Details
Duration:
6-Week Course
Date:
Tues, March 5-April 9, 2024
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Instructor:
Will McGaul
Level:
All Levels
Capacity:
9
Age:
15+
Languages:
Taught in English
Cost:
$245
(20% off for members)
Location:
Oolite Arts
924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Register:
On Website
Contact:
Melissa Gabriel
[email protected]
Information
This 6-week Painting with Acrylic, Oil or Watercolor course is ideal for beginners and intermediate student-artists who want to learn from scratch or improve their painting skills through a step-by-step process. Classes will cover color combination, form, texture, composition, and the use of brushes and other painting tools.
Beginners will focus on understanding and mixing colors, color combination, proper use of brushes, and composition. They will paint a landscape, a still life, and/or a portrait using painting reproductions as a visual reference to compare color mixing, precise strokes with the right amount of paint in the brush, and convey exact movement with spontaneity and decisiveness.
Advanced students will work on expanding visual vocabulary and technical skills to improve their work. Each student will be encouraged to express their style and explore painting techniques through various conventional and unconventional methods of composition. Individual instruction, demonstrations, and exercises will assist each artist in developing a unique body of work.
Students will be evaluated during each class while they are painting with individual instruction and demonstrations based on how they’re performing the exercises. Every time they finish a painting, there is an evaluation and final critique to raise awareness of all learned techniques and approaches, proper execution, and areas to improve and modify to improve each painting.
Materials are not included, you’ll receive the materials list upon registration.
Refund & Cancellation Policy: Attendees can request refunds up to 24 hours before their class start date. Classes must meet a minimum enrollment number to run.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Will McGaul has been a professional art instructor since 2011. Will has exhibited in California and Florida. He is a member of the Miami Watercolor Society and the Gold Coast Watercolor Society. Will loves to share his passion for drawing and painting in his classes and workshops, and at the same time, simplifying the process and making it fun.
Materials
If you wish to work with Acrylics:
- Acrylic paints 4 oz or 8 oz: Ultramarine blue, emerald green or phthalo green, titanium white, cadmium red light, cadmium yellow light, black, orange cadmium, alizarin crimson red, dioxizine violet, phthalo blue.
- 3 palette knives (metal or plastic) large, medium, and small.
- 2 sets of 4 sizes Bristle brushes.
- Disposable paper palette for acrylics ( 12″ x 16″)
- 2HB pencils, one eraser, one sharpener
- 3 Stretched canvas(18” x 24” or larger)
- (2) 8oz Empty cans for water
- Rags or 1 paper towel roll
If you wish to work with Oils:
- Oil Paint colors: Ultramarine blue, emerald green, titanium white, cadmium red light, cadmium yellow light, black, orange cadmium, alizarin crimson red, dioxizine violet, phthalo blue
- One Set of White, Flat, Bristle Brushes
- 3 palette knives (metal or plastic) large, medium and small.
- Multi-palette/ disposable paper palette 12” x 16” pad.
- 3 stretched canvases (18” x 24” or larger).
- Odorless turpentine or mineral spirits 1 quart.
- Linseed oil, 8 oz.
- Rags or 1 roll of paper towels
- Empty cans 1 big and 1 small-metal or glass
- 2HB pencils, one eraser, one sharpener
If you wish to work with Watercolor
