Beginning Painting

Beginning Painting

Class | Registration closed 4/5/2024

87 Mountain Road West Hartford, CT 06107 United States

Upstairs

Beginners

4/12/2024-6/14/2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$260.00

$240.00

Learn about painting in a fun and supportive environment. A different basic painting concept will be briefly introduced and discussed for general information each week. Students are encouraged to bring their own images and/or ideas to work from. There will be plenty of individual guidance and help for each student.

    • Materials list;
      Paints;
      Artist grade are better than student grade, but either are fine.
      A large tube of Titanium White 
      Smaller tubes of the following;
      Thalo Blue
      Ultramarine Blue
      Quinacridone Magenta 
      Cadmium Red Medium 
      Cadmium Yellow Medium
      Cadmium Lemon Yellow 
      Palette paper
      Palette knife 
      Synthetic brushes for Acrylic paints and Bristle brushes for Oil paints
      1 Large Flat brush about 1 inch wide 

      1 Medium Flat brush about 1/2 inch wide
      1 Medium Round brush, #4 or #5
      1 Small Round brush, #2
      A glass jar for water or Gamsol
      Gamsol for Oil paints 
      Canvases from sizes 11x14" to 16x20"
      Plus any other supplies the students may already have.
    Instructor(s)

Mike Berlinski has been drawing and painting since childhood, primarily with oil paints in the plein air tradition, focusing on the Farmington Valley, Cape Cod, and Cape Ann. MA.

He has taught and exhibited in Connecticut and beyond. In addition to teaching, Berlinski paints commissions for those with a special scene they love.