Paintings Flooded With Light and Life (Online Workshop) Spring 2025 w/ Manon Sander

April 9 to April 23 (Wednesdays), 1:00 PM to 4:00 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/av1tFA-T-7s

Workshop Description

Learn Manon’s colorist technique to make a luminous, light-filled painting, and replace random decision making with intentional choices in regards to the pillars of creating a painting. Manon will demonstrate a variety of subject matter using a split-primary palette and an impressionistic alla prima approach step-by-step to give you the confidence to use your new skills on your own.

Manon will break down design, values, effective color mixing and how to avoid mud or chalkiness, interesting mark making, and the importance of edges. This workshop is appropriate for oils, acrylics, and gouache.

Workshop Outline

Week 1

- Elements of good composition

- How to decide what would make a good painting

- How to start out a painting with a solid foundation

- Demo

Week 2

- Deep dive into the properties of color

- Color mixing with intention

- How to avoid chalkiness and muddiness

- Demo

Week 3

- Tools to lead the viewer’s eye through the painting

- Painterly brushwork

- Use of edges

- How to evaluate your own work and find solutions for problem areas in your own

paintings (no more “I know something is wrong, but I can’t put my finger on it”!)

- Demo

Workshop Materials List

Colors:

 Titanium White

 Lemon Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Light

 Cadmium Yellow Medium

 Indian Yellow

 Cadmium Orange or Permanent Orange (Michael Harding)

 Raw Sienna , Yellow Ochre or Golden Ochre

 Cadmium Red Light or Naphtol Red

 Quinacridone Rose or Permanent Alizarin Crimson

 Phthalo Blue or Cerulean

 Ultramarine Blue (Michael Harding preferred)

 Viridian or Phthalo Green

 Transparent Red Oxide or Transparent Earth Red

In general, as long as you have a warm and a cool version of yellow, blue, and red you should be good to go. The colors printed boldly are what’s on my palette, but the regular printed ones can be used alternatively if you already have them. In general, artist grade paints are to be preferred over student grade.

Medium:

 Gamsol (for oil painters)

 Gamblin NeoMegilp

Brushes:

As long as you have a variety of long flats and filberts you’ll be good.

Please no short stubby brushes or old stiff paint-encrusted brushes.

Just for your information, here’s what I use:

Long flats natural bristle brushes such as hog hair or Rosemary’s long-handled long flats, “Ivory” or “Shiraz” synthetic bristle

 Size 1 round.

 Size 2,4, 6, 8, 10 long-bristled flats or filberts.

 ½” diamond shaped palette knife.

Canvas:

Small canvases, like 6x8”, 8x10”, 9x12, 11.x 14” depending on your speed and comfort level. Squares in similar sizes will work well, too

Miscellaneous

 Paper towels (blue shop towels from Home Depot are

great)

 Container for mineral spirits

 Trash bag

 Palette.

 Small sketch book and pencil

 Value markers in light, medium, and dark values if you have them.