This class was featured on San Diego Entertainer Magazine!
Art 101: GETTING STARTED WITH ART
|
Explore various types of painting mediums: watercolor, acrylics, and oil. If you are brand new to art making and don’t know where to start, this is the class for you!
Learn the topics you see listed on each session and complete a simple painting —Wine & Canvas style. NOTE: This is not a painting class. Art 101 is material-based, meaning students will learn about art products, engage in discussion on how to use them, and experiment/play with the presented products in hands-on exercises. Each class covers different topics so new students may jump into session! |
Who should take this class...
|
• those who have never picked up a brush
• those who want to “try before you buy” art supplies |
• those who want to start making art but feels intimidated
• those who love paint parties and wants to explore more! |
March: BRUSHES & Color
|
Learn about brushes, brushwork, color, mixing, and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style.
Week 1: different kinds of brushes, care of brushes, acrylic and oil brushwork techniques (broken color, scumbling, impasto, wet into wet, smooth blending, tonking, sgraffito, etc.) and watercolor brushwork techniques (wet into wet, wet into dry, washes, etc.) Week 2: what is color, value, hue, intensity, mixing colors; start a watercolor San Diego skyline painting Week 3: finish the watercolor San Diego skyline painting All supplies are included! Meets for 3 weeks March 9th, 16th, and 30th (no class on 23rd) Saturdays from 10am-12pm Student parking available in back lot Be sure to pick up a Student Parking Pass at the front desk when you arrive. |
April: PAINTS & MEDIUMS
|
Learn about paints, mediums, additives for better flow or slower dry time, various thinners offers, and safe solvents you can add into paint and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style.
Week 1: how paint is made, reading labels, care of paints, different kinds of paints available including interference paints, non-toxic alternatives Week 2: how you can extend paint, slow or speed up dry times, glazing, varnishing; start an oil abstract painting Week 3: finish the oil abstract painting All supplies are included! Meets first 3 weeks of the month April 6th, 13th, and 20th Saturdays from 10am-12pm Student parking available in back lot Be sure to pick up a Student Parking Pass at the front desk when you arrive. |
May: TEXTURES & NEW TOOLS
|
Learn about the top 10 gels and pastes by GOLDEN, new tools of the trade, and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style.
Week 1: mark making tools, paint applicator tools, texture making tools, tools from around your home Week 2: working with mediums, gels and pastes (glass bead, clear granular, fiber paste, soft gel, extra heavy gel, light molding paste, fluid matte medium, gloss medium, matte medium); start an acrylic texture painting Week 3: finish the acrylic texture painting All supplies are included! Meets first 3 weeks of the month May 4th, 11th, and 18th Saturdays from 10am-12pm Student parking available in back lot Be sure to pick up a Student Parking Pass at the front desk when you arrive. |
About the instructor
|
Denise Cerro
There are so many wonderful avenues to take in art...and I love the exploration. That's what keeps me excited about this lovely journey... it's ever changing, aways adventurous and completely delightful. In my early life I had long careers in display and visual presentation, along with another as a faux finish and mural artist in many homes for private clients as well as Interior Designers. My mural work eventually led me into painting on canvas and my merchandising eye for putting things together stirred my interests towards mixed media and assemblage art. I wake up most mornings ready to create. I greet my studio with something in mind and start the days adventure from there. Instructor Website |
