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Get To Work - A Painting Experience (oils & acrylics)
"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."
- Chuck Close
Show up at your easel & start the process! Stretch your imagination while strengthening skills through the process of "painting". Painters will explore concepts and techniques. Various approaches to painting will be encouraged: experimentation of techniques and ideas, trial and error. You will be challenged to see and interpret in new ways.
Personal consultations in each class will cultivate your own vision and enable you to realize your personal artistic ambitions. Gain the confidence to explore the use of color, mark making, surface quality and composition, emphasizing your own pictorial language.
Explore where you are and where you wish to go. Let's Get to Work!
About the instructor: Drawing inspiration from Abstract Expressionism as well as Impressionism, Souby Boski uses gestural and abstracted forms to define her richly textured compositions. Her loosely painted canvases
are immediate responses to her visceral connection with her subjects.
MALS, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
BA, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
Find out more at: https://www.soubyboski.com/
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Supply list:
Everyone has their own favorite colors, brushes, mediums, canvases.
Any supplies you have will be fine.
Minimum required supplies:
Paints:
Primary colors of your choice
Lots of white
Painting Surfaces:
Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted
sizes
Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting
brushes (1 - 2 in.)
Palette Knife
Your favorite mediums for Oil paints
Containers: Oil Painters - Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids
for mixing medium.
Acrylic Painters - Large Jars for water
Palettes: Disposable Artist's palettes for mixing paint.
Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper
towels.
SUGGESTED MATERIALS LIST
Paints:
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Kings Blue
Cobalt Violet
Ultramarine Violet
Dioxazine Purple
Sap Green
Permanent Green
Naples Yellow 150 ml tube suggested
Permabla white (lots) 150ml tubes suggested
Ivory Black
other colors of choice
Painting Surfaces:
Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted
sizes
Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting
brushes (1 - 2 in.)
Oil Painting Mediums:
Pint - stand oil Pint - linseed oil
Brush Cleaner for Oil Paint:
Windsor Newton Brush Cleaner & Preserver
Containers: Oil Painters - Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids
for mixing medium.
Acrylic Painters - Large Jars for water
Palettes: Disposable Artist's palettes for mixing paint.
Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper
towels.
Other suggested supplies:
Palette Knife
Thin stick of charcoal
Baby Wipes
Disposable gloves
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