OIL PAINTING 1 DAY INTENSIVE
w/ Todd Bonita. Winthrop, MA. Saturday, June 06, 2026 (10a-4)
OIL PAINTING (Todd Bonita)
(Beginners - Intermediate)
Saturday, June 06, 2026 (10am -4)
E.B. NEWTON CULTURE CENTER (Lyceum Room)
45 Pauline St. Winthrop, MA
(Limit 14) $75
This one day, intensive painting class will introduce you to the classical approach of creating monochromatic, grissaille underpaintings. This time-tested technique pre-dates the Renaissance and has been modified over 600 years and has found its practice in the hands of artists like DaVinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Bouguereau amongst others. It is also widely used by Alla Prima (direct) painters to employ glazing strategically for finishing, depth and refinement. Artists who complimented their works with glazing include Sargent, Monet, Velasquez and Antonio Lopez Garcia amongst others. We will complete a single painting using an umber and white underpainting, slowing down to completely dissect and comprehend the steps of drawing, design and value sensitivity. This will be followed by thin, transparent washes of color to achieve a luminous affect. Our goal will be to simplify the painting process and create a work with mood, atmosphere and poetic depth. This is packed with valuable information that has been passed down through centuries by the great masters.
(Beginners - Intermediate)
Saturday, June 06, 2026 (10am -4)
E.B. NEWTON CULTURE CENTER (Lyceum Room)
45 Pauline St. Winthrop, MA
(Limit 14) $75
This one day, intensive painting class will introduce you to the classical approach of creating monochromatic, grissaille underpaintings. This time-tested technique pre-dates the Renaissance and has been modified over 600 years and has found its practice in the hands of artists like DaVinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Bouguereau amongst others. It is also widely used by Alla Prima (direct) painters to employ glazing strategically for finishing, depth and refinement. Artists who complimented their works with glazing include Sargent, Monet, Velasquez and Antonio Lopez Garcia amongst others. We will complete a single painting using an umber and white underpainting, slowing down to completely dissect and comprehend the steps of drawing, design and value sensitivity. This will be followed by thin, transparent washes of color to achieve a luminous affect. Our goal will be to simplify the painting process and create a work with mood, atmosphere and poetic depth. This is packed with valuable information that has been passed down through centuries by the great masters.
REGISTER:
Contact Todd Bonita
Phone: (603) 819-9100
Email: [email protected]
We accept:
* Checks: Total $75
* Credit Cards
* Pay Pal
* Venmo ; @Todd-Bonita
* Cash for teachers pet.
If sending a check, please make it out to Todd
Bonita and mail it to:
Todd Bonita
28 McShane Ave
Greenland, NH 03840
Please write "Oil Painting Winthrop" in the memo on the check.
Contact Todd Bonita
Phone: (603) 819-9100
Email: [email protected]
We accept:
* Checks: Total $75
* Credit Cards
* Pay Pal
* Venmo ; @Todd-Bonita
* Cash for teachers pet.
If sending a check, please make it out to Todd
Bonita and mail it to:
Todd Bonita
28 McShane Ave
Greenland, NH 03840
Please write "Oil Painting Winthrop" in the memo on the check.
*Please feel free to bring whatever supplies you use to make oil paintings, however, here below are the supplies I use and recommend. Alternatively, you can rent art supplies for the class for (includes everything below, except paint brushes).
Supply List
(I buy my supplies at Jerrysartarama.com, Dickblick.com, Cheapjoes.com, Utrecht.com)
Please bring a table easel, I have extras if you don't have one. You may also bring a standing easel if you wish to stand.
Pallet
I recommend a wood pallet...try to avoid paper pallets.
Paint
*(I recommend a minimal palette of a warm and cool version of the three primaries plus white (with maybe a few extras)....A total of 9 colors but I have included some additional (optional colors) if you wish to expand and experiment. Please spend the extra for professional grade paints, be careful not to buy the student grade paints. I use Winsor & Newton, Gamblin and Utrecht but there are many good options.)
Titanium White
Cad Yellow medium
Yellow ochre
Alizeran Crimson Permanent
Cadmium Red Medium
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Sap Green
Raw umber
Ivory Black
Burnt Sienna (Optional)
Painting surface.
Canvas, gessoed wood panels, oil primed panels, canvas or linen mounted to panels are all fine.
I use oil primed wood panels...I recommend (8x10”) or (9x12”)....Please dont run to Michaels last minute and get the slick surfaced, gessoed panels they sell...they are aweful and paint slides off of them. Get something with a little tooth to it...just a little though.)
Brushes
*Assortment of bristle brushes (I suggest large, medium and small in three styles: Flats, Rounds and Filberts. I mostly use Robert Simmons Signet series flats #3, #6 and #10)
*Assortment of synthetic flats and or filberts for glazing color.
*Small synthetic rounds for details. (I suggest Winsor and Newton Septre Gold 2 in the 404 series...size 4 and / or size 6)
Other
*Trowel type Pallet knife
*liquin and pallet cup
****Gamsol (Turpentine substitute) with container or medium glass jar (No turps aloud in studio, sorry, please use Gamsol.
