Capturing Vibrant Dahlias in Acrylic May 24-25 w/ Shirley Sakatani : All Levels
Capturing Vibrant Dahlias in Acrylic May 24-25 w/ Shirley Sakatani : All Levels
Saturday - Sunday, May 24-25 / 11:00-5:00pm
All Levels Welcome!
Let artist and instructor Shirley Sakatani cheerfully walk you through how to paint delightful dahlias in her splashy, fresh style. Great for all levels of students, this workshop will cover color mixing, value, and composition. You'll learn how to paint colorful, light filled backgrounds, while having fun, painting large life-like flowers, built layer upon layer. Each student will go home with a finished painting to cherish.
More Information is below.
Location: Cole Art Studio, located on the lower level of Cole Gallery. 107 5th Ave S, Edmonds WA 98020
The workshop includes step by step demos and instruction, laying the groundwork to help each student create a successful painting of sunflowers, bright, exploding and full of movement! .
Supply List - Most supplies are available at Art Spot in downtown Edmonds for 10% off to all students!
Fluid Acrylic Paints:
If you are continuing to learn acrylics, I suggest you buy larger bottles.
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Mixing Colors, Set of 10, 30 ml
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Diarylide Yellow, 1 oz bottle |
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, 1 oz bottle
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Pyrrole Orange, 1 oz bottle
Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics - Titanium White, 2 oz Tube Qty 1
Brushes: Synthetic brushes - (Zen series or equivalent)
Zen Series 43 Long Handle Flat Brush SIZE 12 Qty 2
Zen™ Series 43 Long Handle Flat Brush
Zen Series 43 Long Handle Round Brush SIZE 2 Qty 2
Zen Series 93 (or any) Liner brush for signing or fine detail
Princeton™ Select™ Artiste Series 3750 Short Handle Script Liner Brush
Craft Brushes: 1 pack of three
Gold Taklon Large Area Flat Brush Pack by Craft Smart®
Palette knife: Metal with scooped neck easiest
Instead of pallets I use plastic plates: TWO x 2 Pack Cooking Concepts 10 Inch White Microwaveable (or more) They are cheap and I use them as covers to palette (I got them at Dollar Tree or Amazon)
Stainless Steel scrubber pads (kitchen sponge) to clean plates
Apron or paint clothes for painting
Stretched white canvas gesso primed (either gallery wrapped deep or regular)
18x24 or 20x24 canvas
Pencils
Water Spray Bottle
This is an example of a full 36x48 painting. In class Shirley will guide her students through capturing a much simpler piece.
