December 2021 – Holiday Social Hour & Art Demo with Polly La Porte
Folsom Arts Association
Holiday Social Hour & Artist Demonstration
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Members and guests who wish to gather and visit in the holiday spirit are invited to come early to our December demo at Gallery 48 Natoma. Beginning at 5 p.m., we will have a holiday social hour, with light refreshments and libations.
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Thursday, December 9, 2021
Holiday Social Hour at 5 p.m.
Art Demo with Polly La Porte at 6 p.m.
Gallery at 48 Natoma in Folsom
Join us for December’s art demo with Polly La Porte. Polly will be demonstrating how to set up a simple still life using a single light source. The demo will be a step by step approach to an alla prima oil painting. She’ll talk about:
- How to assess a composition and why it’s important.
- Color mixing using a limited pallette ( red, yellow, blue plus white).
- How to choose which primary colors for your subject.
- Size and shape of brushes for looser painting.
- Toned background and how it helps your process.
- How to achieve dimension by identifying the different kinds of shadows, form, cast, and occlusion.
- Value vs color.
- Working in the middle values till the last stages of painting.
- Paint consistency and how to go from thin to thick paint and why that is important with oil painting.
The demo will be a still life of a single piece of fruit like an avocado cut in half, a whole apple, or a cantaloupe cut up. The fruit will be sitting on a simple color plain.
Visit PollyDailyPainting.com to learn more about Polly La Porte.
See you on Thursday, December 9
Holiday Social Hour at 5 p.m.
Art Demo with Polly Le Porte at 6 p.m.
Gallery at 48 Natoma in Folsom