Creating Your Own Style: Oil or Acrylic Painting
Adult Course | Registration opens 8/5/2025 10:00 AM MDT
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 positive attitude and are willing to grow as a painter. You will advance your skills in color, position, size, shape, line, texture and density control in painting.
Paint Colors:
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 boards or pre-stretched canvas at least 12” x 18”
1-2 round brush, series 4235 R #2 or smaller (Grumbacher-Bristlette)
1-2 flat 1/2” - 3/4” brush (Professional Bristle)
Silicoil – a metal coil you put inside a can use to clean your brushes
Paper palette
Mid-size palette knife
Odorless paint thinner
Container
Rags
Pencil & notebook
Water spray bottle for acrylic painters
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)
Other materials and tools may be discussed in class.
Rob Gratiot
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/