“Painting the Female Form”

August 18-22, 2024
9:30 am to 4:00 pm each day

In this 5-day workshop, American figurative artist Patricia Watwood will lead you in painting a classical female figure.  With an emphasis on understanding the torso and the shaping of form in oil paint, we will explore this most enduring of subjects.

• Learning major landmarks and structures of the torso, hips and shoulder

• Layering paint to create a fine and naturalistic finish in the skin tones

• Using an underpainting layer and glazing to strengthen our sense of form and range of textures

• Adding an element of drapery to complete your composition

During the course of the week, we will work from life with a live female model with a long pose to complete drawing studies and one oil painting.  Class discussions will also look at the female form over art history to learn about how representations of women have changed, and what a contemporary interpretation of this classical subject might convey about our own ideas.

Registration is $750.
Payment can be sent via check to our studio at:
GACA, 4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 322, St. Louis, MO. 63108
or you can use Zelle with our email: gacastudio.info@gmail.com

Workshops take place in the GACA’s studio, located in the Pierce Arrow Building,
4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 322, St. Louis, MO. 63108

REGISTRATION for workshop
For more information on Patricia Watwood, please visit her website at:
http://www.patriciawatwood.com/.

PATRICIA WATWOOD BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Patricia Watwood is a leading figure in the contemporary figurative realist movement, known for her classical paintings, drawings and portraits in oil. Her narrative subjects are primarily women with themes of allegory, myth and archetype. Her portrait of Ida B. Wells was commissioned by the Kennedy School at Harvard. Watwood has exhibited at the Beijing World Art Museum, The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), The Butler Museum, and is in the collections of The St. Louis University Museum of Art, and The New Britain Museum of American Art. She is the First Vice President of the Salmagundi Club of New York. Her book, The Path of Drawing, was published by  Monacelli Studio Press in 2022.

Instagram @patriciawatwood  Facebook @patriciawatwoodstudio

Materials List
• 1  smooth linen canvas (acrylic or oil ground) 16 x 20 to 20x24
• I prefer a high quality stretched linen canvas, like this:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/fredrix-pro-series-belgian-linen-canvas/
Fredrix, Centurion, Dick Blick, Masterpiece are all brands that make a stretched linen canvas.  You want a medium to fine weave.
• Paints: Professional Grade Oil Paints
• White (Gamblin Flake White Replacement)
• Radiant Yellow (Gamblin) or Brilliant Yellow
• Yellow Ochre Deep (Michael Harding)
• Brilliant Pink (Holbein)
• Cad Red Light (Gamblin)
• Alizarin Crimson
• Burnt Sienna (M. Harding or Gamblin)
• Raw Umber
• Viridian Green
• Ultramarine Blue
• Manganese Violet
• Ultramarine Blue
• Ivory Black

Medium: Gamblin Galkyd

Brushes
• 2 larger bristle long Flats size 8-12 (i.e. Rosemary Ultimate Filbert, size 12)
• 2-4 Larger White nylon, like Rosemary Ivory Long Flat or Ivory Long filberts, in medium to med large sizes (1/2” to 7/8” ferule)
• 1 Medium badger fan brush, or other soft mop/fan brush
• 4 gold nylon or sable brushes in filberts (i.e. Rosemary Eclipse longer filbert size 10
• 2-3 white nylon round size 2 (round and pointy)

Other Equipment
• Palette (mine is a 12 x 16 wooden oval)  I recommend the “Salmagundi Traditional palette” (New Wave Art) or “Feather’s Touch” from Jerry’s Artarama
• Palette knife, 2.25” diamond point shape like Holbein 1066S #41
• Medium aluminum palette cup- or empty 2-4 oz. jar
• Brush tank, (important!) like a Silicoil or 8 oz.  mason jar with lid--- MUST have for brush rinsing.
• Painting rags (old t-shirts are the best)
• Paper towels
• Gamsol or similar odorless mineral spirits
• Stand oil, Or Gamblin Galkyd medium
• 2 sticks of vine charcoal, medium hardness
• 2 sticks of conte crayon in Color : “Sanguine XVIII Century”
And/Or Cretacolor Sanguine dry lead and a Cretacolor lead holder
https://www.dickblick.com/products/cretacolor-leads/?fromSearch=%2Fsearch%2F%3Fsearchword%3Dcretacolor%20sanguine%20lead

https://www.dickblick.com/products/cretacolor-ecologic-wooden-lead-holder/

• fine sandpaper one sheet
• 11 x 14 or 14 x 17 sketchbook (or larger), like Strathmore 400 series drawing pad, and a couple binder clips or bulldog clips
• Personal small sketchbook for notes