Course Highlights
  • Choose appropriate materials, surfaces, and tools for acrylic painting and know the compositional make-up of acrylics.
  • Mix and apply values of color to create the illusion of light and form in a painting.
  • Paint directly, mixing and applying colors as they are observed.
  • Mix colors and apply color theory to paintings.
  • Mix mediums to alter the behavior of acrylic paint.
  • Develop an underpainting made entirely of neutral grays in order to create a full range of value.
  • Apply translucent glazes of color to develop the colors within a scene.
  • Paint with various painting knives to create "impasto" effects.
  • Create Abstract and Non-Objective paintings.
Curriculum

1 Topic
Introduction and Materials

2 Topics
Light and Form
Stretching Canvas

3 Topics
Direct Painting Part One
Direct Painting Part Two (A)
Direct Painting Part Two (B)

4 Topics
Color Theory and Mixing Part One
Color Theory and Mixing Part Two
Color Theory in Action Part One
Color Theory in Action Part Two

1 Topic
Acrylic Mediums

4 Topics
Underpainting Part One (A)
Underpainting Part One (B)
Underpainting Part Two (A)
Underpainting Part Two (B)

2 Topics
Glazing Part One
Glazing Part Two

1 Topic
Knife Painting

1 Topic
Abstraction / Non-objective Painting

1 Topic
Conclusion

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