Acrylic Art:
Intermediate Painting
Shape your artistic vision with advanced techniques and personalized mentorship. This course bridges technical precision with creative exploration, offering intermediate and advanced painters the tools to evolve their practice across diverse styles—from vivid realism to bold abstraction—using their preferred medium. Refine your voice, master color and composition, and transform your work under expert guidance.
This eight-week in-person course is specifically designed for intermediate to advanced students who are eager to take their painting skills to the next level. While the course will cover advanced principles of art-making, it is centered on nurturing your vision and helping you bring your unique artistic style to life under the expert guidance of our instructor.
Throughout the course, students will explore a variety of painting techniques, colour mixing, and media applications, with an emphasis on more advanced approaches and approaches suited to each student's artistic goals. The course allows students to choose their preferred painting medium (except oil) and experiment with styles ranging from detailed, representational works to abstract and expressive pieces.
This course goes beyond just technique, offering a space for personal growth and creative expression. Students will be encouraged to push boundaries and expand their skills, all while receiving expert guidance to help them deepen their artistic practice and strengthen their visual language.
- Advance Your Technique Mastery: Delve into more advanced painting techniques that will refine your brushwork, texture creation, and detailing. Learn how to control your medium with precision for more sophisticated outcomes.
- Explore Colour Theory in Depth: Gain a deeper understanding of colour theory, including colour relationships, contrasts, and harmonies. Learn strategies for colour mixing to achieve a wider range of hues and tones, and understand how to use colour effectively to convey mood and atmosphere in your work.
- Develop Personal Style and Voice: Encouraged by personalized guidance, you'll have the opportunity to refine your personal artistic style. This course will help you identify and develop your unique voice as an artist.
- Study Advanced Composition Techniques: Learn about the principles of composition. Understand how to create compelling and balanced compositions, use of focal points, and the dynamic arrangement of elements in your artwork.
- Critique and Peer Review Sessions: Participate in critique sessions, offering a chance to receive constructive feedback from both the instructor and peers. These sessions are designed to foster a collaborative learning environment and to encourage the sharing of insights and techniques among classmates.
- Practical Application and Project Work: Apply your learning through hands-on exercises that challenge you to integrate new techniques and concepts into your personal work.
- Acrylic pigments (Ultramarine blue, Alizarin Crimson, Hansa Yellow, Yellow ochre)
- 8-ounce white Gesso
- Small Matte medium
- One canvas (no smaller than 14”x18”)
- Charcoal Pencils (medium) and Willow stick for drawing
- Sketchbook (no smaller than 12 x14")
- Five acrylic bristle brushes including one 1” Bright style brush, two medium sized brushes, one small and one Rigor style brush for detail
- Printed landscape photocopy, one black and white, one colour, each 11” x 17”, if possible
- A few sheets of Bond printer paper
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- A couple of coloured pencils
- Ruler or straight edge
- Rags
- Nitrile gloves
- Water container

Details
Fee: $395 & HST
Tuesdays, May 7 - June 25 | 7:15pm - 9:45pm (8 weeks)
CSI Annex
720 Bathurst St
Toronto, ON
M5S 2R4
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