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R&F Pigment Sticks and Color Mixing with Julie Snidle

R&F Pigment Sticks and Color Mixing with Julie Snidle

  • 1.5 hr
  • Online · live on Zoom, join from anywhere
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Join artist Julie Snidle for an introduction to R&F’s Pigment Sticks, oil paints in stick form.  Julie will explain what Pigment Sticks are and demonstrate how Pigment Sticks allow artists to explore traditional and alternative methods of painting with oil by allowing them to draw or paint directly onto a surface with immediacy and fluidity.  Her demonstration will include a discussion about appropriate substrates and tools, and how understanding the difference between transparent and opaque Pigment Sticks can be useful.  Finally, for those of you interested in learning more about mixing oil colors, she will simplify it for you with a color mixing demonstration.

Materials

R&F Pigment Sticks (38ml) - Alizarin Permanent, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Lamp Black, Olive Yellow, Quinacridone Red, Ultramarine Blue

R&F Blending Medium Stick 38ml 

Gamblin Artist’s Oil Color - Titanium White (150ml tube)

Gamblin’s Cold Wax Medium -  (16 oz. can)

Palette Knives - (2 sizes of teardrop, 1 4-inch straight blade) 

Arches Oil Paper Pad 12 x 16” 

Canson Disposable White Palette Paper 

Princeton Catalyst Wedges

Princeton Catalyst Contours

Ampersand Gessobord

Speedball Soft Rubber Brayers

This event is for Opus Members — thank you for being part of the creative community!

Meet your artist

Julie Snidle

Julie Snidle is a full-time artist with classroom teaching experience and a background in corporate training and administration. She was introduced to wax-based media in 2004 and has made it her primary focus since then. Julie is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and an Artist Ambassador for Ampersand Art Panels. She has taught... Read more
Julie Snidle is a full-time artist with classroom teaching experience and a background in corporate training and administration. She was introduced to wax-based media in 2004 and has made it her primary focus since then. Julie is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and an Artist Ambassador for Ampersand Art Panels. She has taught painting workshops throughout the US and parts of Europe. She is represented by Canary Gallery in Birmingham and the Kolman Reeb Gallery in Minneapolis. Her abstract work has received numerous awards and can be found in many private collections and prominent public spaces.

Website: juliesnidle.com
Instagram: @juliesnidle
Facebook: @JulieSnidle
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Free events are short, demo-based sessions led by professional artists—great for inspiration and learning.

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