BEGINNING PAINTING WITH BRIAN COLBATH

BEGINNING PAINTING WITH BRIAN COLBATH

Class | This program is completed

37 Buena Vista Road West Hartford, CT 06107 United States

Upper Schoolhouse (Brick Building)

Beginners

1/9/2019-3/13/2019

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Wed

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$240.00

$220.00

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. Oil is the preferred medium, but not necessary.

  • The preferred medium is oil but students are welcomed to work in any medium.
  • 5 Canvas Boards or pre-stretched canvas 11” x 14”
  • Oil Paints –Windsor Newton, Winton is good
  • Lemon yellow Hue
  • Yellow ocher
  • Cadmium orange hue
  • Cadmium red
  • Alizarin crimson
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Cerulean blue
  • Sap Green
  • Terra Verte
  • Burnt sienna
  • Black
  • Large Titanium white
  • 4 Brushes: Two ¼ inch wide Flats; One ½ inch Flat; One small Round
  • 1 Charcoal Pencil
  • Metal Palette Knife
  • Turpenoid - small
  • Linseed Oil – small
  • Paper towels
  • 1 Disposable palette
  • 2 Empty tuna fish cans
  • These items can be purchased at any art store; in the area is Blick’s in Plainville and Jerry Artarama in West Hartford

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.