Kay Wirz 2-Day Workshop
COST:
LGAA Members $160
Non-Members $180
2-Day Workshop with Kay Wirz
Paint Like You!
Focusing on Painting with Individuality and Expression
DATE/TIME
November 5 and 6 (Wed & Thur)
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Questions?
Contact: Lourdes Doonan Phone/Text: 817-807-2885
Or Ldoonan17@gmail.com
Each day’s assignments will be concerned with exploring ideas and discovering ways of shifting out of old predictable patterns. You will learn to fine tune your focus of artistic expression. You will “perk up” your approach to each new painting! There will be opportunities for planning and developing a fresh new approach to subject matter and composition through the use of planned exercises. The demos, handouts, and exercises are all designed to help develop your individual style with confidence, and to inspire your present and future work.
Day 1: Getting Started
- Demos and assignment of exercises on composition and editing subject matter
- We will explore a process of evaluating subject matter using shapes to express form and content
- We will start 2 paintings
- There will be evaluations and help/critiques of individual work on-going throughout the day
Day 2: Development
- Work with color palette selection and using acrylic paint in a direct, flat, and opaque manner.
- Completion of 2 paintings
- Throughout both days will be opportunities to evaluate, change, rearrange and edit what is in front of you
- There will be time set aside at the end of each day for the group to gather together so that we can critique at least one painting from each person
SUPPLY LIST
PAINT
Classes will use Acrylic Paint. If you are already using acrylics, bring what you have.
If you are starting out using acrylic, I suggest:
- Hobby Lobby: Master’s Touch – 4oz tubes – Yellow Medium, Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Black, White
- OR: Liquitex Basics – 4oz tubes – Cadmium Yellow Med., Cadmium Red Med, Phylo Blue,Titanium White, and Ivory Black
- Other colors I use (optional): Hooker’s Green, Raw Umber, Yellow Oxide, Neutral Gray 5
BRUSHES:
- 1 ½ “ flat (Purdy Brand at Lowe’s ).
- Any other brushes you prefer but not any that have been used with oil paint!
- Don’t use any expensive watercolor brushes with acrylic, it ruins them.
- Buy from Hobby Lobby: The Fine Touch set # 1731686 all purpose Golden Toklon is a pretty good starter set.
SURFACES: Regular 3/4 inch deep canvas or Gallery Wrap canvas.
- One canvas 11 x 14 inches
- One 16 x 20 inches
- AND one 20 x 20 inches (if you want to try a square format)
OTHER:
- Acrylic Matt Medium
- Palette and Palette Knife,
- Spray Bottle, Water Container, Paper Towels, Ruler, Scissors, Masking tape,
- Drawing pencils HB or #2, Kneaded Eraser
- Sketch Book/ Drawing paper
- Tracing Paper – if you have it – I will bring some if you don’t
**** 3 to 4 drawings, sketches, pictures, photos, compositions of Subject Matter that you have been wanting to try or that inspire you!
