Saturday, June 14, 2025, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Registration Deadline: May 31

$120 RAA&M Members
$155 Non-Members

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Learn techniques to capture a scene in paint with a good sketch.

A paint-sketch is different from a “painting” in its immediacy, freshness, and speed. We will cover methods of simplification, color choices, paint application, and capturing the feeling of an entire scene with loose precision.

We will work in a Cape Ann alleyway and do some exercises from photos in the studio. The workshop includes a demo, and a final critique with discussion at the end of the day.

Participants may paint in acrylic or oil. Emily will provide the reference photos.

All skill levels are welcome. Space is limited.

Suggested materials:

•Oil or Acrylic Paints: Emily suggests using a warm and cool of each primary color, white, and a very dark brown for mixing black. Use what you have!
• Varied brushes: flats and rounds - use what you have!
• Palette (can be a paper palette, wood, or glass)
• Palette knife(s) - use what you have!
• Rags
• Sketch pad (important for thumbnail sketches and composition planning)
• Pencils: soft, dark 8B, 9B
• Ruler or other straight edge and old credit cards for small straight edges
• Drafting tape (low adhesive)
• Paper and/or paper/pads of "canvas-paper” or other paper designed to take acrylic or oil, or Arches oil paper (We may be cutting it into smaller sizes for fast sketches.)
• Board (for attaching paper for the sketches)
• Stool to sit and sketch with a board on lap
• Easel (optional)
For oil painters:
• Oil painting medium or gel (this can be Gamsol, walnut oil, linseed oil, etc.) and Gamsol for cleanup and thinning.