Williamsburg Oil Lecture with Phil Garrett

The Williamsburg Oils lecture is a two hour free educational presentation that covers topics essential to oil painting. During this event, attendees will learn about sizes & grounds, using oil over acrylics, pigment grind, color properties, oil mediums, varnishing, solvent-free painting practices, and health & safety! 

You will also get the opportunity to do several short hands-on exercises that explore the palette of paint textures due to variations in pigment grind and how pigment load can affect opacity, transparency, brilliance or muting of color. Compare the range of blacks and highlight useful neutrals and finish with a simple way to do a solvent-free clean-up. Each attendee will receive a color chart, product literature, and a small box of oil paint samples to take home.

Phil Garrett, a graduate of The San Francisco Art Institute,  has completed numerous artists’ residencies including The Sam And Adele Golden Foundation residence in New Berlin NY, taught painting and  printmaking nationally and internationally. He joined the Golden Artist Colors Working Artist Program in 1998 and the Williamsburg Oil Independent Artist Program in 2016. He is the Founder of King Snake Press and his prints and paintings are in public and private collections in the USA, Europe and Japan. In October 2005, 2006 and 2007 he lectured and taught workshops on acrylic painting methods in art schools in the cities of Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan sponsored by Golden Acrylic and Turner company of Osaka. He is the author of  the book INSIDE ACRYLICS published by North Light Books in August of 2013. New Mexico, Rome, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Peru, and has been featured in New American Paintings twice: in the 2015 West issue and the 2013 MFA issue.