Description
Cost: $450
Date: July 29th-31st
(Registration deadline: June 8th*)
Don’t miss the opportunity to work with the renowned and nationally recognized illustrator Raymond Bonilla for a fine art workshop in late July!
Includes:
- Room (two nights)
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- All workshop classrooms
This workshop will deal with the concept of methodology of painting the human head in the medium of acrylic paint. We will be thoroughly discussing the principles of drawing and their relationship to painting, palette organization, capturing the color of the human head, and much more.
Supply List:
When noted, please get exact brand of paint as colors vary between manufacturers. This class emphasizes the use of a limited palette, so it is critical that you have the exact brands and colors listed here. These colors can be ordered online at the suppliers listed below if you can’t find them in you localart supply store.
*Brand: Winsor Newton Artists’ Acrylic* Palette-TitaniumWhite, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre, Naphthol Red Light
- Strathmore 400 Series Drawing, Medium Surface, 12″x18″Wire Bound Drawing Pad
- HB (or #2), 6B Graphite pencil
- Portable easel (French easel, Sierra Pochade Box, Open M, etc.) anything that will support a 12”x16” painting
- Large kneaded eraser
- Acrylic primed Masonite or Canvas Panel, Size: 12”x16,” Qty: 2
- Spill-proof brush washer (portable container to clean brushes)
- Plastic grocery bags for garbage
- Paper towels
- Brushes: I use Princeton Series 6100 Summit Synthetic Brushes, but any good-quality brushes will do. However, please purchase long-handle hand brushes, Style: Round, Filbert, or Flat brushes, one each, Size: 2, 4, 10
- Palette Knife – 3-4”, similar to Dick Blick item #03117-1005
- Small – medium pump spray bottle (for misting acrylic paints to prevent them from drying out)
- Medium/dark – colored clothing or painting apron (bright colors reflect onto the canvas and affect the colors you’re painting).
*If workshop not filled by registration date, SunCliff reserves the right to cancel this workshop with a full refund.
RAYMOND BONILLA
Illustrator/Fine Artist
Biography
Mr. Bonilla graduated from the State University in New York at Fredonia in 2005 with a degree in New Media and Illustration. He has studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he completed his Masters of Fine Art in 2009. He has been awarded Best in Show in the Great Lakes Emerging Artist Competition, and been a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition. In addition, he has been awarded Gold Medals in advertising from both Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles, and juried into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual.
His interest in painting and animation lies in the role of an “illustrator as a visual journalist” and the subject of memory. While painting and animation have approaches and aesthetics that may be unique to themselves, at their core these disciplines both allow artists the ability to document the human experience. His art is rooted in the influences of impressionist painters, illustrators, and animators of the 19th and 20th centuries. He uses an artistic language that is deeply rooted in the visual vocabulary of figurative and abstract art of the past. From these, he takes the traditional artistic tools of color and form, which allow him to immerse viewers in my pictures, allowing those viewers to appreciate his work both for its literal and abstract qualities. He strive to create art that records his observation of the world around him, whether it be a direct observation or a statement of internal reflection. Ultimately, he seek to make work that is a “visual journal” of the human condition.
BUILD YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE • Register online at suncliffonthelake.com
Contact ray@raymondbonilla.com for curriculum questions • Contact suncliffonthelake@gmail.com about food & lodging
