View the Demo Flyer : The Art of Colour Creation
February 7, 2012, 6pm
Diana Murphy Room, Morgan Hill Community & Cultural Center
17000 Monterey Road, Morgan Hill, CA
Please come and bring your artist friends.

Oil Paint, Color and the Evolution of Painting Materials
Christine Hanlon, Demo Artist for Winsor & Newton Artist Outreach Program

For artists working in oils, alkyds or acrylics, this seminar will explore the pros and cons of various paints with a focus on the oil paint film.

This highly informative demonstration will help take the mystery out of oil painting, highlighting the high pigment load and excellent handling properties of the 119 Artist Oil Colours.

The sources, history and working characteristics of pigments will be discussed. How do oils, alkyds and acrylic paint films function and compare, and why are there so many different mediums? What do all these mediums do?! What are the rules of oil painting and what does "fat over lean" actually mean?

What’s the difference between a rigid and flexible support in terms of stability, and what’s the best ground to use? Do I need to varnish my paintings, and what is the proper way to do that?

What about solvents? What’s the best brush to use with my paints? What is linseed oil? Can I paint oils over acrylics? ** What are alkyds?

All of these questions and topics, along with your own questions, will be explored. The seminar will include some demonstration time, some hands on, plenty of time for questions, and a very generous free sample packet of professional materials!

**If time permits, the new Artists' Acrylics will be discussed, W&N's newest professional acrylic color which displays virtually no color shift from wet to dry.

Artist Bio

Christine Hanlon is a working artist/teacher from the San Francisco Bay area, who has been part of the Artist Outreach Program for Winsor & Newton since 1998. She has been trained on methods and materials with Winsor & Newton in London, and has conducted technical seminars on color and paint at colleges and universities throughout No. California and the Pacific Northwest.

Her extensive resume includes invitational and juried museum and gallery shows, as well as traveling exhibitions. Her maritime paintings have received multiple awards in the Coos Art Museum's annual maritime exhibitions, including a Best in Show in 2008. Her urban landscape work was featured in the Artist's Magazine Competition Spotlight in September 2009. A cover image and feature article on her maritime paintings is published in the winter 2010-11 issue of Sea History Magazine. She received a BFA in Painting from RISD in 1976 and an MFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in 1997, where she currently teaches at the graduate level.

Read Activitism through Art, the Maritime Paintings of Christine Hanlon
Her paintings, current shows, biography and resume may be viewed online at www.christinehanlon.com.

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