Morean Arts Center | Connecting People with Art



Acrylic Painting Design AdventureKerry Didday727-560-2609kerryart66@Each class will begin with a class critique of past and current works, so please bring in two to three pieces for critique.Beginning Materials ListA couple of canvases, any size. Always have a fresh canvas with you for a new project.Your acrylic paints (Professional Golden or Liquitex are best) The more colors the better.Your brushes, please have some large brushes 1” and largerGesso (white, black if you want)Acrylic Matte Medium (could also have some light modeling paste)Soft Brayer, any sizePallet (white paper plates, pallet paper, butcher tray)Water Jug (old plastic coffee jug is good)Rags please, (better then paper towels)As far as the first class…Please bring in an idea for a painting, I may also have a small warm up lesson with a demo, after the critique.If you are adding collage to your paintings here are some thoughts.In my class your collage items are items that you have created or manipulated yourself and not merely cut out of something and pasted down.Successful collage painting is the creative collection of a variety of collage elements, which you will need to do on your own. Here are some ideas…Old newspaper articles, old book pages that you have copied.Old PostersBlack and white photos and old family photos. Make black and white copies in different sizes.Fancy papers from art stores, rice papers.Black and white items like bicycles, etc. Any image that excites you.Any papers with textural designs.What ever you can come up with. try to keep things black and white or very little color.No color magazine photos.You may want to develop your own painted tissue paper. I will demo this so you can do it at home. The issue is that they need to dry before you can take them home and it is difficult to leave them wet in the classroom overnight.White tissue paper (available at your dollar store, no color tissue)A roll of white kitchen tall garbage bagsa spray water bottle, 1” foam brush (Home Depot ................
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