Kimball Art Center

Park City, Utah Art Center

Painting

Fearless Abstract Painting

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Join professional artist Samantha da Silva for a transformative 2-day workshop designed to unleash your creativity. In this immersive experience, you’ll explore innovative techniques, using rollers instead of brushes and unconventional materials like paint, plaster, and sand to create textured abstract art that reflects your unique vision. Let go of fear and silence your inner critic in a supportive environment where exploration and fun take precedence. No prior experience is needed — just an open mind and a willingness to dive in.
 
Discover the fearless artist within you. Join us and create something extraordinary!
 
What to Expect
1. Opening Circle: We’ll start our journey together by connecting as a group. Share your intentions and set the tone for a weekend filled with creativity and inspiration.
 
2. Philosophy: Dive into the idea that “the process of creating evolves into ideas.” You’ll learn that every stroke of paint is a step toward discovering more about yourself and your art.
 
3. How to Begin: We’ll discuss how to set your intentions and how to tone your canvas to prepare for a day of artistic exploration.
 
4. FearLESS Abstract Painting Foundational Techniques: Experience hands-on learning as you use nature as your inspiration. You’ll master techniques like applying paint with rollers, blending colors with water, and manipulating the canvas to create depth and texture.
 
5. Texture Exploration: Discover the differences between modeling paste and gel medium, and learn how to make your own mediums using local materials like salt, sand, and sawdust.

Still Life Painting Concepts

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Develop your own unique style while exploring the tools and techniques to make a great still life painting from start to finish. Practice the elements of art and design, composition, color theory, and brushwork, while drawing inspiration from the romanticism of everyday objects to learn new approaches to creativity and evoking feelings and memories with paint. Techniques like priming, layering, glazing, and varnishing will be demonstrated. Students will walk away with a finished painting as well as confidence to continue to explore the medium.

All ability levels benefit from this class. This is a 4 week course.

Materials:

– Sketchbook

– Pencils

– Eraser

– A pad of Canvas paper (Oleo, thick watercolor paper, or canva paper is fine)

– Oil Paints OR Acrylic Paints

Kits are fine, but if you choose to purchase individual tubes of color, please include these:

  • Titanium white
  • Ivory black
  • Cadmium Red
  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Phthalo Blue
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Lemon Yellow

– Optional additional colors Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber

– Firm Bristle Paint Brushes Please select one or two small, medium, and large round brushes, as well as flathead brushes

-Palette: A palette is any surface on which you can mix your paint. I prefer to use a covered palette which preserves paint for longer use. You want a palette big enough to mix all your colors on

– Odorless Gamsol, Turpenoid, or other odorless mineral spirits

-Linseed Oil: Linseed oil increases the transparency of paint as well as the fluidity, while maintaining the paint’s oil base.

-Glass Jar: to hold our solvent. You may want to purchase one with a metal coil inside to help clean brushes. Bring an extra empty, sealable jam jar as well.

-Palette Knife; if you prefer to mix your colors with brushes, that is fine.

-Rags: Used for cleaning/drying brushes

-Painting Clothes: These are clothes you don’t mind getting paint on

-Canvas: Canvas boards are very economical but you may want to choose a stretched canvas. The stretched canvases one can purchase at art stores are already primed and ready to paint on. If you are stretching your own canvas, you will need to prime your surface with an acrylic gesso.  Bring at least one of a smaller dimension, for example an 8” x 10” canvas board, and one larger surface, for example a 16” x 20” stretched canvas.

Painting Concepts Plein Air

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Develop your own unique style while exploring the tools and techniques to make a great landscape painting from start to finish, using nature as your studio. Immerse yourself in Utah’s natural beauty with plein air painting concepts and elevate your artistic practice to capture the stunning scenery surrounding us.

With a new location chosen each week, student’s will have the chance to paint outdoors amidst Park City’s varied and beautiful natural landscape. We will learn about composition, value and color relationships, layering, and steps to develop a plein air process. Overcoming the challenges of painting in shifting light and changing weather is invigorating and fulfilling! Oil or acrylic medium is encouraged. This is an 8 week session.

Materials List

Instructor: Varied

OFFSITE CAMP Color Splash: A Bold & Bright Art Camp @ Parleys Park Elementary

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Get ready to dive into a world of color! This camp is all about bold hues, vibrant creativity, and hands-on fun. We’ll explore painting, printmaking, mixed media, and more—experimenting with bright palettes, color mixing, and eye-catching designs. From abstract masterpieces to imaginative landscapes, every project will be a celebration of color and self-expression. 

 

(Grades 1- 3)

Camp will be at Parleys Park Elementary – more information can be found on Compass























Painting FUNdamentals

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Express yourself while exploring oil painting. Practice the basics of color theory, proper application of paint, and fundamentals of composition and design. Because each student is unique, projects may be altered and one-on-one instruction will be given to suit each student’s skills, talents, knowledge, and interest level. This camp is for 10-14 yr olds. Due to the Kimball Arts Festival, this will be a 4-day week with no camp on August 1.
























Identity Through Art: Find Your Style!

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Dive into a world of artistic expression in our mixed media camp where students explore a myriad of mediums on canvas. From acrylics and watercolors to collage and texture paste, discover the endless possibilities of combining different materials to bring your unique vision to life. Embrace experimentation as you learn to layer, blend, and manipulate diverse mediums to create captivating compositions. This camp is for 13-18 yr olds. Due to Pioneer Day, this will be a 4-day week with no camp on July 24.