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12/2024 All Levels Acrylic with Nancy Reed Jones
December 3, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$105.00 – $120.00
December 3, 10, 17th
Tuesdays
1-3pm
For beginners, we will cover all the beginner fundamentals of painting including supplies, mixing color, how to use brushes, creating a good composition, how to pick a subject, identifying a focal point etc. For more advanced students, there will be one on one time with the instructor to go over your piece and suggested guidance.
Students will bring their own supplies. Beginners are welcome to sign up for the +Materials options to have their supplies provided for the first class to get to know the supplies before you go out and buy your own.
Oil painters are welcome to attend!
Supply List For Acrylic Class:
- Paints; Grumbacher or Windsor and Newton tube acrylics.
- Basic Colors: Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light.
- Brushes: 1 inch flat, 1/2 inch flat, small filbert ( rounded tip) small round and #0 or # 1 liner brush
- 11×14 or 12 x 16 canvas, a couple. We will likely work on a piece multiple sessions.
- Wet palette with palette paper and sponge that comes with it. (Sta-wet or similar)
- Paper towels
- Water container (We do have these in the green cabinet in the bathroom if you need one)
Nancy Reed Jones is an award winning artist ( Champion of the Arts award from the Orange County Arts Council) as well as several other awards. She studied oil painting at the Huntington Arts League on Long Island. Nancy had her own mural business for many years and has painted murals in one of the Vanderbilt homes on Long Island. Nancy painted murals for the cancer patients in hospitals on Long Island where they were used for guided imagery to take away the patients pain.
She came to live in the Hudson Valley in 2004 and joined the Wallkill River School of Art where she now teaches acrylic workshops and plein air painting. She describes her painting style as Romantic Impressionism.
