ACRYLICS – ABSTRACT PAINTNIG

Saturday, SEPTEMBER 20th
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

ACRYLICS – ABSTRACT PAINTNIG
Taught by MARSHA GRAY CARRINGTON

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Description of Playful Abstraction – An Abstract Painting Workshop

1. PLAY: Students are encouraged to Play – especially when beginning a painting.
2. LAYERING: Learn how to create many layers and not commit to the first pass. Students are encouraged to try things freely without fear. It’s paint!
3. VALUE: How to create the Loud conversation with the Quiet conversation in a piece.
4. DESIGN: How to create differences in shapes and marks for visual interest.
5. COLOR: How to use color to move the eye around a painting, and utilizing saturated color as accents while mixing colors instead of color straight from the tube.
6. MOTHER COLOR: How to create a color by mixing several colors which allows all colors in a piece to relate to one another.
7. MARK MAKING: Learn how to use different tools and techniques to create marks. Examples include a sharpened chopstick, grooved tools, old toothbrush, etc. NOTE: I will bring many tools to try!
8. MIXED MEDIA: Students are encouraged to use other mediums such as pencils, crayons, oil pastels, china markers, acrylic pens, and watercolor pencils to create marks.
9. STENCILS: How to create stencils with tape to create shapes.
10. COLLAGE: How to add collage elements effectively.
11. GLAZING: How to use glazing techniques.
12. FINAL PROTE

RAY CARRINGTONCTIVE COAT: Add a final coat such as Acrylic Medium (gloss, matte, or a combination, to protect your final piece.

Supply List:  Downloadable PDF

• 12×12 Primed wood panel or canvas – 1 per student (or 12×16, 11×14, 16×16 may be used)
• 12 x 16 plastic cafeteria tray – 1 per student – used for palette. I will be bringing freezer paper which can also be used for a palette.  SEE AMAZON for trays or use something comparable.
• Acrylic paint: Bring whatever colors you would like to use for your palette, but make sure to bring Black (Mars, or Carbon) & Titanium White. Other colors I recommend:
• I RECOMMEND ordering from NOVA COLOR. It’s a medium body paint with really great color quality. https://novacolorpaint.com Also check out other art suppliers for this brand. There is also student grade acrylic paint at the art store
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Cadmium Red Light Quinacridone
• Magenta Cadmium
• Yellow Deep Cadmium
• Yellow Light Yellow Ochre
• Ultramarine Bluе
• Pthalo Blue
• Any other colors you prefer like hot pink, green, а purple or violet, raw umber and/or burnt Sienna

Paint Brushes (you can get packs of brushes for cheap) – Flats and Rounds – 1, 2 and 3 [plus some larger inexpensive brushes like you would use for painting a wall – 1-2″

Palette Knife – 1 per student
4 oz. Acrylic Medium – Gloss
4 oz. Acrylic Medium – Matte
Tracing paper – at least two sheets 9×12
Shop Towels – 1 roll of blue shop towels (can get at Menards in Auto section) per student
Mark making tools from everyday items – Marking tools such as: old fork, plastic fork, sharpened chop stick, old credit or gift card, small squeegee, plastic knife, spatula, old comb, popsicle stick, old toothbrush, corrugated card board pieces, bubble wrap, sponge, anything else that a student could scrape or apply paint with or make shapes and marks with. Be imaginative!

If you wish to collage: Ideas: old receipts, notes, old letters, photos, photocopies of pictures, book pages, memos, newspaper, personal art on paper to recycle, ticket stubs, stamps, etc. More personal the better.

Other items students can bring if they want – acrylic markers, oil sticks, graphite pencils, charcoal pencils, watercolor pencils, crayons, china markers.

MARSHA WILL SUPPLY – Painters Tape, Freezer Paper, Various tools to borrow, Wax paper.

Bio:

Marsha Gray Carrington is a fine artist whose professional background includes a 13 year career working in visual effects animation on major motion pictures such as Braveheart, Ghost and Hocus Pocus, with her last stint at Disney Studios. She has illustrated seven Children’s Books for major publishers and owned and designed for a greeting card company for over 10 years.

After living in Los Angeles, CA for 30 years, Marsha and her husband moved to downtown Sandusky in 2009. She owned and operated the gallery Carrington Arts for 6 years and now has a working studio behind her home where she spends most of her days painting. She is on the Sandusky Commission for Public Art and Culture, a board member at the Sandusky Cultural Center, exhibits her work in solo and group shows, and periodically does painting workshops locally.

Marsha enjoys Sandusky and is happy to see the re-birth that is happening in the community.

She hopes one day to see an Art Center in the downtown area.