Paint Like Monet: American Impressionism
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Connecticut is rich in the tradition of American Impressionism. Learn to paint in this style and create your own masterpiece with oil or acrylic paint. Students will learn techniques used by the Impressionists, how they captured light on canvas and transforming the color of light into a painting.
A basic set of acrylic or oil paints, at least 3 different sizes of brushes (from 2 to 12), palette, a prepared canvas or board (approx. 24” X 18” or larger), B2 and B3 pencil and eraser. Those using oil paints should bring turpentine.
Zbigniew Grzyb
Academy of Fine Art, Crakow, Poland. 2001 winner of Pollock-Krasner award, and 2001 individual artist grant from the GHAC. Exhibits widely, one person show at New Britain Museum of American Art, Real Art Ways and recent one person exhibit of work at National Museum in Poland.