- Teacher: Lendy Hensley
- Oil Painting Kit sold separately
- Course Length: 8 weeks
- Start Date: Thursday, starting October 8
- Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Beginning Painting 2: Building a Painting
Oil or Acrylic
A painting is built through looking, responding, and revising. As the whole surface develops, shapes shift, colors are repainted, spaces open and close, and each change creates the next decision.
In this course, students learn how to build paintings over time. We’ll begin with still life and interior setups, using thumbnails, value studies, and color notes to find a direction before beginning the larger paintings. Students will keep several paintings in progress, return to them after they dry, repaint large areas, build layers, and revise composition, color, form, space, and focus.
The emphasis is on the whole painting rather than finishing one object at a time. Students will practice simplifying observation into large relationships, mixing chromatic shadows and reflected color, developing depth without formulaic rendering, and deciding what to strengthen, quiet, remove, or leave open.
By the end of the course, students will have a repeatable process for starting, developing, revising, and resolving a painting.
Prerequisite: SAL’s Beginning Painting 1
This course builds directly on SAL’s specific methods: organizing the whole surface through large value and color relationships, controlling paint consistency, mixing colors before placing them, and working from observation without painting object by object or relying on formulaic rendering. Because these methods are assumed from the first day, painting courses taken elsewhere do not substitute for SAL’s Beginning Painting 1.
Materials
Bring your oil or acrylic Beginning Painting 1 kit, replenished as needed. The large canvas pad included in the kit will be used for color studies, shadow and reflection studies, and additional painting starts.
Also bring:
Two stretched canvases or prepared panels, approximately 12 × 16 to 16 × 20 inches.
One additional stretched canvas or prepared panel, approximately 11 × 14 to 16 × 20 inches, for the painting developed from sketches later in the course.
