Mixed Media Wednesdays in September & October

4 Mixed Media Wednesdays, September 27th, October 4th, 11th, & 18th, 2023 from | 9:15AM to 12:15PM | for $180 + tax

Build your confidence and move onto the next level with your paintings in this studio painting class with Anita Louise West occurring over four Wednesday’s. By working with Ms. West, a lifetime of painting experience is available to you to help you advance your paintings on three major  levels: content, design and techniques. Each class will have a short demo and individual help at the easel. We will explore how to paint in pastel, water media and oil paint as well as materials old and new.

During each class, you will learn how to maximize your use of the elements of art: shape, value, line, texture, and color. Each of these will be explained as well as demonstrated at every class session. Using the principles of design to increase your painting’s impact will be explained and so much more.

Demonstrations will be done in different mediums each week.

This class is open to students working in all media and all levels are welcome.

Bring your materials (paints, brushes, palette, surface and photos or sketches to work from). Easels are supplied. If you need a suggestion, here’s her recommended supply list.

Materials: 

Oils/Water Based Oils

• Oil or Water Based Oil Paints: cadmium yellow light, Cad red light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, other pigments. Personal preference, I like the Cobra brand.
• Brushes: bristle or synthetic flats or filberts
• Palette: Wood, glass or paper
• Surfaces: canvas panels or stretched
• Miscellaneous: paper towels, Gamsol for oils, palette knife
• Mediums: personal preference, water-based linseed oil

Pastels

• Pastels: sets of pastels such as Sennelier, NuPastels, or other pastels
• Surfaces: papers such as Canson, Fabriano, or Sanded: Colorfix or U Art 400
• Miscellaneous: backing board, tape, paper towels, glassine

Watercolor/Acrylic (Water Media)

• Paints: Watercolor paint, tube or pan
• Acrylic Paints: Cadmium yellow light, Red light, Blue, White
• Brushes: synthetic or sable rounds or flats
• Surfaces: Watercolor paper ie: 140lb cold press
• Miscellaneous: palette (closeable), water container, spray bottle, paper towels, tape,
  sponge

• Max Students: 10
• Bring Your Own Materials
• No Refunds after Saturday September 23rd
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building

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Artist Statement:
Ms. Anita Louise West has had a passion for painting from an early age. She graduated with a BA in Art from Missouri University. Ms. West went on to study at the Kansas City Art Institute on scholarship and earned a teaching certificate at the graduate level at UMKC. Teaching in public schools in Kansas, California and Texas, she continued to study and paint using oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Landscape painting on location helped to simplify the subject matter and paint without hesitation, and study the changing conditions of weather and light outdoors.

Anita’s fluency in all mediums and subject matter helps facilitate her students’ growth.

Having been a professional painter and business owner since 1989, Anita moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1993 where she was introduced to the national art world. She painted and taught workshops throughout the United States as well as Spain, France and Canada.

Returning to her childhood dream of painting in New York in 2007, Anita studied at the Art Students League with Mary Beth Mackenzie, Daniel Greene, Nelson Shanks and Richard Schmid. This experience in the studio helped her appreciate figure and portrait work as well as Plein Air painting. Co-author of Painting the Landscape in Pastel, Ms. West is capable of explaining and simplifying the materials and methods of painting in all mediums. For more information, please visit: http://anitalouisewest.com

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