Painting With Immediacy and Boldness (Online Workshop) Fall 2026 w/ Brian Wendler

October 6 to October 20 (Tuesdays), 10:30 M to 1:30 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.

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DEMO: https://youtu.be/GXcRXQAovYQ

Workshop Description

This unique course will help painters of all levels better understand the workings of color, correct values, and the building of forms in space with color relationships. Working from photographs of landscapes, learn to compose paintings with immediacy and boldness through the use of collage and paint value studies and use of a limited palette. Paintings will be made from these collages with emphasis on form and imaginative composition all toward finding our original voice in the historically expressive medium of easel painting.

Students will receive individual instruction and may use oil or acrylic paint.

Workshop Outline

Week 1

Introduction to the method of creating a collage and paint value study from a photograph. Loosely translating the collage image to canvas with emphasis on Color mixing and imaginative composition using large shapes

Week 2

Continued development of the canvas after looking at examples of how other artists have dealt with the challenges we may be facing.

Week 3

Completion of canvas after viewing and discussing examples from other artists.

Workshop Materials

We will be using a limited palette; red, yellow, blue, and white.

4 colors oil or acrylic for oil-

White (Permalba is fine)

Cadmium Red

Cadmium Lemon

Cobalt Blue

for acrylic-

White (Titanium)

Quinacrodone Red

Any bright yellow

Cobalt Blue

Note: Thalo blue isn’t recommended as it has too strong a tinting property. Cadmium yellow is very strong also, and can dominate a palette. Cadmium Lemon works well.

5”x7” Card Museum Board works well, and may be toned with acrylic.

Collage Materials Paper strips from magazine pages focusing on color and light, medium, and dark values

Glue Stick Any basic glue stick will do (Elmer’s, etc.)

Brushes Whatever you have, or choose several; filberts, flats, or brights #’s 2,4,6,10

Palette Knife Medium sized for mixing color

Palette for oil - wood, glass or paper

for acrylic- metal enamel pan

Spray water bottle

Thinner for oil - sealed jar for thinner

for acrylic- plastic jar for water

Canvas or Panel under 28 inches

Photograph of a landscape