Contemporary Painting

• Teacher: Charity Baker
• Class Length: 8 sessions
• Class Days: Weekly on Tuesdays, beginning April 21 May 5
• Time: 6:00PM – 9:00PM (PDT)

CONTEMPORARY PAINTING

This online Contemporary Painting course invites students to discover and strengthen their unique artistic voices, exploring what makes an image truly powerful. Through a focused curriculum of life study, art history, color theory, and diverse painting techniques, you’ll learn to balance technical skill with personal expression.

Discussions and practice are rooted in the foundations of representational art while embracing the innovations and concepts of contemporary practice. By bridging classical methods with modern approaches, students gain a broad, inspiring perspective—cultivating a dynamic, versatile, and thoughtful approach to contemporary painting.

MATERIALS:

PAINT
Artist’s choice: Oil or acrylic paints

Recommended economical brands in oil are: Gamblin, M.Graham Co., RGH Paints, Utrecht.

1. titanium white
2. titanium buff
3. cad yellow light
4. cad red light
5. yellow ochre
6. magenta
7. ultramarine blue
8. terra verte (green earth)
9. caput mortuum (Violet Oxide, or Spanish Earth)
10. Raw Umber
11. Ivory Black

PAINTING SURFACES For each class we will work on one or two paintings in a suggested small or
medium size. Below is a choice of three different approaches to making painting surfaces including a
very economical choice of using paper. I will always encourage you to choose the size you want to use
per project, so that you can enjoy the experience to the fullest.

1. Gessoed Paper (optional: with a Gloss Medium coating) is an economic option
2. Stretched Canvases: suggested sizes
(4) 11×15; or 9” x 12”

(4) 18×24; or 20” x 24”
(2) 30X30”, OR 24×30”
3. Roll of primed canvas: Dick Blick Cotton Canvas By the Yard – 12 oz, Acrylic Primed (64-1/2'' W x
6 yd) in which you can cut to size as you go.

TOOLS AND OTHER

• selection of brushes, large, med and small in round shape only
• Palette (choose one of the following)
• Handheld wooden
• Paper, disposable
• Glass, resting on white surface
• Paint rags (can be old t-shirts) or-/ Good quality paper towels
• Palette knife
• Solvent (odorless mineral spirits)
• Baby oil or Mineral oil to clean brushes
• if using acrylics, containers for paint and water
• an easel, wall, or board upon which to attach the canvas

DRAWING SUPPLIES

• small to medium sized sketchbook (recommended)
• pencils/charcoal, eraser