Painting in the City, Plein Aire
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Feb 13-Mar 27, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
on Sat
Tuition: $270.00
Level: BEG-ADV
Status: This program is completed
If you love historic architecture, urban landscapes and painting this may be a class for you. This urban adventure will examine slashing light, angular shadows, volume, depth, space, textures and more. The class is an exciting opportunity to explore traditional methods of painting in a city setting. After spending the first day in the studio, students will spend the remaining classes painting on location in various places around Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix. Students will need a portable easel set up. The instructor will give demonstrations both in oil and pastel. There will be an emphasis on composition, how light defines form, values, drawing and other fundamental principles of art. We’ll also talk a lot about seeing and how to see the amazing beauty that is before our eyes. You get all this and more when you go into the city and paint.
- Class meets Feb. 13, 20, Mar., 13, 20, 27, 2010
Instructor -- Allen Garns
Allen Garns has been creating art for corporations and publishers for over 25 years. He received a BFA from Art Center College of Design where he studied with Dan McCaw and John Asaro and has done post graduate work at the International School of Art in Italy. In 2008, Allen won cash awards at the Pastel Society of America and the Salon International. He currently shows his work at Scottsdale Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona. Please visit www.allengarns.com.
- Portable easel
- Camera*
- View finder (like a 8x10 board with a 4x5 window cut out)*
- Hat with brim
- A piece of neutral gray, heavy paper, about 3 inch square, with about a 1/4 inch hole punched out of the middle*
- A small mirror*
- Vine charcoal
- If working in: OIL- your normal palette of colors- if you don’t know what to have, a simple palette as follows will do: Cadmium Yellow Medium; Cadmium red light; Aliziron Crimson; Ultramarine Blue; Yellow Ochre; Raw Umber; White (large tube)
- Palette knife
- Oderless solvent
- Portable solvent holder/container
- Paper towels
- Brushes : a few # 2’s and a few #4’s - flats; a couple #1’s round
- If working in PASTEL- I recommend at least a 60 color set. You can get a Rembrandt 60 piece half stick set at some of the local art stores or at some of the mail order places like Daniel Smith or Dick Blick If you have a paper or surface or paper you like, bring that. I recommend Canson Mi Tientes Paper. Get a middle value color like “Bisque” or “Sand”.Cut the pieces to around 8x10 or 9x12
- a solid board to tape your paper to.
- Masking tape
- Workable fixative
- Kneaded eraser
- *not absolutely nessecary but highly recommended