Description
We are pleased to have the SBPC’s 2025 Annual Art Show’s Best in Show award winner, Rich Flanegan, join our line up of outstanding workshop instructors in 2026. Participants will learn his basic techniques for realistic results (photo realism). Rich will show you how to achieve the mood in the painting by focusing on light and shadow, color, and values. His techniques include the small important details that, as a viewer, invite you to step into the painting. Participants will be painting two canvases. First, will involve painting a technical demo using an image of his “2025 Best in Show” painting as an example. Second, you will paint your own original masterpiece applying the techniques you have learned and using an image of your choice. Rich will have images available or participants can bring one of their own.
Rich is an award winning artist that has been painting since he was five years old and taught for 20 years. He, along with his wife Diane (a stained glass/mosaic artist), moved to Pinehurst, NC a few years ago from West Cape May, NJ. He concentrates on painting with oil and his most successful works are landscapes and seascapes. This was evident in his first appearance at the SBPC’s 2025 Annual Art Show, where he was awarded Best in Show (Summer Morning Path), 2nd Place, Landscape (Crossing a Mountain Stream), 1st Place, Waterscape (Atlantic Sunrise), and Honorable Mention, Waterscape (Low Tide (Rocks)).
SUPPLY LIST:
- Basics:
- 2 stretched/wrapped canvases, 11 x 14 or 12 x 16
- Roll of paper towels
- Cotton swabs (Q-tips)
- Gamsol or any odorless mineral spirits
- Can or glass jar to put the mineral spirits in (Rich prefers a brush cleaner type with a screen on top)
- Plastic bag to remove and take home used paper towels
- Palette knife with a narrow point
- Brushes:
- Stiff hog bristle or versatile synthetic filberts, flats and rounds in sizes 2-10. Plus a fan brush and liner for trees and grasses.
- Paints:
- Large tube of white, 37ml
- 1.25 tubes: Cerulean Blue, Ultra Marine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Light, Viridian, Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, and Payne’s Gray.
