Wednesdays, 5:30–7:30pm
October 29 – November 19
Non Member: $300
Member: $270
A foundational class for beginning to advanced painters of a variety of media –oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, and pastel.
Learn how to design paintings that will captivate your audience and clearly convey your ideas! Strong compostions are built in considered steps from the beginning. Use shape, contrast, color, value and color skillfully in your work. Through exercises you will develop and refine yur perceptual sensitivity to be able to see compostion in terms of shape and flow. You will acquire the tools to be able to dramatically imporve the way you paint nad the visual impact of your work.
We meet live online in in an interactive format-log on ready to paint! You will need a personal device (smart phone, tablet/iPad, laptop, or desktop computer) with camera and audio capability.
1. PAINTS
Acrylic, oil, gouache or watercolor
Bring all tubes of paint that you have on hand and we will go through them and choose
the limited palette colors needed for the different lessons.
If you do not own any paint at this time purchase the #2 expanded palette colors on my
materials page on my website plus the additional earth colors listed https://
marybyrom.com/info/classesandworkshops/
materials/ . Buy professional grade paint.
We will discuss additional colors and supplies in the first class.
2. BRUSHES
Bring a selection of brushes brights flats rounds natural bristle brushes or synthetics if
you have them.
Sables, soft brushes and synthetics are fine if you paint with gouache or watercolor.
Brush list on my materials page is here: https://marybyrom.com/info/
classesandworkshops/materials/
In the first class: We will discuss brushes that you need to use.
3. SUBSTRATES
We will be painting lots of small color tests and color experiments in this class.
For acrylics and oils use gessoed mat board, gessoed card stock, gessoed canvas
paper or canvas paper pad. Any stiff heavy paper will work if it is gessoed on front and
back with 1 coat of gesso. Paper weight - 98 pound and heavier is fine.
You do not have to use real heavy paper for gouache. You can paint on 98 pound paper
or 140 lb.watercolor paper. If you already own watercolor paper, use that.
4. SKETCHBOOK
My students find that keeping their color tests in one place, inside a sketchbook helps
them keep track of them for future use.
If you do not own a sketchbook a good one to start with is the Canson multimedia 98 lb
paper. I use an 11x14 size for all my color tests. I also use Arches , Khadi and
Kilimanjaro,140 lb, 100 % cotton paper for color tests which I then glue into my 11x14”
Canson sketchbook.
If you have other heavy weight paper you like to use please feel free to use it. You can
gesso the pages if you are using oils. Acrylic on watercolor or multimedia paper should
be fine without gesso.
SIZE: You can use any size sketchbook you prefer. Some students in the past painted
all their colors mixes in small 4X4” sketchbooks (140 lb paper) so they could take the
small book with them on plein air painting excursions. They used this book for color
mixing formulas while out doors painting on location.