Level: all

July 1 - July 29, 2025

Tuesdays

6:30-9:30pm

5 weeks

Instructor: Lizzy DeVita

Fee: $195

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:

Lizzy De Vita is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator. First studying English and Art History with a Visual Arts Concentration at Barnard College, Lizzy later advanced to Yale for a Masters in Fine Arts. As an educator, Lizzy has lectured as a visiting critic at RISD, Cooper Union, SVA , Barnard and Yale and has taught courses at Columbia School of the Arts, SUNY Old Westbury, Yale, Cornell and others. Lizzy’s work has been exhibited internationally, most notably at the Chimney NYC, The National Museum of the Moving Image, The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum. Their writing has been published in art journals including Frieze and The Brooklyn Rail.