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| 2010 Crash Courses are scheduled for Saturdays This one day seminar on basic painting techniques using a variety of Kremer's products will focus on: 1. Preparing and stretching raw linen and linen on panels a. The correct use of rabbit skin glue. b. Making your own gesso. c. Sealing the ground. 2. The difference between modern synthetic pigments (e.g. cobalt blue, French Ultramarine, cadmium red etc.) and natural and mineral pigments (e.g. azurite, lapis lazuli, cinnabar etc.). 3. Introduction to natural and mineral pigments. 4. Working with the regular synthetic pigments in a variety of natural binding mediums including the distempers, egg tempera, the oils and natural resins. This includes how to make your own oil paint and put it in a tube. 5. Binding Mediums: a. Water based natural binding mediums such as hide glue, casein and egg tempera. b. Oils such as cold pressed, polymerized and co-polymerized oils. c. The correct use of the balsams such as Venetian and Strasbourg turpentines and Canada Balsam. d. How to prepare a diluent. 6. The question of varnishes from Dammar to Amber. 7. Last, but not least - your questions. |
| Course details: Usually Saturdays from 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the artist's studio in the D.U.M.B.O. area of Brooklyn. Other days can be arranged according to demand. The cost per participant will be $220,- For further details contact Michael Price directly at: artmprice@gmail.com or evenings at 1-212-694-8884. |
| Next one day courses: Date not fixed: in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY |
