Think Outside The Box – The Enrichment Academy

Subject Art–   Think Outside The Box

Check supply updates as we get close to the day of class as I will continue to update this page. updated 2-7-2018

Class Objective– Learn to think outside the box.  This is an experimental abstract class. Turn shapes into abstract painting or experimenting with shapes forms and lines and take home a finished painting that unlocks your creative voice. What does abstract painting require of us?  Traditional painting conforms to a sent of guidelines from reality. Abstract painting lets you explore further outside  the box to external sources to find the resources where expressiveness exists. Step by step exercises will unlock the keys to the kingdom.

Paint Colors –  1. Airbrush medium if you already have it, Liquitex black, white, liner squeeze bottle, scissors, plastic wrap, freezer paper or wax paper,  paper towels, table cloth, bucket for water, a brush basically what inspires you.  Any kind of paint will due even fluid acrylics.  You do not need a palette for this class as paper plates will do.  I will do demos with different mediums and you will decide what you like and what you want to work with.

2. Bring  things from your general list like a water bucket, paper towels.  If you are just starting choose a few colors that you like. If you have acrylic paints of any kind, bring what you have.  In the examples I used, reds, yellows, greens, portrait pink. No stress.  In regard to a canvas you can use canvas board, watercolor paper, anything goes. You can bring pencils, link a charcoal pencil and a wood carpenter’s pencil to make marks with. This is not to draw with. They can be found at DK art supply. Think fun free marks like the ones you see in the pictures.