Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Creative Concepts - Artist of the Month and art class info

Come check out Creative Concepts gallery where I'm the featured artist of the month! Check out the banner! The gallery is located just south of Sequiota Park and the address is 3830-B South Lone Pine Ave in Springfield, MO. All of my Alice in Wonderland paintings are being shown there and a bunch more.
I'm also going to be teaching acrylic and drawing courses there starting the end of the month!
Here are the details for the courses:

Beginner Acrylic Course - 4wk   $80
session 1 - Mondays, March 29th @ 6 pm - 8 pm thru April 12th
session 2 - Fridays, April 2nd 6pm - 8pm thru April 16th
1st class - Go over materials and uses, primary colors and color wheel, blending color (30 min - hour). Second part of class will be beginning to paint a still life painting and working with student to help decide the layout, color, and give tips.
2nd class - Discuss layout, light and shadow (30 min). Work on finishing 1st painting
3rd class - Discuss art history, different styles (impressionism, pointilism, realism, etc... (30 min). Start second still life painting
4th class - Discuss Brightness & Contrast, texture, varnish, and framing (30 min). Finish 2nd painting and discuss progress between 2 paintings and what the student has accomplished.

Beginner Drawing Course - 4wk   $80
session 1 - Thursdays, April 1st - 6pm - 8pm thru April 22nd
1st class - Go over materials and uses, shading, light and shadow (30 min - hour). Second part of class will be beginning to sketch different simple objects and work on light and shading. Will give out simple drawing assignment for next class
2nd class - Discuss brightness & contrast, hatching/crosshatching, texture, layout, go over assignment(30 min-hour). Work on drawing of still life. Give out a drawing assignments for next class
3rd class - Discuss art history, different styles (contour drawing, pointilism, go over assignment(30 min) Do a contour drawing, work on drawing from a still life. Give out a drawing assignments for next class
4th class - Discuss Portrait and landscape drawing then go over assignment(30 min). Sketch and draw from model or if nice draw outside
Main focus of classes are to have fun, learn and have a sense of accomplishment!



1 comment:

Unknown said...

Sounds like a great place to be!