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Painting Seascapes with Acrylic

Monday, June 6-27, 2022
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Details

Duration:
Four Week Course

Date:
Monday, June 6-27, 2022
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Instructor:
Pablo Contrisciani

Level:
All Levels

Age:
15+

Languages:
Taught in English and Spanish

Cost:
$100
(Members have a 20% discount with code)

Location:
Online

Register:
On Website

Contact:
Melissa Gabriel
[email protected]

Information

This is an ideal online course for beginners and intermediate students who want to improve their painting skills. Through a step-by-step process, students will learn how to Paint a Seascape with acrylic and allow students to explore painting techniques and a method of composition to represent the scene and its different elements following the samples of the reference images.
Students will use two Seascapes paintings one by Claude Monet and another by Vincent Van Gogh as visual references. Group and Individual instruction, demonstration, and exercises will be provided.
This four-week course will cover preliminary drawing, color combination, paint application, light, tones, values, form, texture, composition, and the use of brushes.
The class virtually meets once a week for four consecutive weeks.

CLASSES BREAKDOWN

Class 1 and 3

  • Presentation of seascapes images in art history. (First Class)
  • Drawing on canvas using an image as a visual reference.
  • Color Theory and practice and palette setup.
  • Start painting the background.
  • Class 2 and 4

  • Completion of the painting.
  • Color application and comparison.
  • Paint application and brushstrokes.
  • Light and shadows.
  • Sense of depth in a seascape painting.
  • Sense of unity and balance of the composition and final details.
  • About the Instructor
    Pablo Contrisciani earned his Masters in Fine Arts, Painting at Facultad de Bellas Artes, National University of La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. His work forms part of public and corporate collections from USA, Latin America and Europe. Pablo is an Oolite Arts alumnus (1998-2006 and 2010-2015) and works as a painting instructor since 1998.

    Materials

    You will need the following materials for this workshop:

  • Acrylic paints: ultramarine blue, emerald green, titanium white, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow light, black, orange cadmium, crimson red, dioxizine violet, phthalo blue.
  • 3 palette knives (metal or plastic) medium, small and large
  • One set of four sizes Bristle brushes: 1/8” flat bristle brush, 1/2” flat bristle brush, 3/4” flat bristle brush, 1” flat bristle brush.
  • 16” x 19” acrylic disposable paper palette
  • 2HB pencils, one eraser, one sharpener
  • 2 Stretched canvas or canvas board 18” x 24″
  • (2) 8oz Empty cans for water
  • Rags or paper towels
  • Oolite Arts Sponsor Logos Grey