R&F Pigment Sticks with Melanie Delgado
About This Experience
This virtual demonstration will showcase how R&F Pigment Sticks enable artists to explore both traditional and alternative painting methods using oil. These sticks allow for immediate and fluid application directly onto various surfaces. Artist Melanie Delgado will explain what Pigment Sticks are and provide health and safety guidelines for their use, including proper disposal of oil-soaked rags and paper towels. She will also discuss suitable supports and tools, the differences between transparent and opaque Pigment Sticks, surface building techniques, mono-printing, image transfer, and mark-making.
Materials
R&F Pigment Sticks: Titanium Zinc White, Indian Yellow, Prussian Blue, Ancient Gold, Malachite Green, Cadmium Green Pale, Green Gold, Kings Blue, Alizarin Orange, Turkey Umber Greenish, Mars Orange, Payne’s Grey, Indigo, Turquoise Blue, Provence Blue, Azure Blue, Green Gold Pale, Blending Stick
Oil Paints: Titanium White
Oil Brushes: Flat 2-12, Filbert 2-12, Round 2-12
Opus Finest Palette Knives: #131
Ampersand Gessobord Panels: 9”x12”, 5”x7”
Sinoart Canvas Pads: 9”x12”
Opus Exhibition Pre-Stretched Canvas Surfaces - Deep
Opus Essential Paper Palette Pad 9" x 12"
Vinyl Disposable Gloves
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About Your Host
Born in 1977 in Morristown, New Jersey, abstract painter Melanie Delgado resides in upstate New York. She landed in Woodstock after a full-time residency at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in 2014. Melanie has been instructing at the Woodstock School of Art since 2015. She feels lucky to live in a thriving art community just a few miles from where her favorite art material is made, the R&F Handmade Paint factory in Kingston. She’s been using their pigment sticks for the last 10 years. She is preparing for two exhibitions: a two-person show this spring and a solo one this summer. Melanie can be found with her young daughter or attending art events in the area when she isn't busy teaching or painting in her home studio.
Website: melaniedelgado.org/
Instagram: @melaniedelgado.art
Youtube: Melaniedelgado4752
