Natural Pigments Painting Workshop at ARTiculations
Natural Pigments and ARTiculations in Toronto present: Natural Pigments Painting Best Practices Three-Day Workshop!
This workshop has been attended by Nitram's own, Jerzy and Patricia! (see right corner)
Natural Pigments spent years developing a technical workshop to teach skills that are not taught in art school and universities—a thorough understanding of artist’s materials and tools, what they are designed to do, when to chose them and how to provide considerable longevity to your finished work. This three-day workshop covers the most important aspects of painting that have proven to be the best practices over the centuries.
Three-Day Workshop
For over a hundred years, most causes of paint failures have been studied: humidity, temperature and paint embrittlement. The symptoms were obvious—cracking, delaminating and paint loss—but the causes were not. Conservation workers gradually formed concepts as to the causes of cracking and paint loss of old paintings. Concurrently, the coatings industry studied failures in all types of paint films. Artists developed their own ideas, but remained largely unaware of findings from both the conservation community and the coatings industry.
Natural Pigments spent years developing a technical workshop to teach skills that are not taught in art school and universities—a thorough understanding of artist’s materials and tools, what they are designed to do, when to chose them and how to provide considerable longevity to your finished work. This two-day workshop covers the most important aspects of painting that have proven to be the best practices over the centuries.
The information-packed workshop includes all aspects of constructing a painting from the support and ground to the final layers. Practical procedures will be clearly explained and demonstrated on how to build your oil paintings based on conservation research during the past century. This workshop is designed for painters of all mediums, but special emphasis is given to oil painting.
Workshop Description The workshop begins with a review of the leading causes of cracking and paint loss in paintings. In light of the research, we review different types of painting supports to help you choose the best one for your painting technique. We review the most suitable grounds for each type of popular support and painting and review factors influencing the embrittlement of the paint film and what artists can do to prolong its life. Throughout the workshop we provide recommendations involving different supports, grounds and painting techniques that will help you make technically-sound paintings.
When: Saturday September 19th 2015 to Monday September 21st 2015.
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm.
Where: 2928 Dundas St West Toronto, ON M6P 1Y8
For more information about registration for this workshop, please call ARTiculations.
You can also visit: http://www.naturalpigments.com/painting-best-practices-workshop-3-day.html http://articulations.ca/workshops/natural-pigments-painting-best-practices-three-day-workshop/