Finding Your Focus: Intermediate Painting with Linda Walker: Thursdays (Fall)

Name: Finding Your Focus: Intermediate Painting with Linda Walker: Thursdays (Fall)
SKU: 41714
Availability: InStock

Price range: $165.00 through $190.00

Expand your vision and take a bolder approach to painting.

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SKU: N/A Categories: Adult Art Classes, Adult Classes

Description

Thursdays, September 24 – November 5 (No Class October 15)
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

This 6-week class is for the painter with experience in either oil or acrylic.

The class will cover essential terms and common practices as a review, but move on to design, value control, additional color mixes, creating neutrals and other topics that will expand your experience and painting options.

This class will use representational sources. Please bring several photos to work from that have a good range of values. Bring what you love and want to paint. If possible, please print your photos. Original photos, taken by the student, are recommended to avoid any copyright conflicts.

Each class will start with a brief discussion of various aspects of painting, including:

Design essentials and values
Addition and use of translucent colors
Edge control
Human form in the landscape
The importance of darks
Expressive brush strokes
Personal style and how to find it

Class participation and questions are strongly encouraged. After a short discussion period, the remainder of the class will concentrate on painting and individual critiques.

Please register early as class registration closes 48 hours before the start of first-class. Registration must be accompanied by full payment.

Falmouth Art Center uses email to correspond with students for updates on scheduling, etc. Please check your email to be sure you do not miss any updates.

Scholarship information:

The Falmouth Art Center is very proud to have a scholarship fund supported by donations from members and friends. It is available for both children and adults who have a great desire to create art. Applications should be submitted to Laura Reckford, Executive Director of the Falmouth Art Center. If you have questions about our scholarship program, email us at info@falmouthart.org or call the art center at 508-540-3304.

Scholarship Information and Forms

REFUND POLICY:

Refunds will not be given within one week of the start of a class. Classes are not pro-rated, and there are no makeups for missed classes. A $25 processing fee is withheld from all refunds.

The Art Center reserves the right to cancel any class or workshop due to insufficient enrollment, in which case tuition will be fully refunded.

If Falmouth Public Schools are closed due to weather conditions, we will be closed and the missed classes will be rescheduled.

Materials

Finding Your Focus – Intermediate Painting

Supplies

These are core supplies. Please bring any others that you enjoy using.

Sketchbook Vine charcoal

Gray Scale & Value Finder

Soft pencils (2 B recommended) & kneaded eraser White hard pastel

Several small canvas panels (9×12, 10×12”); larger panels or stretched canvas (14×18, 16×20”) Ultra Fine Black Sharpie

Ruler–18” recommended

Paints–bring any additional colors that you enjoy using, but please have the following in either oil or acrylic:

White Titanium/Zinc Alizarin

Cadmium red medium or permanent red Cadmium yellow or permanent yellow Cobalt blue

Ultramarine blue Yellow ochre Burnt Siena

Chromatic Black (Gamblin) Gel Solvent

Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits (in a jar that can be capped) Brushes

A variety of sizes and shapes from #2-8 Small round #0 or #00 for signing

Recommended brands (but bring what you have): Utrecht Natural Chungking Pure Bristle Brushes, Silver Bristol Synthetics, Catalyst Polytip By Princeton, #25

Palette knife–Liquitex #14 small painting knife for mixing; smaller palette knife for direct painting

Paper towels and plastic bag for trash Apron

Instructor Bio

Linda Walker is a long-standing member of the Falmouth Art Center. Through the years, she has studied at the center with various teachers and visiting workshop artists in her favorite medium of oil painting. She has won numerous awards for her representational oil paintings and abstract pieces in oil and cold wax.

A graduate of Simmons University, her education combined liberal arts and communications at Simmons with fine arts and graphic design at the School of the Museum of Fine Art. As owner of Linda Walker Design, she produced and coordinated advertising material for clients on Cape Cod and New England. In recent years, retirement has given her time to travel and return to painting. Sketchbook and camera in hand, she finds inspiring resources everywhere that quite often become an oil painting.