Oil Painting for Beginner Adults with Liz Fusco | February | Spring

Oil Painting for Beginner Adults with Liz Fusco | February | Spring

Painting | This class is completed

Beginner, Intermediate

2/4/2021-2/25/2021

6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT on Th

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150.00 USD

Member Discount Available

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Students will learn the basics of composition and setting up still life. Working in the beginning from one of my photos, students will learn how to draw a simple composition onto a canvas. They will learn how to create an underpainting, block in shapes and work up to the final details. Students will then be encouraged to work from life by setting up their own still life to begin their new painting.

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  • • Easel: Something to keep your canvas on while you are painting.
  • • Paints: oil paints (not student grade) in the following colors (recommended are either Grumbacher, Winsor & Newton, Gamblin) - Cadmium yellow, Lemon yellow, Cadmium red, French Ultramarine Blue, Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Sap Green
  • • Canvas: no larger than 11 x 14 (2)
  • • Palette: wooden, plastic or anything you can mix your paints on
  • • Palette knife
  • • Gamsol (or other paint thinner, such as odorless mineral spirits)
  • • Brushes: a few different sizes and shapes. I use a combination of some large flats that are a bit stiff and some smaller filberts and rounds.
  • • Rags: cotton or some good paper towels
Fusco, Liz

Painting and drawing is something I’ve been doing my entire life. I started my art career in high school and took a hiatus after getting married and raising a family. Going back to get my degree was always a goal of mine and as an adult I studied oil painting- both landscape and still life, .and I received my B.F.A. and MA with a NY certification in Art Education. As a teacher and lifelong learner, I am always looking to expand my knowledge. In 2014, I enrolled in the Botanical Certificate program at the New York Botanical Gardens and earned my certificate in
2017. Because of my passion for nature, wildlife and gardening, I began painting flowers and plant life. I really enjoy painting in both oils and watercolor and my subjects almost always include natural objects.
I have been exhibiting my work in local and national shows since 2010 and received awards for honorable mention and The Roth Award for Botanical Distinction at Filoli Gardens annual Botanical Exhibit in San Francisco, California. A recent group exhibit at the Carter Burden
Gallery in New York, had been featured in Fine Arts Connoisseur magazine in July of 2021. I have also had my work featured in other publications as Botanical Artist Journal, The Smithtown News and the TBR Artist Coloring Book published by the Times Beacon Record.
I am currently teaching Watercolor, Drawing and Oil Painting at the Art Leagues of Long Island and also at The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James and also at the Art Guild in Port Washington.