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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Develop a practice to let your imagery take on a more personal, vibrant direction. We’ll study some of the interesting details that make up the island’s classic style of living. Abstraction needs somewhere to start! A simple view of harbor can become the playground for experimentation. A maritime table set for a meal can be a stepping stone for investigation and editing.

Take your photos, your ideas and collaborate with others as we change up the perspective of what it is that inspires us.
Bring photos, sketch books and perhaps some essays or poetry. That’s a good start.

For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education*

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

PLEASE NOTE: The AAN’s Painting studio is equipped with easels and glass top carts for palette use and daily personal storage. Due to this studio’s evening classes in a variety of media, please be prepared to leave your cart and easel clean, store work in progress in drying racks provided, and transport your supplies to and from the studio each day. Storing unused paint in a plastic palette bin is suggested. Thank you in advanced for your consideration.

Materials List:
If you have a basic collection of oil paints, I would think that would do. The following is what I generally use: any brand is great but for the best success, steer away from student grade oil paint. If some of these are not familiar to you, it’s alright„,I can share if you’d like to experiment with them.

Oil Paint
Gamblin makes most of these, unless specified;
Ultramarine Blue
Paynes Grey
Manganese Blue Hue
Cobalt Blue
King’s Blue (Williamsburg)
Violet Grey (Holbein)
Radiant Violet
Quinachrodone red
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red
Cinnabar Green (HOC)
Emerald Green
Cadmium Yellow
Indian Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber, Burnt Umber
Unbleached Titanium (Williamsburg)
Titanium Zinc White

Brushes
Large, Medium & Small hog bristle Filberts, Flats & Round Brushes
or any of your favorites

Canvas
18x24 canvas pad and a few canvases….16x20, 20x20, 24x24 

Other
sketch book, graphite pencil (8B, 9B)
walnut oil, wide mouth jar
palette paper, palette knife, surgical gloves, cotton rags or paper towels or both

Abstracting What You See, 18+

Julie Gifford

Julie Gifford has been a painter and life long art enthusiast for as long as she can remember! She studied in a range of academics prior to receiving her BFA from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She attended Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende in Guanajuato, Mexico where she studied metal work and print making, Following Mexico, Julie studied at The Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and Rhode Island School of Design. In her 15 years of living on-island with her husband & kids, she studied with celebrated artists such as Sherre Wilson Lillegren, Robert McKee, Ken Layman, John Lochtefeld, and on… Her work is now being collected internationally and can be seen in the beautiful surroundings at Nantucket Looms, the Artists Association of Nantucket as well as Alpers Gallery in Rockport, Cape Ann and on-line at greylady.com. The continual process of painting and editing of her work has always been inspired by the towns of both coasts. While living in Nantucket she helped to develop Nantucket Workshops with partner, Anne Sutherland. Since then, Julie has continued to host private classes and workshops from Los Alamos, California to Cotuit, Massachusetts where she now resides.
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