Open Acrylics is a new way of working with a new product. Open Acrylics resist the skinning that forms on your painting pallet when left open. This medium is a new unique product with relaxing property that facilitates blending, softening, shading, glazing and final detail. The unique characteristics of Open Acrylics allow them to be used with natural fiber brushes and for a range of techniques including monoprinting. It also allows painting as you have before but coming back the next day and blending colors or glazing. Collage is always easy to add for a different result.My philosophy of teaching!
I thoroughly enjoy teaching and sharing my enthusiasm for this incredible medium, ACRYLIC. I have worked with acrylic for over 20 years, and with Golden's products for that same 20 years. Seventeen of them actually working for Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Acrylic excites me with all the possibilities, all the varied ways, you can take one single gel, and create so many varied options. I love the discovery of this, and the searching for another twist to it. I love the materiality of the material, and often I let it lead me into experimentation.
Sharing this excitement and discovery with artists who are open to making messes with a willingness to find beauty in that mess, is contagious.
I am not interested in teaching anyone "how to paint". There are so many great teachers that have that particular skill. I'm interested in opening doors for exploration, for the artist to get a peek inside the options and for that artist to take these discoveries home, and make paintings. - Patty Brady
Cutting-edge Acrylic Techniques!
In a hands-on, workshop style, Painterly Mixed Media with a Twist demonstrates the staggering range of this oh-so-versatile medium, capable of delicate transparent washes, lively impasto surfaces, and radical multi-dimensional effects. Acrylics are compatible with a wide range of materials, allowing for a virtual explosion of mixed-media artworks. There are more mediums, gels and grounds available for acrylics than for any other painting medium, affording you inexhaustible opportunities for applying pouring, brushing, scraping, squirting, swishing, rolling, flinging, sanding and what-have-you.
Discover everything you need to know to purchase, mix and work with acrylics successfully. From there, launch into chapter after chapter of possibilities: water media effects, creating texture with gels, subtractive techniques, collage and acrylic skins, acrylic transfers, and more.
Purchase Patty Brady's Book @ Central Art Supply Co.
DATE: 1/14 – 1/15 – 1/16 2010
TIME:10:00am - 4:00pm (1hr lunch break)
TUITION:$375 p / 3 days
Marc's workshop will focus on learning design and composition, creating emphasis with color, layering, exercises to loosen up, and learning by experimentation. Explore new ways to blend colors with found objects for colorful paintings and interesting textures. There will be plenty of individual help and positive feedback. (Plan on having fun!)
Come enjoy a presentation on acrylic paints from A to Z. We will cover pigments, extending paints, Digital Grounds, the new and exciting line of "OPEN" acrylic, the paint that stays wet and workable longer than regular acrylics, plus a whole lot more. There's a little something for everyone. All attendees will receive a valuable information packet and free samples of Golden products.
