SHAKE IT UP! This 6 week course will shake you from your comfort zone and expose you to different ways to approach your art. It will be helpful if you are feeling stuck, or if you are bored or stalled, or if you simply want to try some new things to stretch yourself creatively. For example we’ll spend one week working BIG. One week doing monochromatic paintings. Once week doing very small works, but multiples of them. I will be working in acrylic, but if you would prefer to work in oils, that will be fine, too. Be open to new or different approaches and be fearless!
About the Instructor: Kelley MacDonald
After getting her Art History degree at Wheaton College, Kelley continued taking art classes at various Art Associations for 10 years before she started painting. First with watercolor, then oil and now happily with acrylic and mixed media, it has been a lifetime of growing and exploring all things art.
Kelley has won numerous awards, and has taught classes and workshops for many years. While for the majority of her career Kelley has been a literal, representational painter, in the past 4 years she has been diving into abstraction, particularly Intuitive Abstraction. The history involved on the canvas, the multiple layers, the reveal and conceal and push and pull are what attracts her to this method.
A favorite thing to do is to travel, and be inspired by different landscapes and cityscapes. Kelley has traveled to Holland to paint, along with many places on this side of the ocean, namely Nova Scotia, Sedona, Santa Fe, St. Simon’s Island, Seattle, San Miguel de Allende, MX, California and Maine.
In 2009 Kelley founded the Artists’ Challenge Group “Girls Just Wanna Paint” which is a collection of award winning artists who post a response to a new topic every month consecutively since July of 2009. Aside from the Providence Art Club Kelley is a member of the North River Arts Society in Marshfield, MA. She has taught at the Art Club, Bristol Art Museum, and at North River Arts Society.
Materials List
Really, any medium you are familiar with! IF you are a watercolorist,
be prepared to use big brushes and large paper at times :)
I always recommend a warm and a cool of red, yellow and blue, plus titanium white and a dark neutral such as (what I always have on hand) BURNT Umber (raw umber will not give you the same results) or Payne’s gray.
Examples of warm/cool:
- Cadmium Red LIGHT and Alizarin Crimson or a Quinacridone Magenta or a Rose
- Cad Yellow Medium and Cad Yellow Lemon (or cad yellow light)
- Ultramarine Blue and Pthalo Blue
- Artist’s tape
- Apron or big shirt
- Container for water or turps, for oil paints
- Disposable Palette
- Canvas Boards, assorted sizes, and/or painting paper such as Canson Painting Paper pads in any size. OR - any heavy paper like Bristol Board or Canvas Paper. We will work in different sizes, and at least ONE week, we will use a LARGE format - up to 20x20 or 20x24, so paper or canvas in that size.
- Assorted sized of brushes - I use mostly Flat brushes, from 1/4 inch to 2 inches - you can get the larger ones at hardware stores
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Paper Towels
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