Painting a realistic still life with the ZORN limited palette | 2-DAY WORKSHOP
DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, August 11th 9am-4pm
Wednesday, August 12th 9am-4pm
COST: $180 LGAA Members | $195 Non-Members
CONTACT: Brenda Overdier | Phone/Text: 850-776-9391
Come watch Judi give a demonstration during our August meeting on Monday, August 10th in the Shanley House Studio! Meeting begins at 6pm. 224A N Travis Street across from the Hood County Library.
View more of hER work at judisimonartist.com
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Zorn Palette | Grapes and Strawberries
SOURCE PHOTO
COMPLETED PAINTING
Learn to paint a complete still life in oils with only 3 colors plus black and white. Enjoy a 3 day workshop that expands your oil painting knowledge on color and color layering through the limited palette of Anders Zorn, well known international artist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
This limited palette explores the subtleties in color values and highlights that can be achieved with only a few colors. After working with this palette, the artist can feel more confident in expanding to a wider color palette in future paintings.
No medium (only odorless mineral spirits) is used, all colors are opaque and wet-on-wet will be part of the layering process.
SUPPLY LIST:
OIL PAINTS: Any brand but highly recommend Winsor Newton Griffin Alkyd oil paint You can order through BLICK Art Supplies or JERRY’S ARTARAMA (Order small tubes online). For this particular painting, these faster drying paints will be better and best for
this layering technique.
COLORS:
Yellow Ocher
Cadmium Medium Red (Hue) (doesn’t come in alkyd version)
Cobalt Blue
Lamp Black
Titanium White (this one especially in the alkyd paint)
BRUSHES: hair brushes or soft synthetic brushes not the white hogs hair brushes
- Filberts: sizes 1/4”, 1/8”
- Flat edge or square shaders sizes: 3/4” (or 1” ), 5/8”, 3/8”, 1/4”
- Small detail brushes, size 1 or 2
- Small mop brush, flat ferrel 1/4” (or any old fuzzy brushes almost ready to be thrown away)
ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES:
- 8×10 gesso board, gesso cradled board or smooth canvas board
- Not Linen covered board)
- Should be able to get this at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, but may have to look
- MUST BE GESSOED and smooth not textured like a linen covered board.
- Blue paper towel roll
- Odor less mineral spirts (a closed Jar or two)
- Red or black “SHARPIE” ultrafine marker pen
- Graphite paper
- Easel or something to prop your board on and something to hold your study
- Brush cleaner or soap
ABOUT THE ARTIST
And we are proud to present yet another great award winning artist to teach our August workshop, Judi Simon! Judi exhibited in our Fall Art Show in 2024 and won an award for excellence for her painting, “Tiffany’s Gifts.” She is a professional graphic designer, medical illustrator as well as a fine artist. Her career spans over 40 years in the commercial art, health education, medical illustration and consumer products fields.
As a fine artist she is a representational artist who specializes in oil and watercolor painting with a wide range of still life and portrait subjects.. She has exhibited throughout Central Texas and has taught painting in Texas and Arizona. She is a member of the Professional Artists of Central Texas (PACT), International Porcelain Artists and Teachers (IPAT), and a former member of Oil Painters of America (OPA). She has been in numerous juried shows and has won several distinguished awards for her unique painting style. She has had 2 solo shows, one in Abilene and one in Temple, Texas, along with a two person show at the Breckenridge Fine Arts Center in Breckenridge, Texas. She was also selected as a participating artist in the Texas Art Connection art book of current Texas artists available through Amazon.
Judi says of her work, “As a career medical illustrator, I have always been a technical, representational artist yet over the years, have developed eclectic tastes in painting subjects and how we traditionally view them. I am drawn to detail and how light and shadow visually affects objects and color within a still life, portrait or landscape, no matter what angle. I try to create depth and excitement in a painting by balancing the lights and darks within the colors and the over- all composition. My goal is to draw the viewer into a painting and to spend time enjoying that painting.”