Oil Painting for Beginners with Todd Bonita 
Saturday, October 24th, 9am-3pm

Newburyport Art 
65 Water St
Newburyport, MA 01950

This one day intensive will introduce you to the classical approach to oils using a monochromatic underpainting called a grisaille. This time-tested technique pre-dates the Renaissance and has been modified over 600 years and has found its practice in the hands of artists like, Vermeer and Rembrandt, amongst others. We will complete a single painting using an umber and white underpainting, slowing down to completely dissect and comprehend light on form through drawing, design and value sensitivity. This will be followed by thin, transparent glazes of color to achieve a luminous affect.  Our goal will be to simplify the painting process and create a work with mood, atmosphere and poetic depth.  This is packed with valuable information that has been passed down through centuries by the great masters.

Materials to bring:

Portable Easel

Palette
wood palette.

Paint
Titanium White)
* Cad Yellow
* Yellow ochre
* Alizeran Crimson
* Cadmium Red
* Ultramarine Blue
* Cerulean Blue
* Sap Green
* Raw Umber
* Ivory black (*Optional)

Painting surface
8x10 canvas or canvas board

Brushes
Assortment of brushes. Brushes are very personal to the painter. What works for one does not necessarily work for the other. I personally use high hair, bristle brush brushes. About the width of my thumb. I like a small round synthetic for detail also. I paint with 3 to 5 brushes.

Other
* Pallet knife
* liquin (medium)
* Brush cleaner ( I use Gamsol it’s a (Turpentine substitute) * with container or medium glass jar
* paper towels
* Viewcatcher
* Artist paint box or back pack for supplies

 

Cost:

• NAA Members: $75
• Non-members: $95
• 10% discount offered to seniors (ages 65+)

Todd Bonita Bio

After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, I continued study of classical painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, until returning home in 2004, where I currently live and maintain an oil painting studio in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I love painting plein air equally as much as crafting more involved compositions in my studio. Above all, I love the process and simple joy of being with my tools and creating. My work is represented by ten art galleries around the US, Canada and UK., exhibited in four Art museums and is in hundreds of corporate and private collections world wide, including 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush. I currently own the Todd Bonita Art Gallery in both Ogunquit, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as the Ogunquit Art Colony School, where I teach painting classes and International art workshops year round.

This workshop is eligibile for the Kevin Quinan Memorial Scholarship for emerging oil painters age 60 and older. Read more below and please indicate if you are interested in being considered for the scholarship.

The Kevin Quinan Memorial Scholarship is intended to benefit an adult emerging oil painter in their effort to build confidence and aptitude as a painter, by removing the initial financial roadblocks that can discourage the embrace of a new venture. The scholarship is established to honor the memory of Kevin Quinan, who began painting at age 70 and continued until his death at age 78. Painting in his later years gave him great pleasure and a sense of accomplishment, as he learned the daunting task of creating works of art from a blank canvas. He was courageous in doing so, and found an excellent teacher with whom he studied painting continuously. It was his wish that others would be supported in their early stages as he was, and that classes at the Newburyport Art Association would enable emerging artists to embrace painting as he did, making it a cornerstone of his later life.

The Scholarship will fund the cost of tuition and materials at a Newburyport Art Association oil painting class, for an oil painter aged sixty and above, in their first two years of study. The Scholarship will be awarded to one or more students per class, based on the application. The applications will be reviewed by Kevin’s widow and his daughter, with input from the Newburyport Art Association staff.

This class is capped at 14 people. It has a minimum of 6 to run.

By completing this registration form, you agree to the following cancellation and refund schedule:

• Within 2 days of the registered session: 0% refund
• Between 2 days and 2 weeks: 50% refund
• More than 2 weeks: 100% refund

The NAA reserves the right to cancel this class if necessary. In the event that the NAA cancels the class, all registrants will be refunded in full.