This is a 3-Day Series.  Students will meet 3 times to complete Part 1.
Please note: Classes will meet 3 times within the same week for Summer Break.
Students will learn the principles underlying how to paint and use colors to communicate visually. This class will familiarize beginners with brush techniques and mixing techniques as well as terminologies that they will be using in more advanced series. Students will acquire a good understanding of color, value, composition and brushwork and the importance of the interdependent relationship of these principles in creating appealing artwork in all mediums. This course starts at the ground and builds every student up from there, to make sure they have a solid foundation to grow from.

Day 1: Tools, Surfaces & Medium Properties
Students will experiment with their respective mediums to see how they behave with several basic painting techniques, including dry brush, loaded brush, wet on wet, blending, etc. They will do several swatch exercises in each of the techniques and then proceed to paint fruits using their chosen mediums.

Day 2: Color Theory & Harmony
Students will be introduced to the basics of color theory by identifying primary, secondary, tertiary, warm and cool colors.  They will also study color harmonies (or color wheel combinations) including complimentary, analogues, triadic colors, etc. and understand the principles when to apply each for the desired visual effect. Students will paint three mini landscapes, using each of the terms or color harmonies described throughout the lesson. The focus is to recognize all important color theory terms and understand the value of picking the best possible palette to represent their artwork.

Day 3: Value & Composition (Space & Perspective)
Students will integrate their knowledge about the tools and medium characteristics, the respective techniques to use for any given situation and color theory in a final project.  They will combine all learned principles by using colors of different values, shades, tints, and brightness levels to create depth. Students will paint a bird by applying color and brush stroke effects to create highlights and shadows, giving an illusion of depth, texture, and volume. The focus is to get students to understand how value (light interaction) can affect colors and how utilizing color palette in harmony with value can create not only depth but also aesthetic appeal (i.e. how to avoid making shadows muddy while achieving the value dark enough).
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