Painting Animals (Online Workshop) Fall 2025 w/ Yelena Lamm
December 1 to December 15 (Mondays), 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/dY_Wt6Hf7Eg
Workshop Description
In this three-session workshop, you’ll learn to bring animals to life on canvas using traditional alla-prima oil painting techniques. Each class includes a live demonstration, guiding you from an expressive oil sketch to a finished painting. Explore key concepts like proportions, values, temperature shifts, and the power of brushstrokes. Discover how to paint fur with shape and movement, add sparkle to the eyes, sculpt form, capture black (or white) in all its shades, and tell a story through your composition — even down to the tail.
Workshop Outline
Week 1: Oil transfer. Use of shapes and brushstrokes painting fur. Eyes: give it a sparkle.
Week 2: Oil sketch. Proportions as a key to likeness. Use of values and temperature shifts.
Week 3: Thinking of narrative: How to tell a story. More about brushstrokes and secrets to paint application.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 10˝x8˝ and 14˝x11˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas Panels.
Brushes:
Small to medium bristle and soft. I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1 (replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
Ivory Black
Transparent Oxide Red
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Vermilion (Sennelier) or Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin)
Yellow Ochre
Titanium White
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap (I like The Masters Brush Cleaner & Preserver.)
December 1 to December 15 (Mondays), 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/dY_Wt6Hf7Eg
Workshop Description
In this three-session workshop, you’ll learn to bring animals to life on canvas using traditional alla-prima oil painting techniques. Each class includes a live demonstration, guiding you from an expressive oil sketch to a finished painting. Explore key concepts like proportions, values, temperature shifts, and the power of brushstrokes. Discover how to paint fur with shape and movement, add sparkle to the eyes, sculpt form, capture black (or white) in all its shades, and tell a story through your composition — even down to the tail.
Workshop Outline
Week 1: Oil transfer. Use of shapes and brushstrokes painting fur. Eyes: give it a sparkle.
Week 2: Oil sketch. Proportions as a key to likeness. Use of values and temperature shifts.
Week 3: Thinking of narrative: How to tell a story. More about brushstrokes and secrets to paint application.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 10˝x8˝ and 14˝x11˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas Panels.
Brushes:
Small to medium bristle and soft. I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1 (replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
Ivory Black
Transparent Oxide Red
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Vermilion (Sennelier) or Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin)
Yellow Ochre
Titanium White
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap (I like The Masters Brush Cleaner & Preserver.)
December 1 to December 15 (Mondays), 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/dY_Wt6Hf7Eg
Workshop Description
In this three-session workshop, you’ll learn to bring animals to life on canvas using traditional alla-prima oil painting techniques. Each class includes a live demonstration, guiding you from an expressive oil sketch to a finished painting. Explore key concepts like proportions, values, temperature shifts, and the power of brushstrokes. Discover how to paint fur with shape and movement, add sparkle to the eyes, sculpt form, capture black (or white) in all its shades, and tell a story through your composition — even down to the tail.
Workshop Outline
Week 1: Oil transfer. Use of shapes and brushstrokes painting fur. Eyes: give it a sparkle.
Week 2: Oil sketch. Proportions as a key to likeness. Use of values and temperature shifts.
Week 3: Thinking of narrative: How to tell a story. More about brushstrokes and secrets to paint application.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 10˝x8˝ and 14˝x11˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas Panels.
Brushes:
Small to medium bristle and soft. I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1 (replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
Ivory Black
Transparent Oxide Red
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Vermilion (Sennelier) or Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin)
Yellow Ochre
Titanium White
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap (I like The Masters Brush Cleaner & Preserver.)