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September 19 - December 05, 2024

Painting: Old Masters Portraiture / Level 2+

BBAC Campus • 1516 South Cranbrook Road BirminghamMI  48009 Organized by BBAC

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Painting: Old Masters Portraiture / Level 2+

Instructor: Donald Cronkhite


Learn techniques the Old Masters used to create beautiful portraits with realistic hair and flesh tones. Using respected masterpieces by Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Franz Hals as references, you will explore layering techniques, brush strokes, and color mixing to give your portraits a polished, timeless quality and provide a foundation for painting from photographs of your own.
Thursdays, September 19 – December 5No class October 17 & November 287:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 10 sessions$315 Members, $355 Guests, $8 Materials Fee
Painting: Old Masters Landscape Level 2+Instructor: Donald Cronkhite
Materials List
FIRST DAY:Sketchbook 9 x 10 or largerDrawing pencils - 2b or HBWhite eraserBrown gum eraser
On the first day of class, we will only be using these materials listed above,and we will discuss the rest of the materials list that day.

REMAINDER OF TERM:
Paint clothing:Comfortable clothing that you don't mind ruining2-3 sealing glass jars or metal containers with lids (mason jars are great for this)Palette cups / a couple extra lids from jars / small glass or metal jarsPaint rags / old t-shirts work!
Brushes:3-4 hog hair bristle variety of sizes, mostly filberts & rounds #2, 4, #6 #81-2 synthetic small round brushes
Palette:-can use small glass palette-palette paper pad is easier for transportation
Palette knives:1-2 palette knives for mixing color
Mediums:Odorless Mineral Spirits - 16 ozGamblin Solvent-Free Fluid 8.5 ozOptional: linseed oil
Oil paint:small tubes of the preferred brand: Utrecht, Winsor Newton and Gamblin.Artist grade, not student grade.
colors:cadmium red medium (can use hues, but non hues are prefered)cadmium orange mediumcadmium yellow mediumalizarin crimsonsap greenburnt siennaultramarine bluephthalo blueLarge tube of Titanium White
optional colors:Indian Yellowpermanent rosecadmium red lightviridian greengreen gold
Canvas:3-5 pre primed stretched canvases, gallery wrapped, 11 x 14 or larger
Brush cleaner - fels naptha bar soap - laundry aisle at Meijer

Course Medium

Painting

Location

Studio 4 at BBAC Campus

Instructor

Donald Cronkhite

When

September 19 - December 05, 2024

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Thursday

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Age and Gender

Ages 18-255 · Co-Ed

Location

BBAC Campus

1516 South Cranbrook Road BirminghamMI  48009

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