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FA25 (A) Debra Nadelhoffer’s Oil Painting
Date/Time:	Thu 8/14/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM This class continues on: Thu 8/21/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Thu 8/28/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Thu 9/4/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Thu 9/11/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Thu 9/18/2025 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location:	Abernathy Arts Center
Class Price:	$200.00
Notes:	Supply List: PLEASE NOTE: Since I put these lists together, Winsor Newton has put together cadmium-free paints. I have found that theirs are my favorites. I am slowly replacing the cadmium when I find one that works well. Otherwise, I am replacing some traditional colors. This is a suggested supply list for oils. You do not have to have all of these, and you can bring your palette. I bring most/some of these on location. For those of you who would like to bring less, please see the second list. I have listed what I use and the brand name of the oil paints, but you can choose to use your brands. Oil Painting Supply List #1 Palette: Titanium White (any) I use M Graham rapid dry Yellow Ochre (any) Transparent Gold Ochre (WN) Cadmium Yellow Pale or Cad Yellow Light - Cadmium free by W/N Cadmium Yellow Deep (WN) - Cadmium free Indian Yellow (WN) Cadmium Orange Pyrrole Red - replacing Cadmium Red Light Permanent Rose - replacing Alizarin Crimson Terra Rosa (WN) Transparent Oxide Red (Rembrandt) Sevres Blue (Rem) French Ultramarine Blue (WN) Cobalt Violet Hue (WN-Winton) warm Viridian (REM) Greenish Umber (REM) Extra time colors: Radiant Violet Radiant Green Naples Yellow Light (REM) Legend: (G)=Grumbacher (WN)=Winsor Newton (Rem)=Rembrandt I have been working with Phthalo Green especially with water scenes. The transparents can help with ocean layins. I will add and take off colors trying them out so I might have other colors not listed here OIL PAINTING LIST #2 LIMITED PALETTE LIST For those of you who would like to bring fewer paints, please take a look at this list. You should bring 1 cool and 1 warm of each of the primaries plus white and viridian. I suggest: Reds: Pyrrole Red Warm Permanent Rose Cool Blues: Sevres Blue (Rembrandt) Warm Ultramarine Blue Cool Yellows: Cadmium Yellow Deep Warm Cadmium Yellow Pale Cool Titanium White and Viridian

In this class, students will work on composition, value, shapes, and techniques in oils.  We will be using photos or occasionally work from setups to examine the effect of light on subjects. Students can bring their own photos to work from or use some provided by me. This class will help students make better decisions about how to begin a painting and carry it through sthe tages to completion. If you are looking to step up in your painting journey, this class will get you started.

For convenient parking located nearest the tennis courts – use GPS address:  6621 Bridgewood Valley Road, NW, Sandy Springs, GA 30328.  

Instructor Bio:

I have loved color and creating since I was a child. Rainy days spent inside coloring or painting were my favorite activities. Not much has changed; a rainy day remains an invitation to turn on some beautiful music and create at the easel. As a young adult, I married, and since we lived in a rural area, it was not easy or affordable to take art classes. I painted from home while raising my family, studying books and working first with watercolor, then pastels, and finally oils. Each medium had its own strengths, and I now use something from all of them to create my paintings. As my family grew, I went to work and began to take life classes in the evenings after my youngest child left for college. It was so exciting to be able to learn from wonderful artists. I painted at night and on the weekends working in oils and pastels.  I was president of Southeastern Pastel Society for seven years and came into contact with some talented artists. The desire to paint from life sent me outside into the landscape to paint plein air.  Painting plein air has enhanced my work beyond what I could have imagined.  I continue to paint plein air for my own education, working on location and bringing information back into the studio where I remember colors, sounds and impressions that no photograph can duplicate. I have found my passion painting the landscape in oils and pastels with all of its many moods, trying to share my vision with the viewer. I particularly love painting the mountains, coast and water anywhere. My greatest compliment is when someone says my paintings make them feel like they are there.

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