Session 2 | Pre-College: Observational Painting: Grades 9-12

HS 98 :

1 credit – in person

Dates: July 20 – 31
Times: 2 – 5 PM
Meetings: 10
Days: Monday – Friday
Instructor: Evan Kitson

$425.00

15 in stock

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Description

This pre-college acrylic painting course is designed for students in grades 9–12 who want to build strong foundational painting skills. Through structured in-class studio projects, students of this course will develop essential techniques used in academic and professional art settings. Instruction covers surface preparation, color mixing and palette development, brushwork and paint application, and convincingly rendering form, space, and texture. Students will work primarily from direct observation, completing focused exercises and longer studies that strengthen technical confidence and visual decision-making. By the end of the course, students will have produced a small cohesive body of work and gained skills that prepare them for portfolio reviews, more advanced art classes, and future study in the visual arts.

This is a credit-bearing class and grades will be given. Please check the supply list tab for materials needed to complete this class.

This course must meet minimum enrollment by July 13 in order to run. Register today!

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Acrylic Paints: Winsor & Newton makes good quality, inexpensive acrylic paints. Blick Studio is also worth looking into.
Colors: Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue, Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Permanent Rose (Quinacridone), Cadmium Red, Titanium White, Ivory Black
You’ll also need a tube of Neutral Gray Acrylic Paint (value 5) to prepare your
surfaces. Blick, Liquitex Soft Body, and Liquitex Basics are good variations.
Acrylic Gesso: I really like Blick’s white acrylic gesso. We’ll use this to prepare our surfaces.
Brushes: A variety of brush sizes and shapes for acrylic paints. I like having at least one medium sized version of each brush shape: Round, Flat, Filbert, and Fan
Metal Palette Knife: for mixing. I recommend metal over plastic.
Palette Surface: plexiglass (can be found at the hardware store) or plastic artist palettes are best, a pad of palette paper is fine, and I prefer the gray paper over the white ones. If you’re using plexiglass, I like painting one side with the gray acrylic paint to tone it. Please avoid watercolor palettes, paper plates, tin foil, or other non-palette
surfaces.
Two 16×20” canvases
One ~11×14” – 12×18” Watercolor pad (140lb/300gsm). I like the Canson XL Watercolor pad.
A wooden drafting board or a panel surface larger than the watercolor paper sheets to tape them to for support.
One roll of pH Neutral Artist Tape (1/2” width preferred)
Water Jar: a medium sized cup or container that you can have water in next to you while you paint.
A roll of Blue “Shop” Paper Towels/ “glass” towels (available at the hardware store)