Materials:
Below is a list of recommended materials. This includes the ‘Amazon Affiliate’ program, and you support The Art Sherpa when using it. It is linked here to make things convienient and easy for you.
Paint Colors
Liquitex Soft Body Black
Golden Cadmium Yellow, Medium Shade
Golden Mars Black
Golden Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
Golden Quinacridone Magenta
Golden Titanium White
Neon/florescent Pink
Neon/florescent white ( glow in the dark can exchange if you can not find white)
Neon/florescent blue
Neon/florescent green
Neon/florescent orange
Neon/florescent yellow
Neon/florescent violet (optional)
16×20 canvas, pre-gessoed
Paint Brushes
Black Pearl® Bright Size 4
Black Pearl® Bright Size 6
Black Pearl® Round Size 4
Black Pearl Filbert Size 2
Black Pearl Filbert Size 4
Sterling Studio Bright Size 2
Sterling Studio Round Size 1
4002 Series Bright Long Handle Size 10 – Goldilocks™ Brush
4006 Series Angle Long Handle Size ½
1900 Bristlon®
2100 Cambridge™
2500 Ruby Satin®
6400 Black Pearl™
Have fun Live with The Art Sherpa during this BEGINNER HOW TO PAINT art lesson in acrylic art tutorial. This is an easy, fun, social art lesson for canvas. We talk about art and other fun subjects. With help and guidance, anyone can paint. You can paint!
Want to see something? Just comment! Tell me what you’d like to paint, or what you want to know about art. This is YOUR art journey. Open your heart and access your art.
HEART MAIL:
Art Sherpa 204
9490 fm 1960 RD W
suite 200
Humble tx 77338
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Beginner Step by step Real time Painting of Desert sunset inspired by Kingman AZ. Saguaro’s in silhouette as a dusk turns on fire!! Actually inspired by sunsets I saw on my trip!! A special perk is we will use Neons to add a pop of magic. Full Image : http://bit.ly/1RxdK2F Beginners learn to paint full acrylic art lesson. Below are a list of materials. The links go through our Amazon Affiliate program, and you support The Art Sherpa when using them. These are link to make thing easy and convenient. *** Acrylic Paint Colors ***
*** Assorted Brushes for Acrylic Painting *** Medium flick resistance, synthetic or natural fiber. Short Bristles and Short handle. Acrylic handle over wood and Synthetic fiber over natural . www.thebrushguys.com Use The Code ” theartsherpa” for 5% off Simply Simmons long handle (there short on this line) Bright #10 #6 #4 Filbert #10 #6 Detail round #6 – medium- #4 and fine #2 ½ angle shader I generally paint with Simply Simmons , Creative Mark, Ebony Splendor and Pro Stroke brushes. I also use some Windsor Newton and Ruby Satin Silver My favorite Brush is Goldilocks or Simply Simmons bright #10 Extra Firm Filament 255341010
*** Other Supplies *** Paper towels Water cup Chalk, a few colors Ruler Sharpie Table easel Delicious snack or beverage A smile!
Have fun Live with The Art Sherpa during this BEGINNER HOW TO PAINT art lesson in acrylic art tutorial. This is an easy, fun, social art lesson for canvas. We talk about art and other fun subjects. With help and guidance, anyone can paint. You can paint!
Want to see something? Just comment! Tell me what you’d like to paint, or what you want to know about art. This is YOUR art journey. Open your heart and access your art.
Acrylics are a fun and enjoyable painting medium. I prefer ‘Creative Mark’ brushes, and I use Liquitex heavy body acrylic paint, Matisse Derivan, and golden colors.
I love teaching people to paint in a supportive environment. Everyone deserves to have art in their lives and feel the joy that art can bring! Follow along and share your art journey with me! I look forward to hearing from you.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Line, Color, Composition
The power of Georgia O’Keeffe’s artwork derives from her mastery of essential elements of art making: line, color, and composition. To understand the richness of Georgia O’Keeffe’s artistic practice, this exhibition reveals her disciplined drawing practice, dramatic color palette, and innovative sense for composition through paintings and drawings that span her career. The presentation offers fresh insight into the importance of line in her work—from preliminary sketches and drawings, to the fluid, seemingly effortless outlines that define regions of her canvas and divide her compositions into dynamic zones of color, be it the curve of a flower petal, the horizon of a landscape, or the contour of an abstract form. A brilliant colorist, O’Keeffe created strong, vibrant works with colors that glow with energy and vitality. Holding all of this together in harmonious balance is her sense for composition. Time and time again in her work, we see an artist pushing the boundaries, in some cases quite literally with lines and forms racing off the edge of the canvas, yet somehow she always manages to maintain a sense of stability and produce works that are visually engaging. O’Keeffe’s facility with a variety of media—pastel, charcoal, watercolor, and oil—combined with her sense for line, color, and composition to produce deceptively simple works. Her confidence in handling these elements makes her style of painting look effortless. Our intent with this exhibition is not to eliminate the mystery of her artwork, but rather to deepen the appreciation of her skill and unique talents as one of the most technically proficient and artistically innovative artists of the twentieth century.
O’Keeffe’s drawing practice was the lens for each new experience and her sketches form a journal of her explorations. The artist was steadfast in her commitment to the discipline of drawing, which she adopted early in her career. O’Keeffe developed a personal vocabulary of abstract forms and composition strategies as she acquired the principles taught by Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow encouraged an intellectual and imaginative process of making art grounded in personal expression and harmonious design. In 1962, O’Keeffe remembered his influence. “… I had a technique for handling oil and watercolor easily; Dow gave me something to do with it.” She recorded her keen visual perceptions in sketchbooks for sixty years. The drawings demonstrate her process of distilling the natural world into abstract compositions of lines that form shapes and contours while eliminating distracting details, a process of identifying the very essence of a given location or subject. This practice allowed her to achieve a composition that can be simultaneously abstract and true to the natural world.
For example, included are the exhibition are two preparatory drawings and their related painting, Blue, Black and Grey of 1960, which reveal her sensitivity to abstract forms in the natural world and her debt to Dow, five decades after studying his methods. In the first drawing, firm clear lines trace the contour of the abstract shapes she observed in the landscape. The second drawing shows variations of shade and massing, reflecting the Japanese design concept of “notan” (“dark, light”), which Dow taught as an essential element, along with line and color, in producing harmonious pictures. O’Keeffe’s drawings demonstrate how she transformed her observations into abstract forms and masses. After making preparatory drawings, O’Keeffe outlined her compositions on canvas with charcoal before painting and applying color. Infrared photographs of her artwork show that her painted surfaces are quite faithful to the drawings underneath. She painted with conviction and the finished work of art seldom varies from her initial concept. This constancy in her artistic practice is evident throughout her life and is the subject of this exhibition.
