Bold Strokes: Expressive Still Life Painting
Fall Workshop | Registration opens Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:00 AM EDT
In this fun and engaging two-day workshop, you ’ll dive into the alla prima technique, painting directly from life to capture movement, emotion, and energy in your still life compositions. Inspired by the bold brushstrokes of John Singer Sargent, you'll learn to work quickly and confidently, completing your painting in a single sitting while the paint is still wet. By focusing on the FUN-damentals of playful brushwork, color, and composition, we ’ll take the intimidation out of painting and make the process enjoyable and liberating. You ’ll discover how to transform still life subjects into dynamic, vibrant works of art, all while having fun in a relaxed, supportive environment.
- Bring 2-3 8 X 10 substrates stretched gessoed canvas or linen or panels 8x10.
- Whatever you are most comfortable with. Brushes:Synthetic Long Flats & Long Filberts: (Various sizes: 2, 4, 6, 8) – Bristle Filberts & Rounds: Size 6 or 8Small RoundsLarge Long Flat
- Blender Oil Paints (Artist grade recommended): Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Transparent Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson Permanent , Permanent Rose, Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue Deep, Viridian Palette I use glass with tone behind it or grey-toned paper palette,
- Palette Knife A flexible mid-size palette knife (2 ”-3”) is nice for scraping and applying/mixing paint,
- Mediums/Solvents Gamsol or Odorless Mineral Spirits with a sealable container Additional Supplies:
- Paper towels (Viva or Blue Shop Towels are recommended)
- Pen/pencil and paper or sketchbook
Noel Yheaulon
Noel Yheaulon is Philly-based figurative painter, raised in the pastoral Amish countryside of Southern Chester County. After years of working as a visual artist, I formalized my training in classical realism at Studio Incamminati, an atelier in South Philadelphia. I primarily work in oil, creating figurative pieces with expressive backgrounds that explore the primordial union between the human body and the natural world.