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| Oil and Acrylic Painting Classes and Drawing Classes Conducted at The Creative Center 900 16th St. Greensboro, NC 27405 by Jack Stone Brushfire Studios |
Jack Stone, artist and founder of Brushfire Studios, has taught art in the Piedmont Triad area to all ages from 5 to 95, in settings such as community colleges, retirement communities, private classes and public school K-5. He has helped students acquire skills in all media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink wash, charcoal, pencil, collage, and clay figures. Please watch for updates on art classes with Jack Stone. |
Oil and Acrylic Painting Classes Suspended as of December 1, 2016 Learn the Language of Painting Oil and Acrylic for Teens through Adults, Beginners to Semi-Seasoned Teacher: Jack Stone This is a six-week progressive course where you will learn how to mix and manipulate your medium, build an appearance of 3D volume and space, and use selected colors and values to suggest the presence and absence of light. To begin with, we work from still life settings. Later you can use your own preferred photo references. You will develop two paintings in this course. “Painting” is a verb. This suggests that a painting be active, and created interactively. A painter needs to actively observe, all the time, and especially in the process of painting. Our eyes see a world of illuminated forms, positioned in space. Painting depicts those forms, in their light and space, on a flat surface. All subject matter and all style begins with this premise. In Nature, color is revealed by light. In painting, light is revealed by color. Having some experience with drawing provides a strong foundation of visual judgment. Drawing is to painting as melody is to music. In this class, you will learn some drawing simply by painting. A growing personal mastery with the painting medium will give your imagination a tool to express many feelings. Supply list will be furnished upon registration. Classes will resume when enrollment holds at a minimum 6 students Total each session: 15 hours. Location: The Creative Center Fee: $140.00. Please pay by check one week before first class to secure place. Register with Jack at 336-375-7568, 336-609-3675, or brushfires@bellsouth.net. Supply list and syllabus will be furnished upon registration. |
Adventures in Practical Color #2 - To be offered in 2017 Oil and Acrylic painting is an art built upon craft. I will be continually providing reliable information on the materials, techniques, principles, and some history of our art. This material will be factual, whereas the philosophical class discussions can be more subjective and free-form. If this were an architecture class, I’d provide all the current information I could about the physics of structure and materials specifications. You could take all that and build a rotating glass skyscraper or a small Tudor cottage – knowing that neither would fall down. I put a high value on self-expression channeled through best practices. What I convey will be my best recommendation at the time – others may differ – it’s always subject to question, and I hope you’ll challenge it freely as it relates to your own experience. We’ll talk about it and share ideas. Knowing some generally accepted fact-based rules will inform your judgment about if and when to break them. My view is the better we see, think, feel, and confidently paint, the more “romantic” it becomes. The tools – and everything else – are always subordinate to your personal vision, and you are your own best supporter and critic. Be authentic, and all else will follow. I'm basically a coach. For the current phase of “Adventures in Practical Color” I’m drawing from The Artist’s Guide to Selecting Colors, by Michael Wilcox, School of Color Publishing, 1997. Mr. Wilcox has done a lot of exacting research and excellent presentation design as an advocate for working artists, and I trust his integrity (Google his output). In future classes we’ll do demonstrations to bear out the truth of his suggestions (example: Mixing Cadmium Yellow Light and Cadmium Red Light will make a Cadmium Orange to match a tube version). |
