In this series of four classes with all materials provided, you will learn all about painting with acrylics. On Thursday afternoons from April 16 through May 7, we'll explore blending, value, composition, and color relationships. Versatile teaching artist David Repyak is your guide at Northwind Art School at Fort Worden State Park.
Acrylic paint may be used in transparent washes or in striking textures, with the addition of hard modeling paste and gel mediums. We will explore both. You'll learn about and develop the skills to represent foreground, midground, and background planes through painting simple objects from a still life. Through this practice, you'll nurture your core skills to grow creative confidence.
Session 1 includes a sketching warmup, painting of a still life, choosing analogous colored papers and working with a three-color palette.
Session 2 begins with a directional Energy/flow warmup and progresses to creating a 10-stroke painting and painting your choice of a still-life object and using a four-color palette.
Session 3 starts with a high-contrast warmup, creating a line drawing with a generous shadow and areas of contrast, boldly directing the eye's attention. We'll also discuss and explore a variety of dynamic, asymmetrical compositions. We'll paint a coffee cup or an apple — your choice — with four unique compositions and up to four paint colors.
Session 4 explores tools: palette knives, forks, combs, a variety of scrapers. Then we practice with texture, applying several different textural additive mediums, including impasto cold wax, pumice, matte or gloss varnishes, and soft clear gels. Creating from photographs, we'll challenge ourselves to represent subjects with strong textures: the bark of a tree, a winter landscape that has melted to a spring thaw, or the play of light on deep-ocean waves.All materials and supplies are provided.