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Oil Painting Energy with a Palette Knife
Plein Air Workshop with Ken Wilson
October 2023
Finger Lakes / Canandaigua NY
PRICE per person: 1 Day Workshop $135
Saturday Oct. 21 - Workshop Hours: 10am – 4 pm
Update: as of Oct. 12th - we will painting indoors the PRR gallery classroom, due to the unpredictable weather and temperatures. Ken will be doing his demo with and bring along reference materials we will be painting from.
If the weather improves at lunch time we can walk nearby and paint about Main Street near the gallery.
Canandaigua Lake, NY
One Day Workshop - Oil Painting Energy with a Palette Knife
Saturday, Oct. 21 - Oils
All Skill Levels of Painting Experience Welcome!!
Ken will show you how to capture the energy, drama, action movement and detail using various techniques with a single palette knife; creating towering, dramatic sky-scapes with panoramic landscape views. You will learn how to “squint” and paint different landscape objects using impasto application of oil paint which will add exciting textures and sculptural elements into your painting. .
Workshop Hours: 10am – 4 pm
About Ken Wilson
Ken was born, raised and educated in Albany, New York. Following a decorated career with the New York State Police, Ken has become a recognized, award-winning artist, specializing in equine and landscape painting, and best known for his landscape paintings done in oils with palette knife. He was recently featured by Eric Rhoads in the Outdoor Painter Podcast – How to paint with a Palette Knife.
Ken became a full-time artist in 2013 and has a knack for making a scene come to life. Ken works in a variety of styles; some paintings are strictly representational, while others come from a more abstract perspective. Much of his work is done Plein Air, and he says he’s one of very few African-American plein air artists in the country, as well as the first African-American artist to paint and retail equine art at a major race track in the United States, namely at Saratoga Race Course.
Ken said Plein Air painting, gives him “the peace and catharsis of just getting out there and creating something.” Much of his work can be seen using an impasto technique with a heavy textures combined with vibrant use of colors, often mixing colors straight on the canvas and applying with a single palette knife. The effect that impasto can give is one of movement and energy. The texture allows certain areas of the painting to become striking—an if an artist can harness this texture in such a way to make areas of their painting stand out to the viewer as can appear very dimensional and sculptural. That’s where the magic can be found as one can imagine Van Gogh felt the same way with his impasto oil Starry Night.
Jared, a student enjoying the workshop!