Thursdays: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Teen To Adult
Cost: $139 for 5 weeks
Next Session: April 30th- May 28th, 2020
Have you always been drawn to the beauty of watercolor painting? Linda Serway Bordwell is a local watercolor artist who will provide a comfortable class where you can learn about this medium. You will be guided along from preparation, demonstration, practice, discussion and group critique. You can read the artist’s bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.
Suggested materials:
• 1 full sheet of Arches Cold press 140 lb paper or 9 x 12 watercolor block
• Transparent watercolors: French Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone Red,
Hansa Yellow
• Flat watercolor brushes: 1 1/2” and 3/4”
• Round brushes: 5,10,12 and 14 and a rigger
• Water container
• Sketch pad, pencils and gum eraser for sketching
• Palette with wells
• Paper towels
• Masking tape or clips
• Painting board (larger than paper and rigid enough to resist flexing)
If you do not have any paints or brushes, you can wait until the 1st class to see what colors you will need, defendant on your subject matter and you can purchase from open stock the colors you need
Weds 5:30-7:30 6/5/19 – 7/10/19 skip 6/26
-5 weeks $139
Anne Jurgens, award winning artist and certified instructor, will lead you through the wonders of watercolor. This class is intended for beginning and intermediate students with emphasis on expressing ourselves with paint. Beginning students will learn basic watercolor techniques including how to apply flat washes, graded washes, and glazes, wet in wet and dry brushing techniques. We will earn about composition, values, line, and color as elements in a painting. For intermediate students who wish to choose their own subjects, instruction will be individualized.- You can read the artist’s bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.
Supply List:
- Paper: Arches 11×14 100% rag, 140 Cold Press, watercolor paper in a 5×7 or 6×8 pad or block or 1 sheet of Arches 140# watercolor to cut into smaller pieces
- Brushes: Sable is best. Synthetic is okay Rounds #1, #5, #8 Flats: 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 2 inch, Rigger
- Water Container – One for clear, one to clean brushes can be as simple as a couple of
cottage cheese containers.
- Paper towels – to soak up excess water
- Pencil – #2
- Pallet : Make it large enough to hold 16 colors and have space to mix paints
- Paints: Here are the basics. You can buy more, but we can build almost any color
from these..
- These consist of both cool and warm in the primary colors enabling us to
be able to make the colors we need..Buy your colors In tubes or in cubes. Any brand,
except where noted you usually get better results with Professional grade, you can use Cotman when brand isn’t noted.
- Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna*
Reds: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarine Crimson, Permanent Rose
Blues: Cobalt Blue, Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
Others: Winsor Newton Sap Green, Winsor Newton Burnt Sienna
- Waterproof board – To tape your painting to
- Knife for scoring . I prefer an exacto knife, , and a small hair dryer
Instructor Victoria Brzustowicz
6 week Class $179
Mondays 6:00-8:00
Next Session: 1/08/24 -2/12/24
(Check October for our New Daytime Oil Class)
Course Description:
In this class we’ll explore materials, fundamentals, and best practices of oil painting, with an emphasis on direct or “alla prima” techniques. Color mixing and creating a range of colors from a limited palette will be taught. For students with previous experience in color mixing, a more complex palette will be used. Paint from your own sketches, photos, or studio still life. We’ll have demos in each class that will cover various topics such as various ways to start an oil painting, oiling out, stretching a canvas, preparing a panel, glazing, and varnishing.
- Supply List:
- If you already have oil paints, please bring them to class and we will work with your selection. If you don’t have supplies, here is the minimum to get started!
- Paints
Napthol Red (or equivalent) –
Ultramarine Blue –
Hansa Yellow Light (or equivalent)
Titanium White
- Surfaces
Canvas panel or gessoed panels in a variety of sizes, preferably 11 x 14 and smaller. Since we will be working alla prima, aim for smaller sizes if possible. 8x 10 is wonderful.Brushes: a least one of each, not too small! (4-6). We will discuss the individual marks that each type of brush makes, and you can add to your collection as you go.
Filbert
Flat
Round
- Palette Knife
- Gray Matters Disposable Palette Pad 12 x 16
- Masterson Sealed Palette
- Gamsol
Teen-Adult $155 7:00-9:00 6 weeks 3/23/22 – 05/4/22 Skip 4/20
Join Artist and owner of The Art Stop, Cindy Corrigan, to explore the many possibilities at your fingertips when you paint with acrylics. Learn about the many different mediums and what they can do for you to enhance your paintings. Learn about working with color, contrast, composition and negative space, all in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Beginner to Intermediate. Supplies: Bring something to do a tonal study (if you want to transfer your sketch onto your canvas, make your paper the same size as the canvas you wish to paint) Reference material is optional, we have many photo reference as well as still life material. Bring the acrylic supplies you have and Cindy will go through your supplies with you to see if you need anything additional after she sees your subject matter. No Liquitex Basics or paints from a Batat set.
Monday’s 5:30-7:00
7 weeks $139 1/17/22 – 3/7/22, skip 2/21
Join artist and owner of The Art Stop Cindy Corrigan, in this painting class for ages 9+. Learn about different mediums and how they create different effects. Creative Art Class is a prerequisite or the confidence to sketch out your canvas. The instructor will help if needed with sketch. This class is strictly acrylics, but the subject matter is up to the student.
- Supplies
- flat palette
- palette knife
- paper towels or rags
- No Battat or Liquitex Basics paints, if you do not have any acrylics, hold off until you know the subject matter, then you can choose from open stock
- Sketching pad, pencils, charcoals or conte` crayons for tonal sketch
- You may bring your own reference photo or you can wait until class starts and look through reference material in the studio
