Kimball Art Center

Park City, Utah Art Center

Weekly Class

Painting Exploration

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Find your own painting style.

Develop your own unique style while exploring the tools and techniques to make a great painting from start to finish. Practice the elements of art and design, composition, color theory, and brushwork, while drawing inspiration from artists around the world to learn new approaches to creativity  and expressing emotions 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.

Materials:

– Sketchbook 

– Pencils 

– Eraser 

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

– Oil Paints / 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.  

Expressive Painting

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Practice painting expressively in this five-week course focused on capturing the human form. 

Through various exercises and demonstrations, learn how to mimic gestures and movement seen in the figure with energetic brushstrokes.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

Painting & Drawing City Life

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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

Handbuilding in Clay Session 4

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A 5 week session that allows the artists to design, form, and complete a hand-building project using slab, coil, or pinch construction. Surface and glazing techniques will be explored and designed to complement their project. Clay handbuilding techniques allow for true freedom of form. Captivating asymmetry and unique sculptural aesthetic can be achieved using techniques like slab rolling, pinching, and coil building. We will learn and practice the skills needed to create functional and sculptural vessels, finishing with carved patterns, attached elements, underglazes, and glazes to decorate our handbuilt pieces. Students will walk away with unique ceramic art. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center lobby 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.

Handbuilding in Clay Session 3

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A 5 week session that allows the artists to design, form, and complete a hand-building project using slab, coil, or pinch construction. Surface and glazing techniques will be explored and designed to complement their project. Clay handbuilding techniques allow for true freedom of form. Captivating asymmetry and unique sculptural aesthetic can be achieved using techniques like slab rolling, pinching, and coil building. We will learn and practice the skills needed to create functional and sculptural vessels, finishing with carved patterns, attached elements, underglazes, and glazes to decorate our handbuilt pieces. Students will walk away with unique ceramic art. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center lobby 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.

Handbuilding in Clay Session 1

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A 5 week session that allows the artists to design, form, and complete a hand-building project using slab, coil, or pinch construction. Surface and glazing techniques will be explored and designed to complement their project. Clay handbuilding techniques allow for true freedom of form. Captivating asymmetry and unique sculptural aesthetic can be achieved using techniques like slab rolling, pinching, and coil building. We will learn and practice the skills needed to create functional and sculptural vessels, finishing with carved patterns, attached elements, underglazes, and glazes to decorate our handbuilt pieces. Students will walk away with unique ceramic art. All work will be fired and ready for pick up in the Kimball Art Center lobby 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.