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Hello, and welcome to Judy Burgarella's Art Classes blog. This blog was created for the benefit of my students, and any other interested parties. My goal is to share what I know, and pass on the joy of creating art. students and possible future students, however it may evolve into more of a teaching tool in the future. For your viewing enjoyment, be sure to visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLf7ACVaJk to see a condensed version of my portrait painting in time-lapse, video by model/videographer Bob Barbour.
First of all, congratulations to those of you newbies taking the first step into a world of color, beauty, adventure and constant learning. As you open this new chapter of your life you will notice an increased awareness of the beauty and colors all around you, and you will find yourself looking to have more time to create works of art for your personal satisfaction, psyche and health. Picking up a brush and applying pigment to canvas just feels good. And it is a never-ending learning process, one which has a limitless variety of styles, mediums and subject matter, and provides opportunities to meet new and interesting people to whom you will soon have much in common.
I bring to the classroom years of experience in drawing, painting, teaching and writing, in addition to showing my work in hundreds of art exhibitions, juried shows, galleries and museums, and organizing and promoting many shows myself. My work resides in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad, and has received numerous awards. I am also available for painting/drawing demonstrations, in the medium and subject of your choice. My teaching skills include: drawing in pencil, charcoal, pastels; painting in oils (including water-soluble oils), acrylics, watercolor, gouache; and sculpture in clay.
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I am available for private single and group art classes, workshops and demonstrations:
Private art classes: $40 per hour, minimum of 2-1/2 hours
Workshops: Call for more information
Demonstrations: Call for price quote and availability
Portraiture and/or Open Studio
Vero Beach Museum of Art, 3001 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, just off the Barber Bridge
Five Mondays each semester (except summer semester), 3 hours each session, 1:30-4:30
Call VBMA at 772-231-0707, or call me at 772-584-9169.
SUPPLIES FOR CLASSES IN THE VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
ACRYLIC PAINTS (Oils are permissible also)
Any good brand such as Liquitex Heavy Body (do not get Basics), Grumbacher, Windsor and Newton, Golden (tubes), Utrecht, Holbein
Note: The cheaper the paint, the more binder and less pigment, and the more color shifting. Cheaper paints tend to be more transparent and dry considerably darker in color. Less dependable. If you are a newby, just buy a set of small inexpensive tubes to start off with, to see if this medium is something you would like to pursue. Otherwise, buy the best you can afford, and try to purchase the colors that are asterisked below as being essential to start off with.
*Titanium white, Lemon yellow, Cadmium Yellow, *Cadmium Yellow Medium, *Yellow ochre, *Cadmium orange, *Cadmium red light, Cadmium red medium, *Alizarin crimson, *Dioxazine Purple, *Ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, phthalo blue, *prussian blue, *sap green (or Hookers green if you can't find Sap), Viridian green, Olive green, *Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, *Raw Umber, *Ivory Black, Paynes Gray.
BRUSHES
"Scholastic" or "Student Grade" brushes are lesser quality. It is best to go to the craft store and pick your brushes out personally, making sure the springback is sufficient, and bristles are not too soft. Purchase what you can afford. Dependable brands are: Liquitex, Grumbacher, Windsor and Newton, Princeton, Simply Simmons, Rosemary's Brushes; however some times you may get lucky with an off-brand.
Round 0, 1, 3, 5, 8. Flat 4, 8, 10. Filbert 2, 6, 8, Bright 3, 5, 7. Fan brush and liner brush. Bristles need to have a good firm spring-back in order to push the acrylic paints around. Or bring what you have and you will soon see what you need.
SUPPLIES FOR ACRYLICS
Canvas -
2 canvas boards - 12 x 16
1 canvas board 16 x 20 to make a color chart (optional)
Stay-Wet palette, or palette of your choice for acrylics. 3 large plastic or foam dishes will do, one for paints, one for mixing and one for taping on top of your paint to bring home. Please do not bring in paper plates.
*Container for water (no paper cups please)
Palette knife approx. 1-1/4" blade preferred
Roll of paper towels
Q-tips
*Small spray bottle (small-can be purchased at the Dollar Tree)
Vine charcoal or pencil for drawing
Graphite paper (for tracing)
Cellophane or other type of tape
Rags (cotton or T-shirt material. No terrycloth please)
*Paint extender or retarder if desired. Optional.
Trash bag
SUPPLIES FOR OILS
All of the above except *. Add:
Linseed oil
Odorless turpenoid (NOT Turpenoid Natural)
Liquin (paint additive that speeds up drying and makes paint more spreadable
3 metal palette cups (to use for oil, turp and Liquin)
Stay-wet palette can also be used for oils if you use freezer paper as a palette. I tape freezer paper to a square palette that fits snugly inside.
Brushes: bristle brushes are great, but anything with a good spring-back will do. No really soft brushes as they cannot push the oil paint around. #1, 3, 6, 8 rounds, 2, 4, 6, 8 flats, 2, 4, 6 brights, a fan brush and liner brush.
Water-soluble oils: Supplies are the same as above, except water-based linseed oil (optional), water container.
GENERAL SUPPLIES FOR ALL MEDIUMS
- Painting Surface (canvas boards or stretched canvas for oils or acrylics, W/C paper for watercolor)
- Suggested brushes - #1, 3, 6, 8 rounds. #2, 4, 6, 8 flats, 2, 6 8 filbert, 3, 5, 7 Bright. Fan brush and liner brush
- Painting mediums - Water for acrylic and watercolor, Turpenoid and linseed oil for oils, and container to put them in.
- Palette
- Rags (cotton or T-shirt material. No terrycloth please)
- Roll of paper towels
- Easel (an easel is provided for you at the VBMA)
- Apron
- Note paper and pen
- Pencil
- Graphite paper (if tracing)
- Vine charcoal (or pencil if drawing free-hand)
- Palette knife (not needed for watercolor)
- Spray bottle for watercolor or acrylic
- Q-tips
- Trash bag (for your own debris)
- Water container for acrylic or oil (no paper cups please)
If you bring your own image to paint from, be sure it is not too small to see detail, is clear and colors are crisp. It is best if you have a large copy made on glossy photo paper. If you plan to trace your image, bring a black and white copy in the size you need so that you do not have to use your original image to trace with. Tracing lines will obliterate the fine detail of your original.
See my portrait blog -
www.burgarellaportraits.blogspot.com or www.artbyburgarella.blogspot.com for samples of my artwork. Also visit www.burgarellaarttipsandtricks.blogspot.com for some fun art information.
It is my mission to spread the joy of painting and to share all the positive aspects of creating and enjoying art. If you are reading this and have any reservations whether or not to "jump in" and pick up a paintbrush, please call me at 772-581-8281 and I will help you through the process of making the right decision, one which will give you pleasure for the rest of your life.
Regards,
Judy Burgarella - 772-581-8281, www.judithburgarella@gmail.com
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