Beginning and Intermediate Painting

This 7 session, three hour class meets Saturday mornings 10am-1pm from July 24, 2021 through September 11, 2021. All first time Drawing Studio students, no matter how experienced, must take Intro to Drawing at The Drawing Studio before taking this class. Class will not meet on September 4, Labor Day weekend. Also, all students must be vaccinated for COVID 19 (two weeks after first shot is sufficient).

Beginning painting exercises will help students become comfortable experimenting with acrylic paint, using paint expressively, and reworking paintings. Breadth of color familiarity will be encouraged through color mixing exercises. More experienced acrylic painters may also take this class and elect to follow the exercises or work independently as they choose. There will be occasional figure models but fewer than in the Intermediate Drawing class (depending upon the number of experienced painters in the group and their interests).

Drawers who want to work from 2d subjects to build their skills before moving into more intense figure work may also join this class.

Materials: For the first session, painters should bring some acrylic colors you like, acrylic titanium white, acrylic gloss gel medium, some cheap brushes about 3/4 to 1 inch wide, and any shape palette knife. We will begin painting on the studio paper, so no canvasses are necessary. Drawers only need to bring graphite, charcoal, and erasers. Paper will always be provided.