Creating Your Own Style for Beginners - April

Creating Your Own Style for Beginners - April

Adult Course | This program is completed

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States

108

Beginner

4/1/2024-4/29/2024

9:00 AM-12:30 PM MDT on Mon

Download iCalendar

$323.75

$275.19

This is a fun course for beginning students. Through a combination of assignments and independent study, you will figure out what the heck your style might be. Your painting level doesn't matter, as long as you have a fun attitude and are willing to grow as a painter.

  • Paint

    Cadmium red, Alizarin crimson

    Titanium white (large tube)

    Burnt sienna, Burnt umber (large tube), Yellow ochre

    Ultramarine blue (large tube), Cerulean blue

    Permanent green

    Cadmium Yellow Medium

     

    Canvas

    Canvas boards or pre-stretched canvas at least 12” x 18”

    For those who want to create their own stretched canvasses, bring:
    - Stretcher bars (min. 12” x 18”)
    - 10-oz raw canvas fabric
    - Craftsman 1/4 Light Duty Staples *974424 and staple gun
    - Gesso and gesso brush (something like a cheap house-painting-style brush)

     

    Brushes

    1 or 2 round, series 4235 R #2 or smaller (Grumbacher-Bristlette)

    1 or 2 flat 1/2” - 3/4” (Professional Bristle)

    Silicoil – a metal coil you put inside a can use to clean your brushes

     

    Other materials

    Paper palette

    Mid-size palette knife

    Odorless paint thinner, container, rags

    Pencil & notebook

     

    Other materials and tools may be discussed in class.

MFA, University of Denver Gratiot was selected by American Artist magazine as a finalist in the American Realism Today competition. Gratiot's “John Lennon Sunglasses in Cellophane" won first prize at the Colorado Art Open Exhibition at Foothills Art Center. His work can be seen in numerous group shows and private collections. http://www.robgratiot.com/