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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sign up soon for Mike Beeman's Workshop


Time is running out so sign up soon!!!
Mike Beeman
"Having Fun with Painting Workshop"
October 20-21, 2012
9am-4pm

Location: Cheyenne Artists Guild
1701 Morrie Avenue
Cheyenne Wyoming 82009
United States


The cost is $125 for Artists Guild members and $150 for non members.  If you have any further questions, or are ready to sign up please contact the Cheyenne Artists Guild at 632-2263 or check out the website at: 


You will Spend an intensive two days learning the basics of painting with your favorite medium and its application to creating innovative and exciting paintings. This workshop will cover the following technical and fundamental applications of various media and artistic considerations using demonstrations and practice sessions.

STUDENTS WILL LEARN:
  • The use of Notans
  • How to block a painting in with three values
  • Developing thumbnails for problem solving
  • Working with color
  • Focusing on the importance of lost and found edges
  • The importance of squinting and how it simplifies your subject matter
  • Critique sessions
This workshop will assist students in obtaining a certain level of confidence in their painting ability and to acquire skills that can be used with any painting medium.

Students can bring their own reference material (photos, sketches, etc). 



MATERIAL LIST: 
Bring what you use at home as your preferred materials in pastel, oil, watercolor or acrylics. Examples of materials Mike uses in his works are as follows:

LIST OF MATERIALS FOR PASTELS: 
A selection of soft and hard pastels like Terry Ludwig’s, Rembrandt, Grumbacher, Schmincke, Unison, Art Spectrum, NuPastels, etc.
PASTEL PENCILS: Carb Othello or similar brand of pastel pencils….black*, white*, warm*, and cool gray*
PAPER: 2-3 sheets of 9” x 12” paper or board of your preference.  Mike will be using a textured surface, such as Belgium Mist Wallis paper, LaCarte Pastel Board or a gray Canson.
BOARD: Pastel support/drawing board for 9”x 12” paper
A small sketchbook, any size (8” x 10”, 7” x 9”, etc.) or a few pieces of paper for sketching.


LIST OF MATERIALS MIKE USES FOR OIL, WATERCOLOR OR ACRYLICS:
Oil Brands: Mike usually uses Gamblin, Rembrandt’s, or Winsor Newton Pigments:
TOR Transparent Oxide Red
Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Cad. Yellow Light 
Cad. Yellow Deep
Cad Red lt
Cad Orange
Alizarin Crimson
Cad Red Deep
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blur
Winsor Newton Titanium White
Rembrandt’s Warm and Cool Gray OR Gamblin’s light, medium and dark gray
Solvents- Gamblin odorless or any other odorless Turpentine… Do not bring any solvent that you can smell!
Brushes-  Small, medium and large flat or Filbert one medium round
Palette Knife
Palette
5” x 7” canvas boards
Papertowels**
Water containers for watercolor or acrylics



CAG hours of operation are Tuesday-Friday, noon-4:30pm.
 1701 Morrie Ave. in Holliday Park.
Cheyenne, WY  

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