For Tweens & Teens with Shandelle McCurdie

This course will teach the basics of colour theory, painting mediums, tools and techniques. In this time we will practise with watercolours and acrylic paints.

Week 1: Introduction to myself and all students. We will go over our materials and how we will use them. Learn Basic Watercolour techniques, washes and application.

Week 2: Students and I will talk about colour theory and apply last week’s teachings into a landscape piece that students and I will complete together.

Week 3: Intro to Acrylic painting, colour mixing and brush techniques. Use our first canvas to sample materials and experiment with paint, value, . We will look at famous artists as inspo for our final class.

Week 4: Students will recreate a painting from an artist that we admire using the techniques from last class. Students will have 2 painted pieces by the end of this course.

Throughout the courses, we will experiment with techniques and study famous artists (old & now) to understand how to apply these into our own paintings, including:

• Paper Prep
• Wet on Wet
• Dry Brush
• Salt, Cling Wrap and other textures
• Colour Theory Acrylics;
• Canvas Prep
• Preliminary Sketch
• Colour Mixing
• Values
• Composition & Perspective

Artist that we will learn about: Leonardo Da Vinci, Gustav Klimt, Hilma af Klint, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Mickalene Thomas, Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Mattise, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama.

Materials Required

• Watercolour paper (4-5 sheets @ 8”X10”)
• Brushes (5 sizes; small – large)
• Jar for water (to rinse brushes)
• Old rag (to clean brushes)
• Masking Tape
• Sponge
• Cling Wrap, Salt, white wax crayon
• Acrylic Paint Set; Red, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Green, Orange, White
• Canvas (2 @ 8”X10”)