- Tuesday
- July 5, 2022
- 6 Session
- 10:00 am
- — 12:00 pm
Emily Rose Hirtle
Learn the fundamentals and application of painting in soft pastel and gouache. Discover essential techniques while practicing painting from life or from your photo references. Learn about different surfaces such as vellum, mylar, and toned papers, brands of soft pastel and gouache. Historical and contemporary painters who worked in soft pastel and gouache. Each week you will receive pre-recorded demos on how to apply soft pastel, gouache and at its different consistencies. You may alternate between each medium or choose to focus on one. We will have group critiques and I provide individual critiques through the duration of this class. At the end of our class you will receive a Padlet PDF featuring your work and your peer’s work. Comments on your work given by me and your peers who have voluntarily commented also.
This class is taught on the Zoom.
For more information, contact The Art League School at 703-683-2323.
This kit of supplies is available for purchase here, and can be shipped for a fee, or picked up curbside. The kit includes the underlined items. Please indicate in the notes section of your order if you would like to schedule curbside pick-up, or if you need your kit mailed to you. Please contact us at store@theartleague.org if you would like to purchase a selection of items different than the kit.
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Soft Pastel and Gouache Painting, Emily Hirtle
For Soft Pastel
Drawing board
Soft pastels by Sennelier, and Nu Pastel
Cream masking tape
Soft vine charcoal
Suggested papers: Ingres, Colourfix, and Mi-tientes.
Chamois
Tortillions
Hard pink or white eraser
Kneaded eraser
Your own reference photographs
For Gouache:
Arches cold-pressed watercolor pad, or hot-pressed watercolor pad, or toned Hahnemuehle, Ingres paper and choose the color you would prefer to work on
Graphite pencil
Kneaded eraser
Winsor and Newton or Holbein Gouache colors:
Ivory Black
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Terra Verte
White
Round plastic palette for ink and a large rectangular palette for watercolor and gouache
Masking tape (Artist tape)
Two cups for water
Paper towel or Cloth
Watercolor Brushes: rounds, filberts, and flats in variety of sizes
The kit includes the underlined items.
Cost is $289.05 plus sales tax of $17.34 for a Total = $ 306.39
Please contact us at store@theartleague.org if you would like to purchase a selection of items different than the kit.
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