“Drawing with Oil”

Oil "Rub-Out" workshop

 This 3-day workshop has not been scheduled yet for Ruidoso winter classes

Cost: $375.00

Prospectus for the Rub-Out
No one knows who invented the “rub-out” technique.  Art historians have dated the technique back to the time of Michelangelo.  The schools at that time required its mastery before students were allowed to explore color.  The traditional oil colors used are burnt umber and burnt sienna (the two raw pigments can also be used).  The support used here is board or canvas.  It is then acrylic gessoed and sometimes textured, then gessoed again.  The whole process is subtractive art and teaches the student light and dark values by reversing their usual experience of developing the illusion of form by first placing dark and working toward the light.  This wipe out, wipe off, rub off, or “rub-out” works from dark to light, accomplished by the use of fingers and a cotton/polyester rag, and is the next step in progression toward full color painting.  There is virtually no brush work.  Use of this technique, usually “loosens up” the art student.  Such is a quality most artists aspire to attain.

Student Supply List for Rub-Out Class

BRUSHES:

4 -3/16” to 1” wide                        Flat Sables
1- 3” or 4” disposable                     Foam brush
1- 2” or 2 ¼                                      Bristle Fan
1-1 ½ “                                             Sable Fan
1- #1 or #2                                       Round or Quill Sable
2- 2” ($1.15 at a hardware store)  Flat Bristle

Favorite Easel… sit or stand easel… either one will work.

TOOLS:

1- Silicoil brush cleaning Tank
1- 2 ¼” to 2 ½ “  step down, Round Point Painting Knife
6-8 Pair of latex gloves (walmart)
10- 14” (approx. size) squares of polyester/cotton blend, non patterned bed sheets (I get mine at the thrift store for 1-2 bucks
1 roll of paper towels
3- 16”x20” canvases or canvas board (wal-mart or Hobby Lobby)
1-Quart of odorless paint thinner or Turpinoid (walmart probably has it)

NO REFUNDS 30 days prior to class.

For those that have an emergency and are forced to cancel after the no refunds cancelation date, you can apply the funds to another class.