Finding Your Inner Voice
Todd A. Williams
August 18 - 20, 2025
The ANA Studio
300 N. 2nd Street, Rogers, AR
10:00 - 4:00
• The examination of Finding Your Inner Voice; will be explored in squinting, design, value control, color control, edges, paint manipulation, variety/unity.
• Learn from the “Turn of the Century Masters” how to transform your paintings into Museum Quality – Works of Art!
• Benefit from learning how to condition your paint and produce the Alla Prima approach of painting. (Thin to Thick) (Wet into Wet).
• Add the skill of creating your own painting panels, dating back to Richard Schmid’s proven method of creating texture and movement in making your own painting supports.
• Oil or Preferred Medium
• Beginner to Advanced
• Instructor Demonstrations
• Individual Critiques
• Discussions and lots of individual attention
• All levels are welcome
Todd will teach his step by step method of painting the landscape in oil. He will discuss how to choose and crop the photo. He will focus first on initial placement and geometry of the major features on the canvas; setting the values by designing the shadow and light patterns; adding the colors, modeling fine details, checking edges to sharpen or soften as needed; finally the consolidation phase adding final touches to complete the painting.
The typical first day of the workshop starts with slide show presentation (I have a power point projector that I will bring) and studying several 20th century masters work in the morning. Followed by a painting demonstration in the afternoon where he will demonstrate and discuss his step by step process for painting a landscape from photos.
The second day each student will start their own painting following the seven step method demonstrated. Todd will work with each student individually to assist them understanding and utilizing his process.
On the third day, Todd will again do a demonstration, but this time he will paint only the first step and stop. The students will also paint the first step on their canvases and stop; then Todd will paint the second step and so on. Each student follows along in the same fashion with Todd demonstrating each step and then stopping to let the students catch up on their own painting.
The workshop will end with a final group critique.
Materials (Cheap Joe’s - https://www.cheapjoes.com or Jerry’s Artarama -https://www.jerrysartarama.com)
BRUSHES:
PALETTE KNIFES:
CANVAS or CANVAS PANELS:
PAINTS - Basic Colors needed:
(Do Not purchase WINTON brand, as it is full of filler)
Recommended reading books: “Hawthorne on Painting” by Charles Hawthorne (call 1-800-726-5232) and “Alla Prima” by Richard Schmid (call 1-800-939-9932)
My personal palette includes white ( a mix of titanium and zinc), Perm. lemon yellow, Perm. yellow medium, yellow ochre, permanent red medium, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, prussian blue, paynes gray, transparent oxide red, and mars black. (Basically 1 cool and 1 warm version of the three primary colors, and then a few neutrals)
I condition all paints ahead of time on my palette so they all have the same consistency before mixing . In some cases I add a couple drops of clove oil to my paint to keep it wet longer.
I begin mixing a pool of the correct value color mixture (vcm) and then mixing two more one on each side with one being slightly cooler and one slightly warmer. This gives me more variety when laying in the masses.
Support: Linen or Gesso on board 8x10 or larger
Other materials: Linseed oil and clove oil, various sizes of palette knives
For ANA members only.
For Non-members only
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