8/3-9/4
BEGINNING WATERCOLOR
INTRO TO FIGURE PAINTING
CHANDLER WOODFIN
ENCAUSTIC PAINTING
ANNE PETTY
HAMID ZAVAREEI
Tuesday 9:30am-12:30pm 8/4-9/1
Monday 1:30pm-4:30pm 8/3-8/31
Starting with basic color theory, this class takes you all the way through brush techniques and paint applications. Whether you are a beginning painter or pursuing watercolor as a new medium, this class supports your efforts by offering both classical and modern expressive techniques.
Learn to create accurate, dynamic figure paintings in oil. Painting from the model, you work from short- to long-poses as you study color-mixing strategies and application techniques. With each figure painting you develop your understanding of oil painting and how to treat the figure as a pictorial subject.
P1588SU
P1580SU
Learn the basics of this ancient, luminescent medium, including material, surface and painting techniques as you explore a range of encaustic applications: from the simple application of clear hot wax medium on your painting surface to layering, incising, transferring and imbedding of images along with other techniques. $25 partial materials fee payable to instructor.
Thursday 6:30pm-9:30pm
Beginning
8/6-9/3
$235
INTRO TO PORTRAIT PAINTING
All
$250
BOTANICALS IN INK & MIXED-MEDIA
JIM PHALEN
JULIA RICKETTS
Friday 9:30am-12:30pm 8/7-9/4
Tuesday 9:30am-12:30pm 8/4-9/1
Learn to create an accurate, dynamic portrait in oil as you capture the features of your model. Working from short to long poses, you study color-mixing strategies and paint application techniques. With each painting you develop your understanding of painting the portrait from observation, oil techniques and how to treat the portrait as a pictorial subject.
Explore the wonderful world of sumi ink and methods for creating rich and lively botanical paintings. The course begins with expressive line drawings in sumptuous black ink, using traditional calligraphy brushes. Then, explore the use of tonal washes, layering and the addition of dry materials such as conté crayon and pastel. Botanical subject matter is provided and shared by the class.
P1589SU
Beginning
$250
P1581SU
All
$235
LARINE CHUNG
P1578SU
All
$235
BASICS OF OIL PAINTING HAMID ZAVAREEI
Monday 6:30pm-9:30pm 8/3-8/31
Combine your new knowledge with drawing skills to understand the concepts of contour, value, shape, volume, form and perspective for a more comprehensive experience. Principles of paint handling and proper use of material go hand-in-hand in building skills to render still-life objects progressively from simple to more complex. Turning form and creating space, use of positive and negative space and creating sound compositions are incrementally incorporated. P1579SU
Beginning
$235
ANNE PETTY
PAINTSESSION B
PAINTING THE FLOWER IN OIL
ABSTRACT PAINTING Wednesday 1:30pm-4:30pm 8/5-9/2
Wednesday
Utilizing multiple references, experiences, subjective preferences and objective observations, create images about nothing and everything. There is no specific formula or style assumptions and all students are encouraged to develop a personal visual language, whether it’s wildly gestural, hard edged geometric or something hybrid and in between. Some previous painting experience preferred.
Nature offers such amazing lessons for artists, and summer is one of the best times to explore! Learn how to paint beautiful flowers by first studying Fantin-Latour master works. These exercises improve your sense of perception. Then recreate a floral still-life painting from life. Learn from close observation topics such as value, composition, gestural dynamics, shape and texture of flowers.
P1585SU
Intermediate
$235
DRAWING FOR PORTRAIT PAINTING HOLLY WHITE-GEHRT
Thursday
6:30pm-9:30pm
8/6-9/3
Learn the basics of drawing and value structure which underlie a successful realistic portrait, including cropping the figure, blocking-in and honing your intuitive skills to capture a likeness. Drawings are transferred to canvas for a value study using the “wipe-out” method. This technique can be used to make a strong underpainting for full color portraits. P1587SU
All
$250
P1584SU
1:30pm-4:30pm
All
8/5-9/2
$235
INTRO TO PLEIN-AIR PAINTING
Tuesday 1:30pm-4:30pm
8/4-9/1
Discover how to include personal content in your work, and learn to make it work visually! A shoebox of ephemera is your springboard into the exploration of personal imagery in painting. Collect photos and found objects to explore in a series of studies designed to edit and abstract the source material. The studies form the basis for a painting in which private imagery is transformed into a contemporary visual statement. Studies are done in wet and dry media on paper; painting may be done in oil, acrylic, or watercolor. P1582SU
All
$235
JIM PHALEN
Wednesday
1:30pm-4:30pm 8/5-9/2
Get the most from painting outdoors this summer with this practical guide to creating oil paintings in nature. Begin with discussion on how to choose and prepare your materials, including palette choices and color mixing strategies for plein air painting. Through a series of paintings, you learn how to compose using simplified block-in to direct painting techniques. P1586SU
All
$235
STILL-LIFE PAINTING BASICS ERIC ELLIOTT
Tuesday 1:30pm-4:30pm
8/4-9/1
In a step-by-step process, learn the methods of oil painting while exploring the still-life genre. In order to remove fear and promote your artistic confidence, you consider value, warm and cool relationships and color as well as methods for self-correction and problem solving. P1583SU
PORTRAITS IN WATERCOLOR HAMID ZAVAREEI
JULIA RICKETTS
LARINE CHUNG
MICHAEL OTTERSEN
EXPLORING PERSONAL IMAGERY
Beginning
$235
Monday 9:30am-12:30pm 8/3-8/31
Experimenting with traditional watercolor techniques including various washes, glazes and scumbles, stretch the boundaries and experiment with looser approaches and different color pallets for flesh tones. This course is a study in both drawing portraits and application of watercolor in portrait painting. Study from live models focusing on the head, facial structures and proportion emphasizing the economy of line; capturing the essentials of the human face with simple contours, but without shading or value, allowing the watercolor to build the volume and structure of the head and face and render the values. Light, shade, form and volume are constructed in gestural, broad strokes with the interplay of warm and cool colors with multiple layers of watercolor. Drawing experience recommended. P1577SU
Beginning
$250