Beautiful Brush Strokes & Adventurous Texture

I am able to offer this workshop at a fraction of the normal price thanks to support from the Wichita Plein Air Enthusiasts and the Andover Public Library!

Advanced registration required. To register by check, contact Jessie by email, text, or call.
(605) 695-5815

 

 

Hosted by Andover Library and Wichita Plein Air Enthusiasts

Workshop Description

Learn techniques for making beautiful and captivating brush marks and paint textures!

Explore how to hold and move your brush to make loose, painterly marks.

Jessie doesn’t follow the “put it down and leave it” rule. Instead, she’ll show you a process of building up to the mark you want.

Practice focusing your eyes and attention in a way that lets you see (and paint!) edge variety.

Jessie will demonstrate how to use a straightforward technique to see those edges and beautifully describe them.

 

Medium

The workshop will be best for oil or acrylic painters. For other mediums, please contact me.

Demos will be in oil (water mixable).

 

Workshop Schedule
Day 1
Morning demo showing how to use a thin wash to map in a composition, and then thick juicy brush marks
to finish a painting. I’ll demo painting from a photo of a bird in nature.

Topics will include making useful value studies, how to use a value card, and how to hold and move a brush in a variety of ways
to make a variety of marks.

You’ll make a small painting study exploring juicy brush marks over a thin wash. You’re welcome to paint from a simple source
photo you bring, or from one that I provide.

Day 2
Morning demo showing how to use a palette knife and squeegee for beautiful, interesting marks. I’ll paint
from a simple landscape photo.

Topics will include color mixing, mark making, and conserving paint (using appropriate quantities while mixing).

You’ll either continue your previous painting or start a new painting exploring beautiful squeegee, palette
knife, or brush marks.

Day 3
Morning demo showing how to see and paint edge variety. I’ll paint a fruit or two.

Topics: hard, soft, and lost edges.

You’ll either continue your previous painting or start a new painting exploring edges.

 

Supply List

Demos will be with Cobra brand water soluble oil paint. If you would like to use this paint, too, I’ll bring enough to fill your palette! I can supply you with enough paint for up to 3 – 8×10 inch paintings with normal paint application.

Suggested Supplies

• Regular painting supplies.
  • palette, paper towels, and a tabletop or standing easel. Contact me if you don’t have any of these supplies, to see if I have extra.
• 3 Small gesso panels or canvas panels (I recommend 8×10”, or no larger than 9×12″), with standard acrylic gesso (not oil primed if using water mixable oil or acrylic paint)
• A way to take your wet paintings home (like a box you can lay them flat in, or a wet painting carrier).
• 3 simple photos that you would like to paint from (optional – I’ll have some photos, but most people prefer to use their own).

Paints

Demos will be with Cobra brand water soluble oil paint. You don’t need the same paint brand or colors I use.

• Primary yellow [OR azo yellow light, cad yellow light or medium, etc.]
• Cadmium Red [OR similar]
• Primary magenta. [OR quinacridone red or rose, rose madder hue, etc.]
• Ultramarine blue [OR ultramarine violet]
• Primary cyan. [OR cerulean blue, manganese blue, etc.]
• Titanium white

NOTE: You are welcome to bring any paint colors you rely on.

 

Mediums & thinners

• For water mixable oil paint,
  • WATER is your thinner! If you don’t like splotchy underpaintings, you can bring “solvent-free thinner.” (I will supply water and cups.)
• For traditional oil paint,
  • you can use Odorless Mineral Spirits, but for everyone’s healthy breathing it must be in a container with a sealable lid – with the lid on at all times you’re not dipping into it. The lid should not be off for more than a total of about 5 minutes/day or we’ll all get dizzy.
  • For stiff paint, Gamsol solvent-free gel helps.
  • NO terp! Please don’t bring any mediums with varnish or solvents in them, for everyone’s healthy breathing. If you’re not sure, just ask me.
• For Acrylic paint,
  • water or an appropriate medium

   

 

Tools I Like

• Silver Grand Prix long handle filbert sizes #2 and #4, or other filbert bristle brushes
• Long handle #4 or #6 flat bristle brush
• Golden or white taklon 3/4” or 1″ flat brush, or similar
• Golden or white taklon round #1 or #2, or similar
• Mini Trowel or another small palette knife for paint mixing and marks
• Small squeegee. A 1 – 3 ” silicone paint brush is great, or a 5 or 6” squeegee. I’ll have a couple that people can borrow. Squeegees over 6″ are not recommended.

Note: If you just want two brushes, get the ones above in bold italic.

 

Short Bio

Jessie Rasche is a professional artist based in South Dakota, originally from Seattle. She paints both in her studio and out on the gravel farm roads in the Midwest.

Her art focuses on landscapes alive with animals or people. With a passion for capturing the essence of life, Jessie seeks to foster a sense of connection with all living beings. Through her painterly use of oils, Jessie expresses a deep appreciation for the materials as well as the subject matter. Her work has been featured in fine art galleries and museums across the US, and has found permanent homes in public spaces and private collections in the US, Canada, and Europe.

Jessie is a Southwest Art Magazine “Artist to Watch,” an award-winning Signature member of the American Impressionist Society, and an exhibiting member of Oil Painters of America and the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota.

 

Andover Library will also advertise. Groups that we will give notice to are: Kansas Art Guild, Wichita Womens Artists, Kansas Oil Painters and Wichita Plein Air Enthusiasts.