Intuitive Acrylic Painting and Collage
Dates: July 19, 20, 21
Total Workshop Time: 18 Hours
Medium: Acrylic Painting
Skill Level: All Levels
Min Students: 20
Max Students: 20
Instructor:
Joan Fullerton
Description:
Want more expressive art? Want more confidence in yourself and about your art? Want to have a transformative experience with like-minded people?
This class will take you beyond any worn out or predictable painting methods. We will experiment with innovative techniques and a mindset of relaxed awareness which have been designed to cultivate your curiosity and self-confidence.
Inspiring demos, time to paint and group critiques, all reinforce helpful design and mindset objectives. Daily critiques will model how to discuss paintings with non-judgmental language that actually educates you to “see” more, and to appreciate whatever shows up, so that you and your art will flourish!
“Draw, scrape, roll, drag, spray, stamp, lift, write, drip, your way to fascinating non-objective or abstracted representational subjects. Within the random marks and shapes there is a story unfolding.”
Discussions address confidence, procrastination, vulnerability, curiosity, courage, inspiration, intuition, metaphor, symbolic elements, competition, belief systems, and more! I’ll help you dismiss that “mean ole inner critic” for greater productivity and authenticity.
All levels of experience are encouraged to attend.
Student Supply List:
Brushes:
Inexpensive 2” hardware brush and 1” synthetic flat brush (no need for expensive brushes)
Brayer
(printmaking roller, hard rubber)
Paints:
I mostly use FLUID ACRYLICS, a handful of colors plus black, white and Titan Buff. My favorite colors:
Quinacridone Crimson
Cobalt Blue
Green Gold
Yellow Ochre
Diarylide Yellow
Turquois (Phthalo)
Ultramarine Blue
Hansa Yellow Light
Pyrrole Orange
Oxide Green
Naphthol Red
Red Oxide
Titan Green Pale
Raw Umber
Feel free to bring YOUR favorite colors! (heavy body works too, in fact I like to have some fluid paint and some heavy body paint.)
4 or 5 substrates of your choice:
140 lb. watercolor paper (approx. 15” x 22” pieces) and/or stretched canvas, and/or board, and/or cradled wood panels (no smaller than 16”x20”)
At least one water-soluble colored pencil
Soft lead pencil
2 or 3 oil pastel crayons
Small amount of Rubbing Alcohol
Palette (anything to mix paint on)
Plastic sheet to cover table (Dollar Store shower curtain liner)
Plastic bag for garbage
Paper towels
Newspapers for painting lift
Masking Tape
Hand Protection: latex gloves or barrier cream
Apron or a smock
Journal/Notebook: for notes, ideas, drawing, etc.
The most important thing is to bring your sense of Adventure and Play!
PLUS KIT FEE: $5
(to be paid to the instructor by cash or check at time of class)
Kit will include small travel-size spray bottle, a page protector, water container & High Flow paint