wayne art center

Let’s warm up our creative painting skills for the coming season of outdoor painting.

 

Fred will do some paint sketch demos to illustrate some ways of how to start a painting, define some compositional ideas, and show a variety of ways to apply and move paint on the canvas.

 

We will paint from Life; a visually complex still life composition will be our subject. The idea is to edit- simplify and define what you like. A skill required for landscape painting.

 

The learning exercise is to develop a series of paint sketches or starts and experiment. There are many ways to start a painting, we will look at a few of those ways. Sometimes different subjects require different start approaches. By doing a series of paint sketches we test different compositional structures, color combinations, and mark making techniques. Finding a way that works for you can offer confidence and lead to creating a successful bold painting.