Observation, Memory & Imagination

Adult Tuition-Free Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

4/6/2017-6/8/2017

1:00 PM-3:30 PM EDT on Th

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$15.00

Create art via observation, memory and imagination! Students will be guided through thumbnail drawings to a completed painting. Participate in discussions of master artist’s sketches, as they relate to the final artwork; explore creating art through interpreting music and sound; and learn how to expand your creative process to express the world the way you understand it.

All approaches from realistic to abstract are welcomed!

What will you learn in this class?
1. Gain an understanding of visual memory, and how it operates during observational drawing, as well as during imagination.
2. Experience using a drawing diary to plan paintings.
3. Completion of at least one planned painting, from thumbnail, through crit, to relative completion.
4. Developing a sense of how your own drawing in paint leads to ideas.

  • START THE TERM WITH THESE SUPPLIES:
  • • a pocket sketchbook is required, size 4 x 6 inches *
  • • Graphite pencils 4B, 2H *
  • • Kneadable eraser *
  • • 2-4 tortillons or stumps *
  • For the student looking for a low-cost, and easy set of paints, John suggests any one of the following systems of painting:
  • Acrylic painters will need: *
  • • A container for water
  • • Disposable palette *
  • • A palette knife *
  • • A roll of paper towels
  • • Either Canvas, Canvas Board, or Canvas Paper *
  • • Brushes: #10 or #12 flat bristle, #8 flat bristle, #4 round bristle, and #2 or #4 nylon bristle round *
  • • Suggested Color palette: Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue, Cadmium Red Hue, Cobalt Blue Hue, Permanent Green Deep, Ivory Black, Titanium White, Ultramarine, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber. *
  • Oil Painters will need:
  • • A metal palette cup (double) *
  • • Turpenoid *
  • • Linseed oil *
  • • Either Canvas, Canvas Board, or Canvas Paper *
  • • Disposable palette *
  • • A palette knife *
  • • A roll of paper towels
  • • Brushes: #10 or #12 flat bristle, #8 flat bristle, #4 round bristle, and #2 or #4 nylon bristle round *
  • • Suggested Color palette: Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Red Hue, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Cobalt Blue Hue, French Ultramarine, Ivory Black, Permanent Green Light, Titanium White, Viridian Hue, Yellow Ochre *
  • Watercolor Painters will need
  • • A container for water
  • • A pad of watercolor paper *
  • • Brushes: one nylon or camel’s hair 1” flat, and one nylon or camel’s hair #8 or #12 round *
  • • Suggested color palette: Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Chinese white, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose, Pthalo Green, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian. (Any basic set of watercolors is also fine, instead of these, to get started. ) *
  • It is possible to buy stronger versions of some of the colors listed below at local art supply stores, or online. The advantages of “Hues” are low cost, safety, and the ready unity of colors mixed from them. John will recommend an upgrade, if he thinks it necessary for what you are trying to do. If you have already been using paints and have a kit with which you are familiar, please work from that.

  • Items marked with an * are available for purchase in Fleisher’s school store. Members receive a 10% discount on art supply purchases.