Just Do It! How Not to Make Mud: Painting with Color A
Adult Course | Available
"If you hear a voice within you saying 'You are not a painter' then by all means, paint... and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh
It's so fun to use a lot of color, so let's play! This class is geared for all levels with a goal towards developing your own style of painting. We all have an untapped reservoir of creativity within us .
You will work on two 30x40 canvases for the length of the class. Reworking each canvas every week to continually experiment with all the elements of art - visual components of color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.
- This class explores tools and techniques in painting to help you develop a painting style that is within you and is your own, tailored to develop your own painting voice. We will explore color, hue, value, and composition by painting on muliplie canvases simultaneously and developing new ideas over the weeks. Utilize various medias within the paint, such as raw charcoal sketch, wax, or texture. Have fun and play! Try new techniques and materials with your painting.
- Two 30x40" painting panels or canvases
- Color Wheel
- Oil or acrylic paints, paint sticks (R & F) colors should include:
- White
- Ultramarine Blue
- Perm. Alizarine Crimson
- Sap Green
- Phaloe Green
- Cadmium yellow
- Cadmium red light
- other colors YOU like!
- Oil stick (if you like)
- Brushes
- Palate Knives
- Paper Towels
- Gloves
- Water bottle
- Medias
- Brush Washer
- Pallette box / paint storage
- vine charcoal
- charcoal pencils
- Small sketch pad
- Whatever else you like to paint with