Head drawing and portraits November 1st-22nd Tuesday afternoons 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Pencil and pastels Learn the foundations for head drawing and working on a portrait. Each students will do a self portrait or portraits from a photograph. the course will cover the beginning drawing techniques and learn to capture character. $60.00 Plus materials Fee of $20.00 or bring your own materials.

Intermediate to experienced) This class will teach students techniques for creating skies, trees, water, rocks, and mountains. Students will learn how to separate visual elements in a landscape to show depth and better represent foreground, mid-ground, and background imagery. Time will be spent discussing color combinations and composition, and demonstrations will focus on creating value studies, practicing various painting techniques, and manipulating design elements in your landscapes. Group critiques and individual coaching will be employed. Please have all of your materials ready for the first class meeting. This class is designed for students with previous watercolor painting experience. A basic understanding of watercolor skills will be assumed. Class is limited to 8 students. *See list of supplies

Supplies:
10 round synthetic brush, or natural if advanced painter #14 round synthetic brush, or natural if advanced painter Clean container for water, ½” and 1’ Flat brushes , #6 round
Palette tray
Masking fluid
Arches 140 lb cold press paper, blocks OK (cotton rag; NOT Strathmore wood pulp paper) Notebook
Pencil
Kneaded eraser
X-Acto knife, pocket knife, or edge of credit card to scratch out lines on paper
Natural sponge
Household sponge
Saran wrap
Paper towels
Kleenex
Kosher salt
Rubber cement pick-up
Spray bottle
Glue Stick
Scissors
Fine Tip Sharpie
Sketchbook
Photos you’d like to paint
Class/Workshop

Tube Paints:
Alizarin crimson Cadmium yellow pale Ultramarine blue Cerulean blue
Sepia
Burnt sienna
Ochre
Cadmium red
Indigo
Light Red
Indian Red
Winsor Blue
Aureolin
Rose Madder Genuine Cobalt blue
Viridian
Perylene Green

If you like to draw patterns or doodle, you can learn to “Zentangle.” As the name implies, it’s a Zen-like way of creating images through repetitive patterns and shapes.With Zentangles, every mark you make is a deliberate mark- drawn deliberately and consciously.  Similarly, we are always making “marks” in our lives- in the form of thoughts, words, deeds, etc.  Zen teaches us to do everything consciously and deliberately- not absent-mindedly or without thinking. In this Zentangle course we will be studying symbols. February 2 & 9th 4:30 to 6:30 pm

Elaine Cimino is fine-art painter, and has 20 years college-level teaching experience in drawing, painting and art history. She is an advocate for Visual Literacy. She has Developed Art Curicullum for Children and has worked in the public school through New Mexico as an Artist-in-Residence.

Materials Provided

Learn Watercolor and expand your creativity! Take art classes and learn skills that will be with you for a life-time. This art class covers color theory and painting techniques in watercolors. You learn about papers and various drawing techniques. Learn the color wheel and elements of color theory.
 Beginners welcomed.
 If you are experienced or have taken previous classes please bring your art work to class to show me what you would like to work on for this session. We will explore Realism and abstraction and use experimental techniques.

We will explore Wet in wet techniques that includes any application of paint or water to an area of the painting that is already wet with either paint or water. In general, wet in wet is one of the most distinctive features of watercolor painting and the technique that produces a striking painterly effect.

The essential idea is to wet the entire sheet of paper, laid flat, until the surface no longer wicks up water but lets it sit on the surface, then to plunge in with a large brush saturated with paint. This is normally done to define the large areas of the painting with irregularly defined color, which is then sharpened and refined with more controlled painting as the paper (and preceding paint) dries.

Wet in wet actually comprises a variety of specific painting effects, each produced through different procedures. Among the most common and characteristic:

• Backruns (also called blossoms, blooms, oozles, watermarks, backwashes or runbacks). Because the hydrophilic and closely spaced cellulose fibers of the paper provide traction for capillary action, water and wet paint have a strong tendency to migrate from wetter to drier surfaces of the painting.
• Paint Diffusion. This produces a characteristic feathery, delicate border around the color area, which can be enhanced or partially shaped by tilting the paper surface before the water dries, shaping the diffusion with surface water flow.
• Pouring Color. Some artists pour large quantities of slightly diluted paint onto separate areas of the painting surface, then by using a brush, spray bottle of water and/or judicious tilting of the painting support, cause the wet areas to gently merge and mix. (The technique was actually invented, and used for similar effect, by J.M.W. Turner.)
• Dropping In Color. In this technique a color area is first precisely defined with diluted paint or clear water, then more concentrated paint is dropped into it by touching the wet area with a brush charged with paint.
• Salt Texture. Grains of coarse salt, sprinkled into moist paint, produce small, snowflake like imperfections in the color.
• Cling-film technique. The use of kitchen cling-film to create special effects in watercolor painting. A wash of watercolor is applied to paper and cling-film is laid over the wet pigment.

Artist using watercolor

Dry Brush techniquesthat include Scrumbling

Color Mixing we will explore minimal palettes  and  split palettes of warm and cool relationships.  

A good link to read up on these techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watercolor_painting

Where: Highland Senior Center

Times: 10 am – 12 pm
Days: Saturday (4 classes)
Dates: May 3th -24th, 2014
Cost: $65.00 (under $20 per class)
Other: Materials List available Online
Register: Online registration Payment can be made online on the Elaine’s Website through Paypal that accepts credit cards or by check at the Senior Center Front Desk made Payable to Elaine Cimino Studios, LLC or the first day of class. Please register online so we know your intention to take the class.

This class picks up from the mixed media lessons and explores in depth resist techniques using watercolor, acrylics and chalk and oil pastels.  Discover how amazing artist’s worldwide are using this technique as a basis to apply ideas to other mediums.