Acrylic Jump Start with Odin Smith on ZOOM

Day: Fridays (6 weeks) Classes-Jan 14 – Feb 18

Time: 10am – 12pm

Price: Members $145/Non-Members $175

Have fun with a series of exercises designed to increase creativity and help students add emotional content to their acrylic work. There should be no limits to your imagination. Be prepared to do different painting exercises that will stretch your imagination and thought process to raise you to new levels of achievement. If you have been feeling like you need a jump start to get back to painting, this is the class for you! Have your supplies ready so we can jump in right away, starting with a critique of any work you need advice about before next steps.

This class is being offered as a collaboration between our Museum School and the Cape Cod Art Center.

You will be sent a zoom link from the Cape Cod Art Center prior to the first class.

MATERIALS

Odin’s Palette colors: (it may be hard to get these exact colors for a while, so please make do with colors that are close if you can’t find these.)

Acrylic paint colors:

• Yellow
• Orange
• Red
• Burnt Sienna
• Purple
• Ultra marine Blue
• Phthalo Blue
• Phthalo Green
• WHITE
• (Quinacridone Magenta is a nice extra!)

Find out why acrylic is one of the hottest trends in making art. Become familiar with the techniques to best use this exciting medium. Learn to use stronger values, better composition, and more dynamic color to give your work strength, depth, and interest. Beginners to intermediates will learn to use this expressive medium to bring light and life to their paintings, and most importantly, bring a sense of self to their work.

Other Materials

• Primed Canvas or primed Masonite Board
• Medium Grade Acrylic or Oil Paint Brushes, # 2, #6, #8, #10, #12 to start
• *(A.C. Moore and Michaels have good inexpensive brushes. Do not buy the lowest quality brushes. They fall apart in your painting.)
• Palette- I use an inexpensive “Glad” plastic covered casserole container, approximately 9” X 12” (Grocery store) with an 8” X 11” “Miracle Sponge” (A.C. Moore)
• Palette Paper or Parchment Paper (Grocery store) cut to size

Misc. Supplies:

• Scissors
• Pencil
• Paper Towels
• Container for water
• Several of your own photos (no magazine cuttings!) to use for reference, or objects for still life
• The object here is to put together good, mid-grade supplies at a minimal cost.

Instructor Website: 

http://www.odinksmith.com/