Level: all

March 7 - March 28, 2023

Tuesdsays

12:30 - 2:30pm

4 weeks

Instructor: Souby Boski

Instructor's website

Fee: $170

“Painting Creatively from Photographs”  
Oil & Acrylic Class
 4 week online Zoom class on Tuesdays, 12:30 – 2:30pm,
This four week class is an opportunity for students to paint freely and with guidance from the Instructor.  Souby Boski has a magical way of inspiring great work from her students.  She emphasizes experimentation, trial and error, and encourages students to entertain a variety of ideas and painting techniques.  Students in this class will stretch their imaginations while strengthening their painting skills.  Everyone will be challenged to see and interpret in new ways.
Personal consultations in each class will cultivate students’ vision. Students will gain the confidence to explore the use of color, mark making, surface quality and composition, emphasizing their own pictorial language.
Explore where you are and where you wish to go. Please have reference material (photos) for inspiration.  Oil and acrylic painters welcome. Some knowledge of painting required.

Note: this class will be taught online using Zoom.  Please download and become familiar with the app prior to the start of class.  A zoom invite will be emailed each week. 

Minimum Required Supplies

  • Paints (oil or acrylic paints): Primary colors of your choice; Lots of white.  Suggestions:  Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson , Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Kings Blue, Cobalt Violet, Ultramarine Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Sap Green, Permanent Green, Naples Yellow (150 ml tube suggested), Permabla white (150ml tubes suggested), other colors of choice
  • Painting Surfaces: Several primed canvases, boards or gessoed heavy paper of assorted sizes
  • Brushes: Artists brushes of different sizes. And ordinary house painting brushes (1 – 2 in.)
  • Palette Knives
  • Your favorite mediums for Oil and Acrylic paints
  • Containers: Oil Painters – Plastic peanut butter type jars with tight lids for mixing medium. Acrylic Painters – Large Jars for water
  • Palettes: Disposable Artist’s palettes for mixing paint.
  • Rags: Clean cotton cloth rags and an old terry cloth towel or paper towels.
  • Thin stick of charcoal, Baby Wipes, Disposable gloves
  • Reference photos

Instructor Bio – SOUBY BOSKI

Drawing inspiration from Abstract Expressionism as well as Impressionism, Souby Boski uses gestural and abstracted forms to define her richly textured compositions. Her loosely painted canvases are immediate responses to her visceral connection with her subjects.

Souby has her MALS degree from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and her BA from Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Souby Boski has been an Art teacher in the CT public schools and Adjunct Professor of Art at Naugatuck Valley Community College. Since 2004, she has been teaching painting classes and workshops at area art education venues in CT, MA and FL.  She has studied painting with nationally recognized artists and teachers, Eric Aho, Ira Barkoff, Lois Dodd and Ruth Miller.

EXHIBITION HISTORY “Works on Paper Invitational” Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City Behnke Doherty Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA“Small Works Invitational”, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY “Sphere of Influence: Ira Barkoff & the Washington Art Association”, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT“Winter Wonders”, Gallery 19, Essex, CT“PAINT: A National Juried Exhibition”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RILiz Afif Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA“Spectrum 2013”, New Canaan, CT– 1st prize paintingA.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NYBehnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Minor Memorial Gallery, Roxbury, CT Higgins Gallery, Western Connecticut State University Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Lenox Invitational Exhibit, Lenox MA White Silo Gallery, Sherman CT