Beginning Acrylic

 

 

Class: Beginning Acrylic

Instructor: Mark Christopher

Medium: acrylic

Date(s): Wednesday, December 4, 11, and 18, 2024

Time: 1pm - 4pm

Cost: $150

 

Class Description:

Acrylic paints offer an incredible variety of possibilities, whether you're interested in building textural layers in your work, applying fine glazes to create a jewel like depth of color, or anything in between, acrylics got you covered! This class will cover an array of techniques and materials that will enable you to fully explore your creative vision. In addition to medium specific instruction, basic artistic principles like color theory, composition, design and a whole host of other insights into making art will be covered by Mark in this fun and information rich exploration.

 

Instructor Biography:

Nationally acclaimed artist and instructor Mark Christopher creates artwork that evokes emotion and inspires his students to do the same. For the past decade, his art has been admired and collected across the US and internationally while regularly being honored by his peers. Though formally trained in physics, his two greatest passions, creating and teaching, have informed and altered his life's journey and have become his life's work.

 

Cancellation:

Other

 

Supply List:

Paint (Golden, Liquitex professional grade, or comparable quality are highly recommended)
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light (or similar primary yellow)
Cadmium Red (or similar primary red)
Alizarin Crimson (or similar)
Yellow Ochre
Transparent red iron oxide
Ultramarine Blue (red shade)
Cobalt blue (or other primary blue)
Viridian

Brushes
Synthetic bristles that are not overly soft, Simply Simmons brushes are great for the price.
A variety of sizes, at least 1 brush 1" wide. For shapes, I use mostly filbert and flat brushes with a few small round brushes for detail work

Palette
Masterson stay-wet palette with the red lid. it comes with paper and a sponge that will need to be prepared before class

Canvas
Canvas panels are a great and inexpensive support for beginner painters, they usually come in packs that are an even better value. At least 12x16" or up to 16"x20"

Other

• Paper towels (Viva or the blue shop towels are durable and absorbent and will work way better than regular paper towels)


• Golden brand Retarder to slow the drying time of the paint


• Palette knives are useful painting tools as well as a mixing tool for your colors, I mostly use a triangular shaped one about 2 inches long, but other sizes and shapes can be useful and I would encourage you to buy a few to play around with.


• Cup for washing brushes in


• Color Wheel Pocket Guide with Gray Scale Value Finder, package on Amazon for $10


• Spray bottle for water


• I would like everyone to paint something of their preference but I'd also like it to be from a useful reference image. Please email me an image or 2 that you'd be interested in working from during class and we can work together to make sure it will work for our purposes.

 

Class Sizes:

Minimum Class Size: 6

Maximum Class Size: 15