Follow-the-Leader (Low Country) Oil Painting Workshop SEPTEMBER 23 -- 25, 2025 $600/person 10:00-3:00 p.m.
Follow-the-Leader (Low Country) Oil Painting Workshop SEPTEMBER 23 -- 25, 2025 $600/person 10:00-3:00 p.m.
Follow the Leader: Low Country Landscape Oil Painting Workshop
Duration: 3 Days
Join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop exploring the serene beauty of the Low Country—home to winding marshes, stately trees, and reflective coastal waters unique to the eastern Carolinas. Over the course of three days, you'll be guided step by step through the process of capturing these rich and atmospheric landscapes in oil.
Led by instructor Andy, you'll learn practical techniques to breathe life into your work and transform your paintings into compelling visual stories.
What You'll Experience:
Master techniques such as Prismatic Progression, painting reflective water and layered grasses, and integrating architectural or man-made elements.
Receive individual guidance to refine your skills and develop a stronger, more expressive artistic voice.
Bring your own materials (a full supply list will be provided prior to the workshop).
This workshop is a chance to deepen your practice and connect with the vibrant spirit of the Low Country. This workshop is not for beginners. While intermediate artists may find this workshop helpful, Andy has tapered this to assist the more advanced artists.
If you would like to use materials provided by Braitman Studio—including supports, brushes, Andy’s paints, and medium—there is an additional fee of $45.00. This option is available at the bottom of the page. Click on “ANDY’S MATERIALS” and add that to cart along with your workshop. If you decide to purchase this at the same time as your workshop, no further action is needed. Please purchase 3 weeks prior to your workshop so that we are able to get the needed supplies.
F- T- L Low Country WORKSHOP
with Andy Braitman —supply list
Materials List:
Oil brushes of various sizes,
including some flats and wash brushes (I will have Richeson wash brushes for sale if you do not have them!
A good clean palette knife
3 prepared canvases, at least 18 x 24 or larger (24 x 30 or 24 x 36 inches. There is no maximum size);
please see instructions following this list
A full set of oil colors (basic palette)
2 reds: Magenta
Azo red deep
And or Quinacridone Rose
2 yellows:
Cadmium yellow medium
Still De Grain (Transparent Yellow Oxide)
2 blues: Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Mixed black (we will make from Burnt Sienna & Ultramarine Blue)
A large tube of good white (recommend Utrecht White/Artist’s Oils or Permalba)
Any OPTIONAL colors you may want to add to your basic palette in the last stage of the painting
Medium: A painting medium is essential. Alkyd painting medium (like Res-N-Gel) or Liquin. I will have a few bottles of Andy Braitman’s special medium “recipe” (a mixture of liquin and stand oil) if you want to purchase it at $24/small bottle.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE COLORS MY FULL PALETTE CONSISTS OF:
Cadmium orange Utrecht Permanent Green Light
Williamsburg Alizarin Yellow Williamsburg Permanent Green Light
Williamsburg Pompeii Red Manganese Blue
Williamsburg Turkey Umber Dioxazine Purple
Williamsburg French Light Sienna Assorted Mixed Grays
Please let me know if you have any problems finding the paints you desire. I may be able to bring up any material that you can not find, and allow you to purchase them from me as I have a fairly large selection of colors and brushes in my studio.
GESSO PREP:
Please allow 3-4 days for this to dry
It is very important to prepare your canvas so that you are not behind for the workshop
At Home,
PRIOR to our
workshop:
1: Apply at least two coats of gesso on your canvases, allowing it to dry thoroughly between layers.
This will rob the canvas of its woven texture, and allow you to build a new directional surface on subsequent layers. Cheap Joe’s green label white gesso or Jerry’s Artarama Gesso is the best for this. Lay it down heavily and randomly (it will settle down as it dries).
2: After the Gesso dries thoroughly, Coat the entire canvas with an aggressive layer of Oil Paint color using a large brush and a lot of painting medium
- This will make the surface slicker for each subsequent layer and allow you to provide energy in this and the next layers
- This will provide interest and kill the white of the canvas
3: This is not intended to give you a head start, just a random and exciting color and surface for you to react to and to allow you to make the longer strokes necessary for your first layer of the painting
3 prepared canvases (please see instructions below)
reference photographs—I will have some for your to work from, or you may use your own—If you use my references for at least one painting it will help to facilitate the Follow-the-Leader process
painting apron
a roll or two of paper towels
vegetable oil and Dawn dishwashing detergent (I will teach you how to clean your brushes using these items)
trash bag
a pallet or paper palette
