flat end to scoop paint/medium out of jars
3) Long knife shape to spread a large amount of paint
Surface
Any you like – canvas on stretchers, canvas boards, canvas paper pads, watercolour paper, wood or masonite surface,
Size: large preferred min 20x16 and up but whatever you are comfortable with.
MISC
- Towel of old hoody remnant [without sleeves or hood] – to lay on table to absorb all the mess you create and to help clean your brushes and knives. Min 2’x2’ square. Sleeves can be used as ragas or scrubbers.
- Pencil, sketch pad and kneaded eraser – for thumbnails and design ideas.
- Spray bottle **for acrylics – use an old toner bottle or the small sprayers from the dollar store.
- Masking tape
- String 2ft min for measuring and line work
- Chalk or Conte in white, [black and brown for light areas] for corrections and preliminary sketching on surface
- Inspirational Images – all copyright free
Fall 2019 - New Drawing class to be offered
Refreshing Drawing Skills
Sept 9th start- for 8 weeks
7 - 9:30 = 2 1/2 hrs
Development of skills and drawing techniques to improve other art pursuits or for drawing alone.
Emphasis on perspective: dividing class between interior and exterior issues.
Emphasis on perspective: dividing class between interior and exterior issues.
- Exploring still life and objects in perspective
- Buildings in perspective – thinking about composition and values, including figures and floral.
Overview - class went extremely well. Great efforts and results
Fall 2018 Portrait Workshop
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Past workshops
pAINT-NIGHT
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Greeting Card Workshop |
Chiaroscuro: Charcoal and Chalk
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Sculpture
Hare
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Small Wire Bird Workshop
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Palette Knife workshops
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Franklin Carmichael - Studios
Summer at the school
The Garden Gallery in winter.
Along with the original house, there is a cottage in the back of the property. It is often used for model studies or workshops.
Interior of the Garden Gallery
Work Area - tables, easels, natural + fluorescent lighting and a kitchenette
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2 Studios at FCAG are recently renovated
This photo was taken just after renovations were complete. This is the downstairs studio. The upstairs studio is similar.
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Studio in the HOUSE
This is the only studio on the 2nd floor that has not been renovated. It has original wood floors, is south facing with a sun-room and a fireplace. It smells like a summer cottage.
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