Drawing Into Painting
Adult Class | This program is completed
This course is for students who would like to review their drawing compositional skills and approach to painting. The first few weeks will be spent reviewing drawing skills, developing ideas for painting and discussing painting materials, demonstrations of color mixing and how to transfer their subject to the canvas. Midway through the course, students will begin creating paintings based on their drawings and exploring painting as a medium. Students may choose for them selves from a range of paint including oil, ink, guache, or acrylic paint as their medium.
What you will learn:
1. The importance of scale and composition in painting
2. Drawing with paint
3. Transcribing color values from black and white drawings to color
4. Painting techniques and paint mixing
5. How to tell when a painting has reached its conclusion
Please note: This is an 8-session class. Class will not meet on Monday, January 20 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and on Monday, February 17 in observance of President's Day.
Start the term with these supplies:
• Pencils
• 14" X 17" Drawing pad (80lb.)
• Charcoal (med/soft)
• Eraser
Midway through the term students will need:
• Paper palette and palette knife
• Several sizes of flat head and round head brushes
• Stretched canvas (sizes will be discussed in class)
• Oil paint or Acrylic paint of your choice in the following colors: a large tube of white paint, and regular size tubes of cadmium red, primary yellow and primary blue, burnt umber, burnt sienna and violet (purple)
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Emilio Maldonado
Emilio Maldonado is a Dominican-Puerto Rican artist living in Philadelphia. Received an MFA from Savannah college of Art and Design, A BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico and an AAS from Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic. Has been featured in group shows both locally and abroad including the Santo Domingo 23rd Modern Art Museum Biennial (2013), Saint Louis Fashion Week, Philly Fashion week, Vox Populi’s Make/Shift exhibition, as well as multiple group and solo shows throughout Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the United States. He has been a resident artist at Elsewhere Residency in Greensboro, NC (2013) and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Philadelphia, PA (2020). In 2021, he was named part of the 2nd cohort of the Mural Arts grant for Philadelphia black Artists and as one of the 20 emerging black artists to watch by the Philadelphia inquirer .He is also a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Philadelphia, where he lives since 2017.