May 7 - June 25, 2024
Tuesdays
6:30pm - 9:30pm
8 weeks
Instructor: Frank Bruckmann
Instructor's website
Fee: $300
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 for all levels of learning, from the beginner to the more advanced. Individual attention is given to each student.
Note that Eric March will be substituting for Frank on June 11 and 18.
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
- Large tube Titanium white
- Alizarin crimson
- Cadmium red
- Cadmium yellow
- Yellow ochre
- Raw sienna
- Raw umber
- Ultramarine blue
- Ceruleun blue
- 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:
Frank Bruckmann began his studies at the DuCret School of Art in New Jersey and continued with classes at the Art Students League in New York City. In Paris, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and spent nearly a decade in France and Spain, copying the masters in great museums and painting landscapes in the cities and countryside. Now a resident of New Haven, Bruckmann has found endless subject matter for landscapes in New England but periodically packs his easel and travels farther and wider in his VW. Frank’s work is held in a number of private and commercial collections throughout the US and abroad. He has had a number of one man shows in New Haven and Monhegan Island.
