Level: all
May 13 - June 10, 2025
Tuesdays
6:30-9:30pm
5 weeks
Instructor: Lizzy DeVita
Instructor's website
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
- 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:
Lizzy DeVita Lizzy De Vita is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator. Their research focuses on human interdependency through sculpture in the expanded field. Their work explores how relationships shape identity.