Plein Air

With a new location chosen each week, student’s will have the chance to paint outdoors amidst Park City’s varied and beautiful natural landscape. We will learn about composition, value and color relationships, layering, and steps to develop a plein air process. Overcoming the challenges of painting in shifting light and changing weather is invigorating and fulfilling! Any preferred painting medium is encouraged. This is an 8 week session.

See material list below:

Material List:

-Plein air easel (French easel, tripod easel)- available to borrow from KAC

-Plein air painting supplies: palette, brushes (variety of round and filberts recommended), palette knife for mixing, medium (linseed oil or medium of choice) and medium container/ palette cup, brush cleaner of choice and container (air-tight brush washer recommended), thick paper towels/rags, bag for collecting dirty rags, gloves

-8 small painting surfaces (7×5-10×8 inches)

-Canvas carrying case/ flat boxes for transporting multiple wet paintings (I recommend flat boxes like these or pizza boxes work great).

-Oil Paint, warm and cool of each color (suggested palette options below)

            -Titanium White

-COOL YELLOW: Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Yellow

            -WARM YELLOW: Indian Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Medium

            -EARTH YELLOW: Yellow Ochre (or Mars Yellow, Mars Orange, Raw Sienna)

            -COOL RED: Quinacridone Rose/ Red or Alizarin Crimson

-WARM RED: Cadmium Red Light

            -EARTH RED: Indian Red or Red Ochre

            -COOL PURPLE: Dioxazine purple

            -WARM PURPLE: Magenta

            -EARTH PURPLE: Caput Mortuum Violet

-COOL BLUE: Cerulean Blue and/or Phthalo Blue

-WARM BLUE: Ultramarine Blue

            -COOL GREEN: Viridian

            -WARM GREEN: Green Gold and/or Chrome Oxide Green

            -EARTH GREEN: Terre Verte

-EARTH BROWN: Burnt sienna, or transparent earth tone (Transparent Earth Orange, Transparent Earth Red, Transparent Earth Yellow, Transparent Brown Oxide, Quinacridone Gold Brown)

-sunscreen, bug spray

-large water bottle

-hat for sun protection

-lots of layers for unpredictable/ changing weather

-pack your lunch & snacks daily

I recommend having a backpack to carry all supplies. I also love using a paint saver palette so I do not have to bring all my tubes out. This is the one I use!