Let There Be Light: Oil Painting
Registration
Amy Funk
Mondays, November 4 – December 9, 2024
1:00pm – 4:00pm
The class will begin with an introduction by your instructor, Amy Funk, and go on to choose between 2 still life images provided. The first class will be spent projecting your image onto your provided 11” x 14” primed canvas as well as learning and practicing different paint stroke techniques and colour mixing.
You will spend the remaining 5 weeks working on your pieces. We will catapult into the paint application process — what the class is about! Amy will work closely with each student “one-on-one” at each individuals level, and will show examples of artists who use the light techniques that each of you are trying to achieve.
This is a high success class, no matter your level. This tried and true manner of painting, paired with Funk’s attentive instruction has enabled students to attain a painting style that can be used moving forward for any taste.
Students should bring:
- Oil paint: you will need a minimum of one black, one white, 1 red, 2 yellow (one hopefully of the ochre variety), 2 blue, 2 green, 3 varying browns, minimum 12ml tubes)
- Brushes in varying SMALL sizes of your choice,( I use acrylic brushes for oil myself). These brushes need to be little, like, quite little. We have no need for brushes any wider than half an inch for the large! Think painting your fingernails. And we want a variety of tips ~ pointy, flat, angled, the works, but MUST have at least one short square tip! Also – soft is the name of the game. We do not want harsh-haired brushes – they are too scratchy for what we are trying to achieve.
- A 500ml mason jar for solvent ~ with lid
- Optional: an iPad to view the photo you are painting from. There will also be printouts available, but the iPad is backlit and some may prefer that.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Amy Funk
Amy Funk was born in BC and started painting as a very young child. Funk studied fine art post high school in Florence, Italy and London, England before completing her Fine Arts undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2008. Funk continued her practice in Manhattan, NYC and Berlin, Germany before switching gears and moving back to her hometown of Vancouver to attend the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and graduate with both honorable mention and a scholarship in 2010. Working in the culinary world for the past thirteen years both in Ontario and Nova Scotia has allowed Funk to bring her visual aesthetic and thematic interests together. As the daughter of a professional photographer and chef, ingredients as much as art have surrounded her senses from childhood and the evidence of her love for both art forms is manifest in her work. Funk now resides in Lunenburg, NS, and is the proud owner and chef of Shore Lunch Food Truck.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.