Welcome!
The simple and universal beauty of a tree meets the decorative grandeur of stained glass in this three week acrylic painting course with Dar Hosta James. Come along for a creative journey that gives you the recipe and the ingredients for your own fantastic, magical forest. You will begin with simple shapes and lines and continue with doodling, negative space, dots and more dots, and embellishment that truly proves more IS more!
We will put lots of emphasis on color harmony and pretty details. By the end of this course, you will have four gorgeous canvas paintings in various sizes and dimensions.
This is a course for ALL skill and artistic levels and you will surprise yourself with how you’ll take this recipe and turn it into your own expression of trees, so come along for this new and fun artistic adventure!
Dar
Supplies
Here are the supplies needed for this class! If you don’t have the exact materials, you can probably substitute many items with things you already have on hand… email Dar with any questions! [email protected].
- Two 12″x12″ canvases, 1.5″ deep
- One short and wide canvas, 1.5″ deep (I’m using 12″x24″, but 8″x24″ and 10″x30″ are fine, too!)
- One 24″x24″ canvas, 1.5″ deep
- Brushes: Any size of larger, flat brush just for laying down area of paint, medium Fan, variety of Round from 0-8, and Angled brushes in 1/8”, 1/4”
- Variety of sponges like make-up, kitchen, sponge brush, etc.
- Any other interesting mark making stuff, found objects, etc.
- 10-15 sheets of scrap/copy paper cut down into squares
- Several small pieces of white matboard, card stock, stiff paper, etc. for optional color sample
- Old magazines/catalogs or decorative scrap book/origami paper in squares
- Markers, including black
- Pencil
- Piece of white chalk or watercolor pencil
- Black gesso
- Matte medium
- Calligraphy pen/nib (I use a simple set by Speedball)
- Acrylic Ink (Suggested colors: black, white, gold; I use FW, a brand of ink made by Daler Rowney, Liquitex also makes acrylic inks. “Acrylic” is the important criteria in the ink.)
- Nail Art Dot Tools (Optional, found on Amazon)
- Spatter screen (Optional, find at cheapjoes.com)
- Fineliner Applicator (Optional! This works with the High Flow Acrylics, 18 gauge has a larger hole, 20 gauge has a smaller hole; I prefer smaller 20 gauge;; find on Amazon)
Paint
Note: These are the GOLDEN colors I am using for the class. Please know that you can use any brand/colors that you like or have. 😀 Where it does not designate Fluid or Heavy Body, either is fine. A Heavy Body white and off white are necessary.
With each lesson I will list all the GOLDEN colors I am using in the video. Please know that you can use any brand/colors that you like or have. The following colors are “must haves” for me. 🙂 Note that a Heavy Body white and “off white” are necessary for our first two paintings.
- Red (Pyrrole Dark, or ANY red, like Cadmium, Napthol, etc.)
- Cadmium Orange Deep
- Quin. Magenta
- Permanent Violet Dark (or ANY “dark” purple/violet)
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cobalt Blue
- Hooker Green
- Light Ultramarine (this color goes by different names but is commonly known as “periwinkle”)
- Titanium White (both Fluid and Heavy Body*)
- Titan Buff (Fluid)
- Carbon Black (Fluid)
- Iridescent Bright Gold Fine (Fluid)
- “Off White/Buff” (Heavy Body*, I am using Matisse brand, “Australian Ghost Gum”)
- Interference (any color, but also optional!)
- GOLDEN High Flow Acrylic (Optional for use with the Fineliner), Titanium White and/or Iridescent Gold
Nuts & Bolts
Here’s how this online class works:
- As a self-study class, so you have access to all of the lessons right now and can work the lessons on your own timetable.
- You have indefinite access to this class.
- You can (optionally) share your work with Dar via email ([email protected]) or via the class Facebook page. Since this is now a self-study class, you will need to let Diane know if you upload work, as she doesn’t check the Facebook page as regularly. Click this link and ask to join the group!
- Class fee is good for participants living in a single household.
Questions?
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