Community Education

Summer Watercolor

5 Week Course

DATES: Every Saturday, June 23 – July 28, 2018 (No Class Saturday, July 7)

TIME: 1-4 PM

STUDIO: MC2

COST: $85 - Due on or before Wednesday, June 20

AGES: 16 and above, all levels

MINIMUM: 7 / Maximum: 18

LOCATION: 2222 Laguna Canyon Road Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Studio 2

 

INSTRUCTOR: Nina Ulett is a graduate from Laguna College of Art and Design. Having studied in Italy as well as California, she has participated in multiple exhibitions and received numerous awards and honors for her work.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

This course aims to familiarize students with the mediums of gouache and watercolor. By the end of the course, students should be able to create paintings that demonstrate an understanding of composition, line, value, form, color and edge in these mediums, as well as be able to incorporate specific exercises, techniques and terminology into their own work. Experimentation with types of surfaces and paint application will be encouraged.

Students who prefer to work in gouache may use the pigments listed for watercolor – see Suggested Materials List (below).

 

SUGGESTED MATERIALS LIST:

Watercolor (Winsor & Newton, Gamblin, Holbein or brands of similar quality):

Pigments:

• Aureolin or Cadmium Yellow
• Cadmium Orange
• Cadmium Red
• Alizarin Crimson
• Sap Green
• Burnt Umber
• Raw Umber
• Ulltramarine Blue
• Ivory Black

Optional:

• Dioxazine Purple
• Yellow Ochre
• Burnt Sienna

 

Gouache (Winsor & Newton, Gamblin, Holbein or brands of similar quality):

 

Pigments:

• Permanent White

 

Brushes:

 

Flats:

• 1.5 inch, ¾ inch, size 4 or size ⅜

 

Rounds:

• size 5, size 4, size 1 

 

 

 

 

Summer Painting Explorations

5 Week Course

DATES: Every Saturday, June 23 – July 28, 2018 (No Class Saturday, July 7)

TIME: 9 AM-12 PM

STUDIO: MC 2

COST: $85 – due on or before Wednesday, June 20

AGES: 16 and above, all levels

MINIMUM: 7 / Maximum: 18

LOCATION: 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd. Laguna Beach, CA 92651

 

INSTRUCTOR :Miguel Gonzalez a recent alumn of Laguna College of Art and Design, is a nationally-recognized painter by the Art Renewal Center, exhibits throughout the United States, and is an instructor at LCAD and at The Kline Academy in Los Angeles.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Our classically trained faculty teaches painting techniques and compositions, placing emphases on developing foundational skills and on pursuing a personal approach to painting from still life and from photographic references. Students receive individualized instruction and are encouraged to work at their own pace. In-class demonstrations will be done using oil paints, but students may use the painting mediums of their choice. Students furnish their own supplies and may bring what they typically use to class.

For questions please contact: Community Education at communityed@lcad.edu

 

SUGGESTED MATERIALS LIST:

(you are welcome to bring and work with what you have)

Solvent/Medium 

• Gamsol
• Linseed Oil or Stand Oil

 

Brushes

•   Natural Filbert Bristles: #2, #4, #6, #8, #10

 

Oil Paint List 

•  Titanium or Cremnitz White
•   Ivory Black
•   Cadmium Yellow
•   Yellow Ochre
•   Cadmium Red
•   Burnt Sienna
•   Burnt Umber
•   Venetian Red
•   Permanent Alizarin Crimson
•   Ultramarine Blue

 

Acrylic Paint Canvas Primer (students will be shown how to correctly prime a canvas on first day of class) – 8 oz. jar of either:

• Toned Grey;
• Burnt Sienna; or
• Manufacturer Golden makes a neutral Grey N5 that is perfect

 

Canvas – 1 per class

• Canvas Panel or Stretched Primed Canvas sizes 11×14 or 12×16.

 

Miscellaneous

• Palette (paper palette, wood palette or Glass palette w/ mid tone beneath)
• Palette knife
• Soft paper towels (Viva)
• Containers for solvent, oils & mediums (must have leak-proof lids)
• Paint keeper or box