Instructor: Professional Artist, TurningBear Mason
There are various levels of classes fitting for all art students from beginner to advanced. It is up to you to choose the course that matches your desire and skill level. If you are a beginner, knowing how to draw is a Bedrock necessity to all art disciplines. Beginners are highly encouraged to take the drawing classes. Please see the Drawing Classes page.
Courses are available in either a workshop format of two six hour days, or a class format of four three hour days.
These classes will encourage confidence via practicing observation of form, values, and hues of the subject. We will learn how to use complementary colors together for shadowing and lighting and how to mix the primary colors together to create a verity of secondary and tertiary colors to promote mood and reality.
To register and/or for any questions call me 520-820-9027
Where: TurningBear's Studio NW Tucson, AZ
Price: $240 for each Class/Workshop
Please contact us if you are interested in upcoming classes.
Go to AZ Art Supply, 4343 N. Oracle Road, Tucson; Phone #520-388-5555
Tell them TurningBear sent you and ask for the 20% student discount!
Monochromatic exercises are designed to help the student focus on the value (shades of light and dark) of the subject and how to turn form in paint and create the illusion of the third dimension. This study clearly reveals any problems in rendering and helps isolate the areas the student needs to develop further. Understanding how to render value is a benchmark of knowledge necessary for solving more complex problems. From here the student can turn his or her attention to land/seascapes, cast, still-life and figure paintings.
Easel: For table or free standing.
Palette and Palette knife
Substrate: 11 x14” Stretched Canvas, Canvas or Wooden Panel (Masonite)
Oil Paint: Burnt Umber, White
Paint Brushes:
EBONY SPLENDOR Red Sable size 12 Bright
PRINCETON Mongoose size 6 & 8 Flat
PRINCETON Mongoose size 6 Short Filbert
Solvent: Odorless “Gamsol” by Gamblin
Glass Jar & Lid for solvent
Paper Towels
The transition is made by using mostly the primary colors. Both the beginner and the experienced student will learn about color theory. One of the values of Limited Palette painting is having experience to be able to paint "en plein air" (on site, open air). The beginning student who has studied monochromatic painting will progress to working with color.
Easel: For table or free standing.
Palette and Palette knife
Substrate: 11 x14” Stretched Canvas, Canvas or Wooden Panel (Masonite)
Oil Paint: White, Yellow Medium, Red Light, Burnt Sienna, Ultra Marine Blue
Paint Brushes:
EBONY SPLENDOR Red Sable size 12 Bright
PRINCETON Mongoose size 6 & 8 Flat
PRINCETON Mongoose size 6 Short Filbert
Solvent: Odorless “Gamsol” by Gamblin
Glass Jar & Lid for solvent
Paper Towels