Member Event
GOLDEN OPEN: Expressive Landscape Painting with Mike Townsend!
GOLDEN OPEN: Expressive Landscape Painting with Mike Townsend!
This 1-hour live online event features GOLDEN Material & Application Specialist and Artist Mike Townsend demonstrating how to use OPEN Slow-Dry Acrylics to create an expressive landscape painting. OPEN Acrylics are a unique acrylic paint that provides a relaxed painting experience, allowing artists to easily blend colours and create smooth layers, highlights, and shadows. Mike will work with the OPEN Landscape Set, OPEN Thinner, and OPEN Medium (Matte) to demonstrate subtractive techniques for easily reworking passages, the influence of water, and the benefits of slower dry times on the palette and in painting.
Materials
GOLDEN OPEN Landscape Set: Cadmium Yellow Primrose, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Ultramarine Blue, Manganese Blue Hue, and Sap Green Hue
GOLDEN OPEN Acrylic Mediums 8 oz: Matte
Opus Finest Palette Knives: #110
Opus Mezzo Acrylic Brush Set of 5
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This event is for Opus Members — thank you for being part of the creative community!
Hosted by Opus Art Supplies & our Experience leader
Michael Townsend, a versatile artist with a B.A. in Studio Arts from Mansfield University (1989), has dedicated over 35 years to Golden Artist Colours in New Berlin, NY, evolving from roles in Quality Control, Custom Lab, and Product Development to his current position as a Materials & Applications Specialist. A regular contributor to JustPaint.org and a facilitator of materials sessions for the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Townsend’s artistic practice spans traditional realism to abstract expressionism, with his work exhibited in Brooklyn, Newark, Roanoke, and throughout upstate New York.Instagram: @miketownsendatgolden
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