Fundamental Painting
Saturday 10 a.m. - 12 noon
April 19 - May 10, 2025 (make-up class 5/17)
$124 for 4 class dates
Any session with a model will require $10 model fee per student.
E-mail Lisa to drop-in!
This class is geared toward beginners, but is appropriate for intermediate artists as well. Through individualized exercises with a combination of demonstrations and hands-on experience, Lisa will help you gain confidence in your own painting. Using still life, photos, and (when appropriate) models, class covers how to prepare canvases, block in a painting in several different ways, chiaroscuro and grisaille, glazing, capturing form through light and shadow, mixing color, and more. Come join us and see what you can paint!
Materials:
Please don't feel you must have everything. This is just a suggested list. Any art supply store should
have what you need.
- Canvas - several 9x12 canvas boards, 1 pad of 9x12 canvas paper (gray)
- Brushes - small round 1, medium round 12, 2 medium filbert (or bright) 6, medium fan 3
- Medium - odorless turpentine (or other odorless solvent), oil (any painting oil: walnut/linseed/Galkyd), damar varnish
- Paints - Titanium White, Ivory Black, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue
- Palette - one 9x12ish pad of palette paper, gray Jars with lids - one for cleaning brushes in turpentine (coil in bottom), one small for mixed medium, one small for clean turpentine. You can get a small metal two-pot clip-on, just make sure it has lids.
- Brush cleaner - preferably The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
- Paper towels - preferably Viva with choose-a-sheet
- Gloves - Some people prefer to wear disposable latex or nitrile gloves when painting.
Recommended reading:
- The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing
by Anthony Ryder - The Big Book of Drawing and Painting the Figure
by Muntsa Calbo' I Angrill
