Date/Time
10/10/2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
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Event Type(s)
Classes and Workshops
Event Description
Instructor: Patricia Sweet
Date: 10/10/2025
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Member: $60 Non-Member: $70
Discover the art of painting dramatic, luminous skies in this hands-on oil painting class. You’ll learn how to create soft, realistic clouds using an unexpected tool, Q-tips, along with mineral spirits to lift and blend color. Emphasis will be on the power of subtraction: sometimes it’s what you take away that gives the painting its depth and atmosphere.
We’ll also explore color mixing techniques and compositional strategies to help your skies feel both balanced and dynamic. By the end of class, you’ll have the skills and confidence to bring stunning cloud capes into your own work.
Supply list:
Artist Bio:
I am a 4th-generation Frank Vincent DuMond student, thanks to a group of 3rd-generation painters who took me under their wing in New Hampshire. Utilizing that palette and some of my personal “tweaks” to create depth, distant landscapes, and a subtle yet defining light effect are my strong points and passion. Now back in North Carolina, I am exercising my experience and eye en plein air and in the studio to capture the beauty of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.
Date: 10/10/2025
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Member: $60 Non-Member: $70
Discover the art of painting dramatic, luminous skies in this hands-on oil painting class. You’ll learn how to create soft, realistic clouds using an unexpected tool, Q-tips, along with mineral spirits to lift and blend color. Emphasis will be on the power of subtraction: sometimes it’s what you take away that gives the painting its depth and atmosphere.
We’ll also explore color mixing techniques and compositional strategies to help your skies feel both balanced and dynamic. By the end of class, you’ll have the skills and confidence to bring stunning cloud capes into your own work.
Supply list:
- Grey Flat Palette
- 8x10 Canvas Palette Knife
- Brushes(flat 1” & ½”)
- Q-Tips
- Glass Scraper
- Paper Towels
- Mineral Spirits & Sealable Container
- Oil Paints
- Titanium white
- Lemon or light cadmium yellow
- Cadmium Red Light or Orange
- Ultramarine Blue
- Alizarin Crimson
- Additional colors you could bring, but are not required to
- Ochre
- Cadmium yellow
- Cobalt Blue
- Raw Umber and/or Van Dyke Brown
- Viridin
- Phthalo Blue and/or cerulean
Artist Bio:
I am a 4th-generation Frank Vincent DuMond student, thanks to a group of 3rd-generation painters who took me under their wing in New Hampshire. Utilizing that palette and some of my personal “tweaks” to create depth, distant landscapes, and a subtle yet defining light effect are my strong points and passion. Now back in North Carolina, I am exercising my experience and eye en plein air and in the studio to capture the beauty of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains.
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