Beginning and Intermediate Painting

This 10 session, three hour class meets Saturday mornings 10am-1pm from January 14, 2023 through March 18, 2023. All first time Drawing Studio students, no matter how experienced, must take Intro to Drawing 1 at The Drawing Studio before taking this class. Intro to Drawing 1 will be offered Spring Term.

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).

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.