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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

A class for beginning to advanced painters of a variety of wet media, including oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor. Experiment with color! Learn how to mix clean, beautiful colors and how to use color skillfully in your work. Develop your color sensitivity in order to be able to use color effectively to convey emotion and mood in your paintings. We meet live online in an interactive format- log on ready to paint! You will need a personal device (smart phone, tablet, laptop, desktop computer) with camera & audio capability.

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

1. PAINTS
Acrylic, oil, gouache or watercolor
Bring all tubes of paint that you have on hand and we will go through them and choose
the limited palette colors needed for the different lessons.
If you do not own any paint at this time purchase the #2 expanded palette colors on my
materials page on my website plus the additional earth colors listed https://
marybyrom.com/info/classesandworkshops/
materials/ . Buy professional grade paint.
We will discuss additional colors and supplies in the first class.

2. BRUSHES
Bring a selection of brushes brights flats rounds natural bristle brushes or synthetics if
you have them.
Sables, soft brushes and synthetics are fine if you paint with gouache or watercolor.
Brush list on my materials page is here: https://marybyrom.com/info/
classesandworkshops/materials/
In the first class: We will discuss brushes that you need to use.

3. SUBSTRATES
We will be painting lots of small color tests and color experiments in this class.
For acrylics and oils use gessoed mat board, gessoed card stock, gessoed canvas
paper or canvas paper pad. Any stiff heavy paper will work if it is gessoed on front and
back with 1 coat of gesso. Paper weight - 98 pound and heavier is fine.
You do not have to use real heavy paper for gouache. You can paint on 98 pound paper
or 140 lb.watercolor paper. If you already own watercolor paper, use that.

4. SKETCHBOOK
My students find that keeping their color tests in one place, inside a sketchbook helps
them keep track of them for future use.
If you do not own a sketchbook a good one to start with is the Canson multimedia 98 lb
paper. I use an 11x14 size for all my color tests. I also use Arches , Khadi and
Kilimanjaro,140 lb, 100 % cotton paper for color tests which I then glue into my 11x14”
Canson sketchbook.
If you have other heavy weight paper you like to use please feel free to use it. You can
gesso the pages if you are using oils. Acrylic on watercolor or multimedia paper should
be fine without gesso.
SIZE: You can use any size sketchbook you prefer. Some students in the past painted
all their colors mixes in small 4X4” sketchbooks (140 lb paper) so they could take the
small book with them on plein air painting excursions. They used this book for color
mixing formulas while out doors painting on location.

Mary Byrom

Mary Byrom is an award winning, internationally exhibited artist, well known for her sensitive, elegant interpretations of wild, beautiful places. She paints outdoors all year, capturing plein air paintings of the landscape that are brought back to the studio where they become the inspiration for large landscape paintings. She paints en plein air around the country, and is a sought after teacher. She is featured in publications such as, the *Plein Air *Magazine , *Southwest Art * magazine, the *Portland Press Herald*, *Art Scope* and numerous other publications. She lives in North Berwick, Maine.
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