Level: all

March 25 - April 29, 2025

Tuesdays

6:30-9:30pm

6 weeks

Instructor: Denise Minnerly

Instructor's website

Fee: $220

Learn to paint by working from your favorite photos. Select a picture of a landscapes, portrait, still life, whichever image you prefer that will help you advance your painting skills.

Strengthen your painting skills by learning how to:

  • improve your drawing ability,
  • mix colors more intuitively,
  • understand color relationships (i.e. warm vs. cool)
  • use perspective, values and textures.

By using different means of paint application, we will attempt to give the impression that your paintings were painted from life.

Artists are welcome to use oils, acrylics and pastels.

This class is most appropriate for students who have some experience painting and are comfortable working independently.  This is more of a guidance and critique class than an instruction class.

Supply List:

The easiest thing to buy is a pre-made paint box with paints and brushes included. You usually can buy a box of either oils or acrylics with an assortment of brushes, mediums and palette for about $100 through either Utrech or Artist Supply Warehouse. The boxes are made of wood and usually are around 16 x 20 inches and have a space for canvas boards and a palette.

Paints

  1. Large tube Titanium white
  2. Alizarin crimson
  3. Cadmium red
  4. Cadmium yellow
  5. Yellow ochre
  6. Raw sienna
  7. Raw umber
  8. Ultramarine blue
  9. Ceruleun blue
  10. Viridian green

Accessories

Sketch pad with 2b and 3b pencil

Vine charcoal

Canvasses 12 x 16 inch or 16 x 20 inch

Paper towels

For Oils

Odorless turpentine

Medium jars with tops so you can bring turps home with you

For Acrylics

Plastic container for water

Paper palette

The best brushes I have found are Robert Simmons Signet filbert bristle brushes. They have beige handles with green tips. Buy a couple of each in varying sizes (#2, #4, #6).

About the Instructor:

Denise Minnerly  graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and Bachelor of Fine Arts in the arts. She continued her art education at the Arts Student League in New York City and Silvermine School of Art in Connecticut. She is the illustrator of three published children’s books relating to art, The Color Tree, Molly Meets Mona and Friends and Painting the Town. Her paintings and installations are displayed by public corporations and art venues throughout the Northeast. Denise has been teaching art since the mid-80’s both through her own school and as an art teacher at Greens Farms Academy.