PT458 Open Painting Night With Melissa Miller Nece

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Thursdays, 6 Week Class
All levels welcome!

Improve your skills in technique, composition and concept. Individualized instruction to develop your own style of painting in acrylics or oils. (Colored pencil and other media accepted with instructor’s permission). Choose personal subject matter, explore composition and color theory, solve painting problems. Drawing experience recommended.

Ages 17 and up.

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Acrylic or Oil (traditional or water-soluable) paints

professional-quality, brand name supplies may cost more, but are worth it.

Suggested colors (Note there is NO BLACK OR PAYNES GRAY LISTED!):

Titanium white

Quinacridone red or violet or napthol crimson or Permanent Alizarine

Cadmium red medium or light

Cadmium yellow medium or light

Yellow ochre or raw sienna or yellow oxide

Ultramarine blue

Thalo (phthalocyanine) blue or Prussian blue

Burnt sienna

Burnt umber

Phthalo green or viridian and or sap or Hookers green

Optional – Hansa yellow

Painting surface: Prestreched canvases or canvas or other panels

Try at least 11” x 14” – smaller is not easier! – 18” x 24” is even better

Brushes: Large and small sizes – natural bristle (for oil) or synthetic bristle (for acrylic) Flats, brights or filberts (#10, 8, 6, 4, and 1 or 2). One or two small round brushes with a good point. (Suggestion: Princeton 6300 “Dakota” for acrylics, also work for oils)

Palettes: Disposable palette pads are fine. A piece of Masonite can also be used for a long time. Or china, glass, plexiglass. A tight-sealing plastic palette or container (like flat tubberware) is good for storing and transporting wet paint. (Palettes with mixing wells are for watercolors)

Solvent and mediums:

For oils (Necessary unless you’re using watersoluble oils): Oderless mineral spirits (such as Gamsol, Utrecht NOOD, Turpenoid) for thinning and cleanup.

Linseed oil and or Liquin or Galkyd or similar glazing/quick-drying medium

For Acrylics (Optional): Acrylic gloss medium, retarding medium, barious specialty mediums for textures or effects. Refillable spray bottle for water.

Solvent containers: Large jars, coffee cans, plastic tubs. Mineral spirits must be in a tightly sealable container for transport.

Drawing tools: Pencils are OK, but soft vine charcoal is better, watercolor pencils are good. Kneaded eraser or other type of eraser.

Rags or paper towels

Also useful: Masking tape, palette knife, old toothbrushes, ruler or yardstick, clip to hold photo references, brush soap.

DFAC provides easels, taborets (carts to hold supplies) and stools. No need to bring your own.

Shop locally at Blick Art Materials (West shore, Tampa) and Michaels with coupons. Online: dickblick.com, jerrysartarama.com.

For studio classes, bring your own choice of reference (not other artists’ work) for subject matter, or expect to choose from photos or still life setups. Or plan to develop abstract concepts. All styles encouraged!

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