If you love animals and wish you had an amazing painting of one or twenty, this is the class for you! Your teacher will provide demos on how to use acrylic paint, techniques on painting textures like fur and whiskers, and one-on-one guidance as you paint.
Bring in a picture of an animal that you would like to paint to get started!
Required Materials:On the first day we will be painting, so come ready with supplies.
Supplies you will need- A paint box or tool box to hold supplies
- 2 containers for your water. You can use cleaned out food jars or perches containers at the art store.
- Paper pallet
- Palette knife (metal)
- Cotton rags and or paper towels
- Canvas pad
- Canvas 24”x 18” (any size you like)
- Gloss medium
- Fluid medium
- Spray bottle
- Soap to clean brushes
- Retarder
PaintBasic Color list to get you started - I recommend getting high quality grade paints (ex: Golden):
- Cadmium Red Medium Hue (37ml tube)
- Alizarin Crimson (37ml tubes)
- Cadmium Yellow Medium (37ml tubes)
- Cadmium Yellow light (37ml tubes)
- Phthalo Blue (37ml tubes)
- French Ultramarine blue (37ml tubes)
- Sap Green (37ml tubes)
- Viridian Green -sometimes just called Viridian (37ml tubes)
- Burnt Umber (37ml tubes)
- Yellow ochre (37ml tubes)
- Titanium White (will need larger 150 ml tube)