Description
Unlock your creative voice in this dynamic mixed-media painting class designed for artists of all levels. Working primarily with acrylics, you’ll explore an exciting range of materials and techniques to build rich, layered, and expressive artworks. Learn how to incorporate collage elements, found objects, textured mediums, stencils, and unconventional tools to create depth, movement, and personal meaning in your pieces.
Through guided demonstrations and individual experimentation, students will:
- Develop confidence in expressive mark-making and intuitive composition
- Learn methods for integrating collage, paper, fabric, and ephemera
- Explore texture-building techniques using gels, pastes, and found materials
- Experiment with color, layering, and mixed-media storytelling
- Create finished artworks that reflect your unique style
Students are encouraged to bring their own supplies/materials and any visual references or inspiration images to the first class. This course supports curiosity, play, and artistic risk-taking in a warm and supportive studio environment—perfect for beginners exploring mixed media or experienced artists expanding their creative toolkit.
- Supplies:
- Acrylic or oil paints (any brand)
- If using oil: damar varnish and turpenoid natural brush cleaner and/ or turpentine
- If using acrylic: mat, satin or gloss medium (depending on preference)
- Canvas of any size (If you are unsure about what size, 16×20” is a good place to start)
- Paintbrushes of various sizes: (at least one flat wash brush, one medium round and one small round brush with a good point for detail work
- Painting palette (paper plates work as well)
- 4H or other Hard Pencil for sketching
- a good kneadable or white eraser for sketching
- Extra paper towels, rags/container for washing brushes
Optional:
- Extra canvas or paper for sketching/experimenting
- Gloss or satin medium varnish (for glazing paintings and adding collage elements)
- Any other fun paint colors/mediums/materials you’d like to try with painting (charcoal, paint markers, gold leaf, collage elements etc.)
- Modeling paste/Impasto medium and palette knives (for thick/impasto painting)
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