Description
Learn how to work WITH acrylic paint, instead of against it! Join our 2-session workshop for encouragement and fun as we explore acrylics in all their unique potential expression. Topics included: brush care, ways to think about the paint’s viscosity, the most common mediums and what they do, and how to work with glazing, impasto, posterization, and sgraffito. Absolute beginners to intermediate will all find a place in this 2-session class. A workshop ticket gets you into both sessions. Must attend session 1 (or watch the video replay of session 1) in order to attend session 2. There will be 2 hours of acrylic homework between sessions (after Session 1 and before Session 2).
Session 1: October 26, 2023
Session 2: November 2, 2023
To register for this workshop:
- Click the ADD TO CART button.
- Click the VIEW CART button to complete the registration and payment.
Supply List for this workshop
- protected work area, smock
- white Gesso (pronounced “jesso”)
- 2 stretched canvases, approx 11×14”. Both must be primed white before our workshop. If the label doesn’t say it comes “primed,” you’ll need to prime it before our workshop with gesso.
- Paper towels
- 2 Water jars (plastic or glass)
- Palette: paper plates (must be WHITE and wax-coated); or use a white styrofoam meat tray, or plastic or wood palette, or a pad of palette sheets.
- Pencil or vine charcoal
- Pink eraser
- Palette knife for mixing paint (plastic or metal)
- Acrylic Paint: See Paint List Below…
Paint
I recommend the following brands: Grumbacher Academy, Graham, Golden, Winsor & Newton student grade,Liquitex, Cheep! brand, and similar brands.
The following brands are not as effective to buy for this workshop, but if you have them, you can certainly use them: ProArt, Reeves, Art Advantage, Folk Art, Apple Barrel, craft paints in bottles.
Acrylic Paint Colors we will be using:
- Titanium White
- Payne’s Gray
- Yellow Ochre
- Azo Yellow or a similar yellow
- Magenta or Rose Madder or Quinacridone Red or similar red
- Cerulean Blue or Phthalo Blue, or a similar blue
Brushes
Inexpensive acrylic brushes are fine, as long as the bristles don’t fall out as you paint.
Recommended brushes:
- a ¾-inch filbert or similar,
- a ½-inch flat brush or similar,
- a round #4, 6, or 8 or similar,
AND
- 2-inch cheap, flat bristle brush or similar (a small house-painting brush is fine).
- Optional: ANY other acrylic colors you want to bring to this workshop.
- Optional: Matte medium or gloss medium if you already have it. To hold peaks: heavy gel medium.