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Acrylic Pour Paintings
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Who needs brushes when you can pour acrylic paint and create unique and unpredictable works of art? Experiment with acrylic pours learning new techniques and approaches to create either stand-alone abstract paintings or backgrounds for further development. Supply List: Flood Floetrol (gallon) is available through Home Depot in the paint section (also Lowes and Menards) Paints, canvases, and pins are available through Blick’s Officemate Giant...
$160
Pen and Ink Exploration: Color and Texture (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to combine the contrast and detail of pen and ink and the vibrancy of watercolor to create bold, exciting illustrations full of color and texture! We'll start off playing around with basic texturing techniques in both watercolor and ink, and then experiment with how we can combine those techniques to create realistic textures such as skies, soil, trees, fur, glass, metal, water, and more. Demos of specific textures will be open to student...
Plein Air in the City
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Draw and paint outside the Caldwell Lily Pool, Lincoln Park Conservatory or Garfield Park Conservatory. Work in drawing mediums and or watercolors and watercolor pencils. Focus includes instruction on creating quick thumbnail sketches, composition, and color. Dress appropriately for changing weather, sun protection, and summer insects.
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Paint the Town
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Unleash your creativity and explore the world of art in an immersive experience where you can unleash your inner artist and bring your imagination to life through captivating and expressive artwork.
Painting I, Acrylic
Aartwerk Studio @ 1141 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL
Painting I, Acrylic is the introduction to the fundamentals of painting. We warmly recommend taking this course prior to any other painting course, even if your ultimate medium of choice is oil. Acrylics are fast drying, water-based paints, and will allow for quicker exploration of various approaches to painting. Because of this, technical rules and planning process are (unlike with oils) virtually nonexistent in this course. This said, the...
Landscape Painting with Water-Based Mediums
Water-based paint mediums allow artists the freedom to explore color; create layers, experiment; and make quick changes in their compositions. This Winter; explore your favorite landscapes while learning about color, gesture, form, and other elements crucial to a strong landscape painting. Gouache; watercolor, acrylic, and other water-based mediums are welcome. Instructor will provide photographic references or bring...
Lighting Effects Workshop
Bring a painting you are struggling with and Didier will help you think about light? Working in your choice of medium (oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, or pastel) Didier will show you how to create correct light. Bring a piece that you had started or start a new piece from scratch using a photo reference. Light gives a sense of dimension, mood, and life. Didier Nolet is an artist who has perfected the use of light in his art. He will share...
From Drawing to Painting (Ages 16+)
We’ll begin each class with drawing exercises, and then use those drawings as tools to painting. Learn to see deeper, express yourself both intuitively and through observation, and simply indulge in the pleasure of making. Work from still lives you create yourself, as well as reference photos. In drawing you will work with line, gesture, cross hatch and tone. The paintings will expand upon these ideas. There will be lessons for beginners, and...
Intro to Acrylic Landscape Painting
Learn the basics of acrylic painting by painting beautiful landscapes from photographs, while exploring a variety of color schemes and painting techniques. Explore color mixing, blending, highlighting, and creating visual texture. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom and register your email address prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL...
Paint Your Heart Out
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Awaken your creative insticts and collaborate with a group of kindred spirits while working in the EAC studio environment. Learn to access you uncensored voice and free yourself from limiting opinions of what is considered acceptable artmaking. In this class, students elevate painting skills by exploring paint application methods and mediums. Develop personal imagery and invent on a 2D surface. Bring acrylics, oils, watercolors or gouache. Supply...
Beginning Acrylic Painting (18yrs +)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn fundamental acrylic painting skills while practicing the art of expression, line, gesture, rhythm, tone and color. Achieve an understanding of acrylic materials and techniques as you work with both observational and imaginative painting methods, becoming familiar with acrylic painting in stylistic periods in art history and contemporary art. Required Materials This is a suggested list for class. Blick will give you a 10% discount if...
Color As an Object: Painting with Color
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Want to grow your practice with color in either oil or acrylic? We’ll begin with the basics of color theory, and progress through creating color swatches and learning about our materials, ultimately creating two paintings that demonstrate the main principles of color theory. Paintings will either be abstract or from references you bring. To expand on these foundational building blocks, we will begin to experiment with color as an object,...
Mixed Media: Flora and Landscape in Watercolor
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Mixed Media: Flora and Landscape in Watercolor and Soft Pastel Ages 16+ Mixed media using watercolors and soft (dry) pastels offers wonderful ways to construct textural, 3D looking artworks, while enjoying the relaxing, meditative, therapeutic aspects of art-making. Explore fun, traditional and experimental ways to apply these materials to achieve interesting effects. We start with a paint-along demonstration, then branch into individual choices...
Painting Vibrant Flora & Landscapes in Oils
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Render flowers and landscapes richly and beautifully in oil paints! Discover how to achieve vibrant, confident artworks that convey a sense of light, shadow, and sculptural form. Color mixing and brush stroke application will also be a major focus. You will start with a paint-along demonstration, then work on your own choice of subject. Supply List *Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colours: all 37 ml size tubes except for white, which...
Pushing The Figure: Abstraction and Beyond
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Designed for the figurative painter who wishes to challenge their way of seeing and representing the figure beyond traditional rendering. You will be exposed to the work of Nathan Oliveira, Elaine de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, and Barbara Knoll, among many other contemporary abstract figurative painters. Re-interpreting figure/ground relationships, use of color, and mark-making within the context of exploring abstraction and strong design...
Painting, Color and Design
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Get introduced to stimulating color and design methods. Learn how to progress from idea to sketch to painting to both enrich creativity and bring a sense of order to your artwork. Personalize your color palette, and work with the principles of pictorial structure to help you develop an exciting and cohesive body of work. Acrylic or oil paint, charcoal, graphite or colored pencils will be used. Bring what supplies you have to the first class.
Exploring Acrylics: From Basics to Pushing the Limits
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Acrylics are versatile paints, and this class explores a range of techniques from traditional to contemporary. From experimenting with the lines of paints to using different mediums, we will work on projects such as layering, making gel skins for abstract landscapes, subtractive painting pouring, mono printing, and more!
Watercolors: Beginning/Intermediate
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
This fun and creative approach to watercolor painting is an exciting way to get started with the medium or enhance and expand what you already may know about it. Learn traditional techniques, including wet-into-wet, glazing, coloring mixing, flat washes, graduated washed, color mixing, and more. Experiment with watercolor paints and watercolor pencils (optional) on a variety of subjects, including still-life and landscape. Please bring these items...
Painted Floorcloths (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Design your own floorcloth, an Early American art form of floor coverings. Learn various techniques: staining, stenciling, geometric design or free hand images. Display on the floor or use as a wall-hanging. Bring on the first day of class: Any sketch pad Any pencil If the student already has acrylic paint and/or brushes, it is recommended that they come to class the first day before buying any new art materials.
Watercolor Pencils
Have fun learning to produce vibrant, colorful and unique sketch/drawings using watercolor pencils. Experience a new technique each week, and engage in the sharing and discussion of your artwork with fellow students. Dry pencils/wet pencils, layering of color, creating color, shading, sketching, washing, lifting, lighting and composition will be part of our weekly class. Click here for the instructor's recommended supply list. This interactive...
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