Kimball Art Center

Park City, Utah Art Center

Thursday

Figure Drawing

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Share drawing techniques and skills in a group setting while working with a model to communicate poses and complete timed sketches. This open-studio session is just $12.50 per person. *Participants must be at least 18 years of age and bring their own drawing materials. Nude model.  

Suggested materials:
– Charcoal or graphite
– A sharpener
– Drawing board with clips
– Drawing Paper
– Kneaded eraser
or
– Sketchbook with colored pencils, graphite and sharpener

Daytime Intermediate Wheel Throwing Session 1

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Our Intermediate Wheel Throwing class is designed for students with a foundational understanding of wheel-throwing who are ready to advance their skills. This weekly course delves into more complex techniques, refining throwing methods, and exploring decorative elements. Students will enhance their proficiency through various projects. Each session combines demonstrations, hands-on practice, and personalized feedback from our experienced instructor, fostering a supportive and creative learning environment to help students elevate their pottery skills. This class is not intended for beginner potters. Please check our calendar to find a more appropriate course.

Note on firing: All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece. 

The $50 material fee includes a bag of clay, with options including Rods Bod, Death Valley, and Stoney White. Porcelain is not included. Students wishing to use porcelain can get their material fee refunded and purchase porcelain separately at the front desk.

 

Intermediate Wheel Throwing Session 1

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Our Intermediate Wheel Throwing class is designed for students with a foundational understanding of wheel-throwing who are ready to advance their skills. This weekly course delves into more complex techniques, refining throwing methods, and exploring decorative elements. Students will enhance their proficiency through various projects. Each session combines demonstrations, hands-on practice, and personalized feedback from our experienced instructor, fostering a supportive and creative learning environment to help students elevate their pottery skills. This class is not intended for beginner potters. Please check our calendar to find a more appropriate course.

Note on firing: All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece. 

The $50 material fee includes a bag of clay, with options including Rods Bod, Death Valley, and Stoney White. Porcelain is not included. Students wishing to use porcelain can get their material fee refunded and purchase porcelain separately at the front desk.

Painting Essentials

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Whether you’re new to painting or returning to the fundamentals, this class is your chance to build a strong foundation. We’ll cover essential techniques like color mixing, brush handling, layering, and composition using accessible materials. Through step-by-step exercises and guided projects, you’ll gain confidence and develop your own creative style. Perfect for beginners or anyone looking to refresh their skills in a supportive, hands-on environment.

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
  • Burnt Siena
  • 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

Daytime Intermediate Wheel Throwing Session 2

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Our Intermediate Wheel Throwing class is designed for students with a foundational understanding of wheel-throwing who are ready to advance their skills. This weekly course delves into more complex techniques, refining throwing methods, and exploring decorative elements. Students will enhance their proficiency through various projects. Each session combines demonstrations, hands-on practice, and personalized feedback from our experienced instructor, fostering a supportive and creative learning environment to help students elevate their pottery skills. This class is not intended for beginner potters. Please check our calendar to find a more appropriate course.

Note on firing: All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center 7-14 days after your class. We do not ship class work. If artwork is not picked up after 60 days it will be recycled. *Since artwork may look different after firing, make your pottery or sculpture recognizable by carving a signature into your piece. 

The $50 material fee includes a bag of clay, with options including Rods Bod, Death Valley, and Stoney White. Porcelain is not included. Students wishing to use porcelain can get their material fee refunded and purchase porcelain separately at the front desk.