Beginning Painting
Class | Available
This class is open to beginners and intermediates. It is designed for students with little to no experience in painting, who would like to learn techniques to help develop and improve their own artistic practice. Using landscape as the starting point, students will receive individual instruction as they experiment with different styles and methods of painting. The ultimate goal of the class is for each student to understand the painting process, and then to develop his or her own personal style. The preferred medium is oil but students are welcome to work in oil or acrylic.
7 Canvas Boards or pre-stretched canvas 11” x 14” Oil Paints –Windsor Newton, Winton student grade is good Lemon yellow Hue Yellow ocher Cadmium orange or Orange hue Cadmium red Alizarin crimson Ultramarine blue Cerulean blue Sap Green Terra Verte Green Burnt sienna Raw umber Black Large Titanium white 8 Brushes: Blicks Scholastic wonder white, Synthetic bristle preferred Two ¼ inch Flats (Blicks # 12) Two small Rounds (Blicks #2) Two ½ inch Flats (Blicks #8) 1 Charcoal Pencil Palette Knife, metal,flexable with bend Turpenoid – small Blue label Linseed Oil – small Paper towels 1 Disposable palette, 12 x 16 2 Empty tuna fish cans One small jar with screw on top for transport of used turpenoid Small plastic trash bags Optional items Brush cleaner jar with spring, Silicoil Brush cleaner soap, The Masters Brush Cleaner Plastic Tupperware type container to hold pallet Blue pencil to use instead of charcoal These items can be purchased at any art store. In the area: Dick Blick in Plainville, and Jerry's Artarama in West Hartford. Blicks will give you 15% off this first-time purchase if you say you're a student of Brian Colbath's class.
Brianna Colbath
Accomplished artist working in greater Hartford for over twenty years with numerous commissions for artwork and murals. CT Watercolor Society first place award, 2003. Represented by the David James Gallery, Glastonbury, the James Stephen Gallery in Farmington, and Vanderbilt Gallery in Nantucket.