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CPT 021-1-S24 | Fundamentals of Painting

Course Overview:

Learn the fundamental skills needed to translate what you see and feel into the physical object of a painting. Through rigorous observation of dynamic still lifes, you will become sensitive to shifts in hue, value, saturation, form, material, etc. Presentations will be provided to introduce artists, movements, and past student examples to enrich insights and investigations. Students will participate in peer critique, a chance to use vocabulary and develop strength in their artistic voice. This course provides students with the building blocks for developing a practice in painting comparable to a BFA foundations-level painting course.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course you will

• Understand basic color theory
• Have stronger compositions
• Understand painting techniques and processes

Who is this course for?

This course is for the true beginner who is interested in learning the process of painting.

6/4-7/30 (no class 6/18) 8 sessions 6:00-9:00pm

Tuition: $260 + $25 studio fee

CEUs: 2.4

380 Cumberland Room 102

Faculty:

Deanna Jacome was born in NH, and has spent her creative life in Salem, MA, Burlington, VT, and now Freeport, ME. She creates slow-sustainable artwork in the woods of Maine, inside of her tiny house studio, which she built in collaboration with her fiance. She received her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Book Arts and Art Education in 2015 and her MFA in Studio Fine Arts from Maine College of Art & Design. She is an interdisciplinary painter working with sustainably sourced paints and textiles. Her Ecuadorian heritage is at the root of her pursuit of fiber arts where she pursues natural dyeing, embroidery, and weaving as a way to intertwine her identity of place from both New England and South America. Her life as an artist and arts educator fuels her passion of activating the innate creativity within others and love of the process of making. She has taught children on the spectrum, run workshops across artistic disciplines, co-ran a nature art preschool, and was a Teacher’s Assistant in the Painting and Textiles & Fashion departments at MECA&D. 

Supplies:

• Pencil
• Acrylic paints: red, yellow, blue, white, and black (suggested: Liquitex Basics, 4 oz., Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow, Cobalt Blue or Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Ivory or Mars Black)
• 2 - 4 paint brushes of various size (suitable for acrylic, can be from a pack)
• 1” paint brush (suitable for acrylic)
• Mixed-media sketchbook XL Canson®
• Mixed-Media pad 9” x 12” or 11”x 14”)
• Paint water cup (preferably glass with a lid- can be an old food jar)
• Small rag
• Painting palette
• Roll of painters tape
• A 16”-20”or 18”-24” canvas