Acrylic Painting Class
Room 116, Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma, CA 95476
Learn how to paint with acrylics! In this class we’ll practice using black and white to understand value, play with mixing colors to make a color wheel, and experiment with using tints, tones and shades to complete a finished painting.
Please register before November 4th.
- Lesson 1 – value does the work
- Setting up your paints
- Mixing black and white
- Painting a value scale
- What can I use this for?
- Painting a sphere in black and white
- Looking at lit and shadow sides
- Terminator
- Cast shadow
- Highlight
- Lesson 2 – playing with color
- Mixing secondary and tertiary colors
- Making a color wheel
- Mixing tints, tones and shades
- Making color strips
- Mixing mutes
- Making browns
- Lesson 3 – a finished painting
- Painting a simple still life (apple, lemon, etc)
- What colors do you see?
- How is it like a sphere?
- Where are the lights and darks?
- Where are the warms and cools?
- What about saturation – where do you see subtle variations that you can ad
Safety Information
- Staff is First Aid Certified
- Employee Background Checks
- Carries Liability Insurance
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Policies
We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 business days notice, we will not be able to provide a full refund. A flat cancellation fee of $15 will be charged to cover the transaction fee.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee (minus the payment processing and services fee), or credit towards a future class. Enrichment.kids platform and credit card payment processing fees are non-refundable, the Sonoma Community Center does not hold these funds. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
All credits must be used within 1 year. As a reminder, if you do not feel well please stay home for the class or session. If you would like a refund, please contact: [email protected]
Location
Sonoma Community Center
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