Painting City Life

Explore colorful city landscapes in the five-week course. 

Practice painting in various styles from loose to detailed to create dynamic compositions with architectural elements and figures. Starting with sketches, the class works toward a final piece with depth and energy, through color and brushwork. This class will cover the fundamentals of painting including illustrations of the steps to create a painting from start to finish, color mixing, brushwork, and drawing. This class is open to all levels of painters.

Materials:

• Please bring your own photographs of subject matter you are interested in painting

– Oil Paints / Acrylic Paints

Kits with primary colors are great.  If you choose to purchase individual tubes of color, please include these: 

Utrecht Brand Preferred

• Cadmium Yellow Hue
• Hansa Yellow Light       
• Cadmium Yellow
• Permanent Orange
• Naphthalene Red Light
• Crimson Alizarin
• Ultramarine
• Cobalt Blue
• Payne’s Gray
• Sienna
• Naples Rouge
• White Titanium

– Bristle Brushes: Flat sizes: 2, 8, 12 and Filbert size 4

– Brushes from Home Depot- Flat 1”, Flat 2”

-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

-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

– Soap to Clean Brushes

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

–Canvas – 1 yard of unstretched canvas (can be purchased at Blick Art Supplies)

– Foam Backing for canvas

– Contractor 2” tape from Home Depot

– Utrecht  Acrylic modeling paste- small container

– Caran d”Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Artists Pastels 

Colors:

Black 009

Sepia 407

Vandyke Brown 045 

White 001

Black 009