The Chestnut Group

Paint Your Heart Out: Design for Impact! with Kay Keyes Farrar
2019-06-10 09:30 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Leiper’s Creek Gallery, 4144 Old Hillsboro Road, Franklin, TN, 37064
Monday June 10, 2019
Design for Impact!
Kay Keyes Farrar

Description: Organize shape, value, directional angles and color to create paintings with impact. Add the fresh brushwork of plein air to capture light, atmosphere and excitement of the outdoor experience so your paintings capture the mood of the day. Start by gathering information in sketches in order to experiment with compositions and gather ideas. What inspired you to paint a particular scene? Concentrating on this one idea will help you through the painting process. Learn to break down the landscape into: directional line, positive and negative shape, value relationships, color harmonies, color intensity and edge quality. Understanding each aspect of the landscape painting in this order helps build confident design to convey your idea. Kay will offer demos in both compositional sketches and oil, and lots of individual encouragement at the easel. Lunch will be a time to gather to share our ideas and paintings.
Time: 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Member Fee: $65 Non-member Fee: $85
To Register, go to: Design for Impact
Location: Meet at Leiper’s Creek Gallery, 4144 Old Hillsboro Rd. 37064
Student Levels for this workshop: Beginning and Intermediate
Student Limit: 12
Supply list: Please bring what supplies you are comfortable with and confident using.
Sketch book for design compositions value pencils or gray markers suggested
Plein Air gear set up, paper towel,
trash bags ,sunscreen,
water
brush washer with Gamsol, Odorless mineral spirits suggested No paper palettes please.
Titanium White,
Cad Yellow Light, Cad Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Alizarin Crimson, Cad Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Violet
Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber
Variety of Brushes – I like Rosemary Brushes (daggers and angle brushes, filbert and rounds) and Master’s Touch

Paint Your Heart Out: Push Your Plein Air to the Limit! with Pam Padgett
2019-04-15 09:30 - 16:00
Monday, April 15th, 2019
Pam Padgett
Push Your Plein Air to the Limit!

Description: For painters looking to push thru to the next level, Pam will ask participants to send 2-3 paintings images to her 2 weeks before class starts that represent their skill level and will work to help the individuals improve and elevate their paintings. Demo to start. Bring a lunch!
Time: 9:30 am-4 pm
Member Fee: $65 Non-member Fee: $85
To Register, go to: Push Your Plein Air to the Limit
Location: Leiper’s Fork area – Meet at Leiper’s Creek Gallery, 4144 Old Hillsboro Rd., Franklin, TN 37064
Student Levels for this workshop: Intermediate
Student Limit: 12
Supply list:
Alizarin crimson
Cadmium red light
Cadmium yellow light
Cadmium yellow medium
French ultramarine blue
Cerulean blue
Viridian
Burnt Umber
Titanium white
Canvases:
8-10 Painting canvas panels
Minimum 8×10
up to 12×16
Brushes:
Natural fiber Filberts and/or flats
Sizes 2,4,6,8
Palette knife or 2
Paint box, palette and easel
Gamsol Odorless mineral spirits in a container jar etc.
Paper towels,
razor scraper (to clean palette),
trash bags
pencil
Wine and Leiper’s Creek Gallery tour after the workshop.

Paint Your Heart Out Workshop - "Luminous Skys"
2018-05-09 09:30 - 16:30
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Jo Ridge Kelley
Luminous Skies

Plein air workshop focusing on capturing luminosity in your skies. Mixing luscious grays, creating great cloud formation, design, and atmosphere, including tips for capturing vibrant light, will be demonstrated. Use of palette knife and large brushes and even your fingers to express yourself will be the highlight of this exciting workshop on skies. The palette knife and brushes will be demonstrated for a loose, more expressive capture as well as a more traditional approach to painting clouds.
Student Levels for this workshop: All Levels Welcome
Supply List:

Oil colors- 2 each of primaries – warm and cool plus white
On my palette: ( mostly Gamblin brand)
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue Or Windsor Blue-green shade
Cad red medium
Quinacridone red
Cad lemon
Cad yellow medium
Titanium white

Optional:

Viridian
Cobalt Blue light (Rembrandt)
Burnt sienna
Cad orange
Perm Alizarin Crimson
Transparent Oxide Red (Rembrandt)
Transparent Orange
Odorless mineral spirits/brush washer
Viva paper towels
Small trowel type palette knife
Flat hog bristle brushes #4 #8 #12 (Utrecht brand series 209 is good affordable brush)
Small round sable type brush
Rigger or script brush
Pencil or old ballpoint pen
Canvas or canvas panels – 2, approx. 12×16 – 20×20 or 12×24 (I use Raymar linen panels for travel and gallery wrap canvas for local outdoor work) Your choice!
Wet panel carrier (or a way to transport wet canvas)
Plein air type easel- I use Open box M for small panels and my French easel for larger canvas- even up to very wide, elongated Canvases.
Palette (if applicable)
Tote or backpack
Sketchbook, graphite or charcoal

Other:

Water bottle
Sunscreen
Insect repellent
Umbrella
Portable Stool/chair
Hand wipes
Lunch and snacks!
