Empowering the Painter

Adult Online Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

9/9/2020-11/11/2020

10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Wed

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$285.00

$255.00

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Find your voice and your vision in a creative environment devoted to learning, discussion, and painting. This class is focused on helping the painter in you achieve the visual potential of your canvases. You will have a chance to improve your technique and expressive style in a supportive atmosphere, with personal attention from instructor and group critiques. The class uses a mix of still life and individual projects that span the range from realism to abstract expressionism. Students are also welcome to work on paintings that have a longer developmental path. Painting inspired by drawing, and past studies, is also encouraged.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. Helping your painting show to its fullest potential.
2. Improvement in awareness of formal qualities and how to handle them.
3. Appreciating one's own discoveries in painting — that gift you express through the gesture and spirit of your personal style.
4. Learning from past art, as well as contemporary artists

  • This is an online class hosted through Zoom. We recommend that you download the free Zoom application on your computer, phone, or tablet in advance of the first class.

  • Within 48 hours of registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the course via Zoom. The same link will be used each week.
  • For the student looking for a low-cost, and easy set of paints, the instructor 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. 11 X 14 is a good starter size.
  • • Brushes: #10 or #12 flat bristle, #8 flat bristle, #4 round bristle, and a 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
  • • Odorless 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 a nylon bristle round
  • • Paints:
  • Titanium white (true experimenters might use flake white), Naples yellow, Yellow ochre, Cadmium yellow hue, Raw sienna, Burnt sienna, Indian red, Cadmium red hue, Quinacridone red, Ultramarine blue, Terre verde, Viridian, Raw umber, Burnt umber, Ivory black
  • It is possible to buy stronger versions of some of the colors listed above at local art supply stores, or online. The advantages of “Hues” are low cost, safety, and the ready unity of colors mixed from them.
  • The instructor will recommend an upgrade if 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.