Painting Expressive Flowers in Acrylic w/ Shirley Sakatani - July 18-19 / 11:00-5:00: All Levels
Painting Expressive Flowers in Acrylic w/ Shirley Sakatani - July 18-19 / 11:00-5:00: All Levels
Saturday - Sunday, July 18 - 19 / 11:00-5:00pm
All Levels Welcome!
Let artist and instructor Shirley Sakatani cheerfully guide you through painting gorgeous, large-scale flowers in her signature splashy, fresh style. From tulips and peonies to dahlias and more, students will select from a variety of floral images that Shirley provides, with personalized instruction on creating vibrant color, rich texture, and strong design.
Perfect for all skill levels, this workshop explores essential techniques including color mixing, value, and composition. You’ll learn how to build luminous backgrounds while bringing bold, lifelike blooms to life.
Each student will leave 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 flowers, 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.
1. Titanium White
2. Zinc White
3. Cad Yellow (or yellow from Goldens mixing set)
4. Titan Buff
5. Carbon Black
6. Phthalo Green
7. Alizarin Crimson
8. Ultramarine blue (or the blue from the mixing set.
9. Quinicridone Magenta
10. Sap Green
11. Dioxazine Purple
Brushes: Synthetic brushes - (Zen series or equivalent)
Zen Series 43 Long Handle Flat Brush SIZE 12 Qty 2
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
Large Area Flat Brush Pack (includes a 2 and or 3 inch brush)
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)
One 18x24, 20x20 or 20x24 canvas
Pencils
Water Spray Bottle