*paper towels (Blue shop towels are the best)
* Soft pencil, eraser
*Ruler, straight edge or a mahl stick (something to make straight lines with is handy)
*A Veiwfinder: Important! Whether homemade or store bought, it must be adjustable or proportionate to your canvases. Viewcatcher is ideal.
*Ruby Beholder (This is a quilters tool, a simple red piece of plastic used to see values, Amazon.com has them)
*Artist paint box for supplies
*Wet paint carrier. I love the PanelPaks...they are lightweight and convenient or you could use a pizza box.
**(I have extras of everything so please do not stress or panic if you can’t find that tube of yellow, etc…For best deals, shop online at Jerrys Artarama, Dick Blick, Utrecht or Cheap Joes.
www.toddbonita.com
www.toddbonitagallery.com
Supply List
(I buy my supplies at Jerrysartarama.com, Dickblick.com, Cheapjoes.com, Utrecht.com)
Please bring a table easel, I have extras if you don't have one. You may also bring a standing easel if you wish to stand.
Pallet
I recommend a wood pallet...try to avoid paper pallets.
Paint
*(I recommend a minimal palette of a warm and cool version of the three primaries plus white (with maybe a few extras)....A total of 9 colors but I have included some additional (optional colors) if you wish to expand and experiment. Please spend the extra for professional grade paints, be careful not to buy the student grade paints. I use Winsor & Newton, Gamblin and Utrecht but there are many good options.)
Titanium White
Cad Yellow medium
Yellow ochre
Alizeran Crimson Permanent
Cadmium Red Medium
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Sap Green
Raw umber
Ivory Black
Burnt Sienna (Optional)
Painting surface.
Canvas, gessoed wood panels, oil primed panels, canvas or linen mounted to panels are all fine.
I use oil primed wood panels...I recommend (8x10”) or (9x12”)....Please dont run to Michaels last minute and get the slick surfaced, gessoed panels they sell...they are aweful and paint slides off of them. Get something with a little tooth to it...just a little though.)
Brushes
*Assortment of bristle brushes (I suggest large, medium and small in three styles: Flats, Rounds and Filberts. I mostly use Robert Simmons Signet series flats #3, #6 and #10)
*Assortment of synthetic flats and or filberts for glazing color.
*Small synthetic rounds for details. (I suggest Winsor and Newton Septre Gold 2 in the 404 series...size 4 and / or size 6)
Other
*Trowel type Pallet knife
*liquin and pallet cup
****Gamsol (Turpentine substitute) with container or medium glass jar (No turps aloud in studio, sorry, please use Gamsol.
*paper towels (Blue shop towels are the best)
* Soft pencil, eraser
*Ruler, straight edge or a mahl stick (something to make straight lines with is handy)
*A Veiwfinder: Important! Whether homemade or store bought, it must be adjustable or proportionate to your canvases. Viewcatcher is ideal.
*Ruby Beholder (This is a quilters tool, a simple red piece of plastic used to see values, Amazon.com has them)
*Artist paint box for supplies
*Wet paint carrier. I love the PanelPaks...they are lightweight and convenient or you could use a pizza box.
**(I have extras of everything so please do not stress or panic if you can’t find that tube of yellow, etc…For best deals, shop online at Jerrys Artarama, Dick Blick, Utrecht or Cheap Joes.
www.toddbonita.com
www.toddbonitagallery.com
TODD BONITA PAINTINGS
TODD BONITA
TODD BONITA (b. 1968)
I fell in love with the ocean while growing up in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a small New England harbor town outside of Boston. After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, I continued study of classical painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. A twelve year career as an illustrator followed until I focused full time on fine art oil painting in 2006, creating oil paintings for art galleries and collectors. I currently maintain a studio space at The Button Factory artist studios in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I love painting coastal New England imagery outdoors in plein air, equally as much as crafting more involved compositions in my studio. Above all, I love the process and simple joy of being with my tools and painting. My work is currently represented by ten art galleries around New England, Florida, Michigan, Canada and the UK. and is in hundreds of corporate and private collections world wide, including 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush. I have had the good fortune to have exhibited in four Art museums and I am blessed to call this craft that I love my full-time occupation. I currently own and operate the Todd Bonita Art Gallery in both Ogunquit, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I am also owner of the Ogunquit Art Colony School, where I teach painting classes and International art workshops year round. I live on the New Hampshire seacoast with my son Max and daughter Kate.
Life is good.
I fell in love with the ocean while growing up in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a small New England harbor town outside of Boston. After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, I continued study of classical painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. A twelve year career as an illustrator followed until I focused full time on fine art oil painting in 2006, creating oil paintings for art galleries and collectors. I currently maintain a studio space at The Button Factory artist studios in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I love painting coastal New England imagery outdoors in plein air, equally as much as crafting more involved compositions in my studio. Above all, I love the process and simple joy of being with my tools and painting. My work is currently represented by ten art galleries around New England, Florida, Michigan, Canada and the UK. and is in hundreds of corporate and private collections world wide, including 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush. I have had the good fortune to have exhibited in four Art museums and I am blessed to call this craft that I love my full-time occupation. I currently own and operate the Todd Bonita Art Gallery in both Ogunquit, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I am also owner of the Ogunquit Art Colony School, where I teach painting classes and International art workshops year round. I live on the New Hampshire seacoast with my son Max and daughter Kate.
Life is good.