Painting 102: the Fundamentals
Live lessons (recorded if the time doesn’t work for you)
This is a solid path to stronger representational painting skills. Contact me with any questions.
When: 5 Tuesdays from 10am – 12:30pm Central / Chicago time. Dates TBD.
Skill level: Beginning painters.
Painting medium: For traditional oil paint, water mixable oil paint, or acrylic paint. Demos are in oil paint (or pencil for the drawing section). The ideas apply to any medium.
Topics
1. Drawing
- Learn to draw shapes, angles, and perspective.
- Learn to make thumbnail sketches for paintings.
2. Value how light or dark things are
- Learn to see value accurately.
- Learn to paint value accurately.
3. Color
- Learn to name colors accurately and usefully.
- Learn to see color relationships.
- Learn to mix the colors you want.
- Learn to paint colors without getting muddy.
4. Composition
- Learn about composition.
- Learn to use composition sketches.
5. Simplify (Learn to simplify what you’re looking at.)
10 student minimum. If the workshop is canceled, students will get a full refund.