Painting for Real Beginners with Jose Luis Nunez

Enjoy the beauty of painting during these two sessions that are designed for beginning lovers of artistic painting. At the end of these sessions the participants will know about the wide variety of materials and tools available to the artistic painter and will understand the fundamental theory and practice of the main painting topics.

Jose will perform a demo and participants will work on their own painting following the same model. At the end of the sessions, every participant will have done a painting.

Here’s the materials list so that each participant can bring what is needed. You are welcomed to work with oils, acrylics, or watercolors. Please choose only one medium.

This is our plan for the two sessions:

1. GETTING STARTED

1.1 Surface preparation
1.2 Painting materials
1.3 The color chart
1.4 Handling paint

2. MAIN CONCEPTS

2.1 Composition
2.2 Values
2.3 Colors

3. PAINTING:

3.1 Block-in
3.2 Alla Prima, layers
3.3 Grisalle
3.4 Impasto, texture
3.5 Final varnish