Mixed Media Introduction
LEVEL: Beginners
AGE: 12 and up
$45.00 for one 2 hour class
Virtual Instruction is available. Contact the Artist.
Materials not included, please see the materials list below
Course Description
There are hundreds of art media and thousands of way to combine them into a work of art.
This introductory course presents students with several of the hundreds of techniques and concepts that are common to mixed media: What to use to support your chosen combination of media, layering and creating texture, how to appropriately combine several media into a finished piece. This class is not limited to 2-D presentations. Improving anyone’s ability to think ‘out of the box’ is a definite beneficial outcome from a mixed media class and boredom is never a factor.
Materials:
Graphite Pencils: 2B,
Sketch Book: min. 8.5x1
Kneaded eraser
Water Container
Paper Towels and or rags with bag for clean-up
Clothes protection
Acrylic matte medium.
Palette : Something with a lip works the best including lids from food containers, bring several.
Paint: Acrylic paint is recommended due relatively fast to drying time.: CAUTION some of the sets
being sold are not suitable. Get a name brand like liquitex or Golden. Avoid if possible any paint
which has ‘hue’ as part of it’s name.
Colors: Crimson Red or Cadmium Red Medium, Magenta, Cyan, Cadmium Yellow, Sap Green, Mars
Black, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Water
Soluable Oils may be added later if the student and teacher agree. NO True Oil Paint Please.
Dry media, your choice such as colored pencil, watercolor pencils, oil pastels etc: Can be shared
4 Canvas boards minimum 9 x 12”
Brushes : synthetic or made for acrylic: #10 or #12 flat , #6 or #8 flat or bright, #6 or #8 filbert, #4
or #6 round , & a liner (small barrel long hairs)Jewel It Glue
Magazines with great pictures : Can be Shared
Newspapers for various reasons : Can be Shared
Later in course: stretched canvas, hardboard panels tracing paper and additional tube colors of acrylic paint, Collection of ‘texture’ makers such as: fruit nylon bags, foil, saran wrap, bubble wrap, commercially made stamps, homemade or commercial stencils, kitchen tools, palette knives, plaster trowels etc (use your imagination), Newspaper, rice paper or other media as determined by instructor and student.
AGE: 12 and up
$45.00 for one 2 hour class
Virtual Instruction is available. Contact the Artist.
Materials not included, please see the materials list below
Course Description
There are hundreds of art media and thousands of way to combine them into a work of art.
This introductory course presents students with several of the hundreds of techniques and concepts that are common to mixed media: What to use to support your chosen combination of media, layering and creating texture, how to appropriately combine several media into a finished piece. This class is not limited to 2-D presentations. Improving anyone’s ability to think ‘out of the box’ is a definite beneficial outcome from a mixed media class and boredom is never a factor.
Materials:
Graphite Pencils: 2B,
Sketch Book: min. 8.5x1
Kneaded eraser
Water Container
Paper Towels and or rags with bag for clean-up
Clothes protection
Acrylic matte medium.
Palette : Something with a lip works the best including lids from food containers, bring several.
Paint: Acrylic paint is recommended due relatively fast to drying time.: CAUTION some of the sets
being sold are not suitable. Get a name brand like liquitex or Golden. Avoid if possible any paint
which has ‘hue’ as part of it’s name.
Colors: Crimson Red or Cadmium Red Medium, Magenta, Cyan, Cadmium Yellow, Sap Green, Mars
Black, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Water
Soluable Oils may be added later if the student and teacher agree. NO True Oil Paint Please.
Dry media, your choice such as colored pencil, watercolor pencils, oil pastels etc: Can be shared
4 Canvas boards minimum 9 x 12”
Brushes : synthetic or made for acrylic: #10 or #12 flat , #6 or #8 flat or bright, #6 or #8 filbert, #4
or #6 round , & a liner (small barrel long hairs)Jewel It Glue
Magazines with great pictures : Can be Shared
Newspapers for various reasons : Can be Shared
Later in course: stretched canvas, hardboard panels tracing paper and additional tube colors of acrylic paint, Collection of ‘texture’ makers such as: fruit nylon bags, foil, saran wrap, bubble wrap, commercially made stamps, homemade or commercial stencils, kitchen tools, palette knives, plaster trowels etc (use your imagination), Newspaper, rice paper or other media as determined by instructor and student.
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