Let there be Light: Oil Painting
Registration
Amy Funk
Wednesdays, February 7 – March 27, 2024
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Delve into the darkness and find the light on your canvas in this oil painting class for all levels of learning. Interpreting photos onto canvas we will spend our time focussing on paint application. Under loving direction we will create one practice piece and one finished work each, immersing ourselves in the pure luxury of paint. We will use our photos as reference as we plunge into their darkness and extrude their light, working each section of our canvas intimately until our strokes satisfy us with confidence.
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 an inch for the large! Think painting your fingernails. And we want a variety of tips ~ pointy, flat, angled, the works 😉
- 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
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.