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Cold Wax Landscape Workshop with Linda Benton McCloskey


  • Hershey Area Art Association PO Box 654 Hershey, PA 17033-654 USA (map)

Tuesday, February 4 - Wednesday, February 5

9:30am - 3:30pm (w/ half hour lunch break)

$200 Member…$215 Non-member

Location: Hershey History Center, 40 Northeast Dr., Hershey, PA 17033

Want to make beautiful, textured and glowing abstracted landscapes? Dive into the deep end of color and wild marks, using multiple layers of oil paint mixed with cold wax. Cold wax is a versatile medium that creates rich luminosity, interesting surfaces, and speeds up drying time. It is applied with squeegees, putty, and palette knives, and it feels like painting with whipped butter. Our emphasis will be on painting vibrant and colorful abstracted landscapes using our imaginations (and reference photos if desired). We will experiment with laying down swaths of paint, building texture, scraping away, and then doing it all again. We will work intuitively and energetically on multiple pieces, exploring texture, layers, composition and design, and the use of color. The layers dry quickly, and clean-up is done with mineral or baby oil. You will complete several pieces and have starts for future paintings.

Cold wax Materials list

SUPPORTS - You will need a minimum of 5 for the 2 days. Can be wooden panels (cradled or uncradled). MUST BE PRIMED WITH GESSO PRIOR TO CLASS if not already primed.  I use colored gesso. Be sure to TAPE your edges.  I will be using between 12x12 to 20x20.

You can also use ARCHES OIL PAPER. Make sure it is OIL paper.  If using regular watercolor paper or multi-media paper - IT MUST BE GESSO’d PRIOR TO CLASS.

Another support is MULTIMEDIA ARTBOARD. Neither the Multimedia Artboard or the Arches oil paper doesn’t need to be gesso’d. I will also have both for sale. Both come in a variety of sizes.

OIL PAINT - BRING THE COLORS YOU ENJOY. Be sure to have both the warm and cool in the primaries- such as Quin Magenta or Alizarin Crimson / Cad Red Light. - Lemon Yellow / Hansa yellow or Indian yellow - Thalo Blue / Ultramarine Blue. PLUS LOTS of black and white. I use ivory black and titanium white.  You will use lots of white so be sure to have a large tube.  Bring any other colors you like such as purple or green.  I do mix most of my greens.  You can use water soluble oil.  No acrylic  

Roll Paper Towels

Gamblin odorless solvent - Gamsol

Roll Wax Paper

Roll Saran Wrap or equivalent 

Pad of newsprint - or a stack of newspapers 

Reynolds Freezer Paper.  This will be used as palette paper.  Can be found in grocery stores

1 pint of cold wax - Dorlands or Gamblin

Palette knife - I will have for sale what I use.  I sell all items at my cost

Silicone Bowl scraper (Amazon - Zoie and Chole) I will have for sale

Soft Brayer - I will have for sale at my cost

Baby oil

Old brushes

Optional materials….I will have some for your use. No need to purchase if you don’t have - Stencils / stamps / marking tools / collage materials / oil sticks

www.LindaBentonMcCloskey.com

Earlier Event: January 9
Water Media with Marie Gamon