In this class, there will be a wide range of traditional painting methods utilized using various mediums including ink, graphite, watercolor, acrylics, and oils as they can be used for quick sketch painting and drawing. Students may paint along during the class, and gain insight on tools, materials, applications, and various experimental mark-making techniques, as well as development of textures and effects. There will be a variety of tools and surfaces demonstrated to create dynamic, gestural and expressive strokes that indicate movement and mood, and capture the essence of the subject or story of the image. Subjects will include: figure and portrait, landscape, environment, backgrounds, objects and structures. Other topics that will be discussed in this class are: composition and storytelling, personal voice and vision, observation and perception, color, edges, flow, and the artist’s use of time as it applies to quick sketch and note-taking in art.
A virtual room link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date.
Complimentary 10-day access to each recorded session. Recordings are emailed the day after each live session.
I will be demonstrating and discussing many different mediums including: graphite, ink, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. The following is a list of the many things I’ll be using, but it’s not necessary to have all or purchase any of these for the workshop. If you already have some of these things but not the exact colors, for example, I encourage you to use what you already have.
For dry and water media, I will be using a variety of:
Graphite, Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic paints in various colors. For Acrylic, I use Heavy Body paints for building up textures, and I will show some of this with Heavy Body White, but regular viscosity is great too for most other things I’ll be doing in acrylic and other water media.
I’ll also use and discuss mediums such as:
Matte Medium and Gloss Medium/Varnish as well as gesso
Oil paints:
(You are welcome to use a limited color palette or other similar colors if you choose)
The colors I may be using during this class are:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Pale
Cadmium Red Light
Transparent Gold Ochre
Transparent Red Iron Oxide
Transparent Maroon
Burnt Umber
Ivory Black
Ultramarine Blue
I will talk about other colors that I use frequently as well such as the Grays and Radiants by Gamblin. If you do not have these colors listed above, don’t worry. If you are painting along, please just use what you have. And no matter whether you are painting along or just watching and taking notes, you can pick up any of these colors if you find you’re interested while taking the class, but it is not necessary to have all these colors.
If you’d like to use water-based media only, and not oil at all, that’s fine too but just be aware of drying time. Most of what I’ll demonstrate can be done in each of these mediums, and I will talk about this in the workshop.
Brushes:
Various sizes and shapes of sables from small rounds to mid-sized flats, brights and filberts
Various mops or large soft sables if you don’t have mops (basically something puffy and soft)
A couple larger bristles or utility bristle brushes, a couple medium-sized bristles could be good too.
Supplies for water-based media:
Jar/cup for water, rinsing brushes.
Supplies for oil-based media:
Gamsol mineral spirits or odorless turpentine
Jar for gamsol
Linseed oil or Liquin or Galkyd (for faster drying)
rags or paper towels
silicone spatula (kitchen spatula)
If you have more than one, that’s great, but one will be fine for the course.
Any other sort of silicone tools such as paint shapers or combs.
Other unconventional tools I may be using are scraps of foam core, kneaded erasers, rubber stamps, squeegees, paint rollers, plastic wrap, sandpaper, straws, misc. found objects.
I will discuss different surfaces and how they react differently to various media.
Some suggestions for surfaces to use:
Pre-gessoed masonite panel such as the Mona Lisa gessoed art boards
Matte board or illustration board
Yupo paper
If you do not have any of these materials, and especially because of the possible limited opportunity to go out to acquire new supplies, it is not necessary. You can still learn by watching and listening to the demo and I will show various options to try in place of some of these unconventional tools. You can also obtain the tools you may not have later to experiment on your own after watching the demo.
This online course requires the use of the Zoom program. You will need a computer, tablet or smartphone (with camera preferred) and internet. To download the program, click on the following link: zoom.us/download.
A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date. If you need help with Zoom, please let us know and we will schedule a short tutorial for you prior to your class.
Course Changes or Cancellations
LAAFA reserves the right to cancel any class/workshop, limit workshop size, change class/workshop times or substitute instructors for those listed in the schedule.
If a class/workshop is cancelled; students may transfer to another class/workshop, use credit on artschoolvideos.com, keep credit on file or be issued a full refund.
Refunds and Transfers
All online classes and workshops are non-refundable.
Absences
There are no make-ups available for online courses. Students are emailed a 10-day access to each recorded session, made available the next day after the live session.
Information
Campus Address
16926 Saticoy Street
Van Nuys, CA 91406
(818) 708-9232
contactus@laafa.edu
Business Hours
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Main Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
