Enrollment for Fall 2018 is closed. We hope to see you at the next series.
Painting in Oil and Watercolor
Learn to Paint in Any Medium
Fall, 2018
Classes meet in Beth Neville’s Milton studio
Classes begin with a 15 minute discussion of examples from art history
Fee: $130.00 (no supplies included)
Time: Tuesdays as noted below, noon – 2p.m. or 7-9 p.m.
Contact Beth to reserve your space.
- Session 1 September 11
- Composition and Design
- Classical: Leonardo da Vinci, vs Baroque: Peter Paul Rubens
- Session 2 September 18
- Emotions of Color and color symbolism
- El Greco and Wassily Kandinsky
- Session 3 September 25
- Circular Perspective
- Dutch Prankt painting and American, Charles Sheeler
- Session 4 October 2 (no class October 9)
- Linear Perspective
- Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael
- Session 5 October 16
- Iconography, Symbolism
- American sculptors David Smith and Claes Oldenburg; paintings of the Middle Ages and Salvadore Dali
- Session 6 October 23
- Negative and Positive Shapes, foreground vs background
- Jackson Pollack and Georgia O’Keefe
- Session 7 October 30
- Texture in Painting
- Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens and John Singer Sargent
- Session 8 November 6
- Shading, light to dark
- Early Renaissance painting, Georgia O’Keefe, others
- Session 9 November 13
- Opacity, Luminescence, Translucency
- The inherent nature of oil and watercolor paints.
- Session 10 November 20
- War and Peace
- Contemporary Resistance art; Benjamin West and Edward Hicks