Painting for Beginners
10 Week Class | Available
In this course, we will break down the painting process into stages so that they can be accomplished and personalized, as students continue their journey with paint. Students will follow observational techniques to create descriptive images from photographs, and use their own heads as reference along with working from (still) life. We will go over the basics of creating a pictorial image using lights and darks, as well as colour. Exercises build and expand the painters’ toolbox of approaches to help demystify the painting process. Short demonstrations will be given to help construct paintings, and we will discuss painters working representationally (non-abstract) with slides and short critiques of class work.
This course is intended for beginners in acrylic and water-based oil painters. Some experience with observational drawing will be helpful.
Note: There will be no class on Tuesday, March 11th, class will end on Tuesday, April 1st.
Base Tuition: $480 + Material Fee: $10 = $490 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Observational painting
- Basics understanding of colour and value
- Constructing and image in paint
- Basic paint handling
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.