Creating Your Own Style for Beginners

This is a fun course for beginning students. Through a combination of assignments and independent study, you will figure out what the heck your style might be. Your painting level doesn't matter, as long as you have a fun attitude and are willing to grow as a painter.

Learning Objectives:
Students will advance their skills in color, position, size, shape, line, texture and density control in painting.

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  Rob Gratiot

Paint

Cadmium red, Alizarin crimson

Titanium white (large tube)

Burnt sienna, Burnt umber (large tube), Yellow ochre

Ultramarine blue (large tube), Cerulean blue

Permanent green

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Canvas

Canvas boards or pre-stretched canvas at least 12” x 18”

For those who want to create their own stretched canvasses, bring:
- Stretcher bars (min. 12” x 18”)
- 10-oz raw canvas fabric
- Craftsman 1/4 Light Duty Staples *974424 and staple gun
- Gesso and gesso brush (something like a cheap house-painting-style brush)

Brushes

1 or 2 round, series 4235 R #2 or smaller (Grumbacher-Bristlette)

1 or 2 flat 1/2” - 3/4” (Professional Bristle)

Silicoil – a metal coil you put inside a can use to clean your brushes

Other materials

Paper palette

Mid-size palette knife

Odorless paint thinner, container, rags

Pencil & notebook

Water spray bottle for acrylic painters 

Other materials and tools may be discussed in class.