Intro to Abstract Painting: Acrylics with Kevin Larkin | Fridays 10am-1pm | 2/21- 3/7| Spring 2025
Painting | Available
You will learn how to create abstract works using various techniques and tools. Learn what abstract art is; its development, and the history of famous “ abstract“ painters. This class is perfect for those who want to discover their own style and immerse themselves in the practice of abstract art.
- SUPPLY LIST
- •ACRYLIC PAINT- 4 oz tubes or larger. 8 or more colors plus black & white
- •CANVASES- 2 -18'X24' or larger stretched canvases
•CUPS- 1 dozen large (solo type) drinking cups( to mix paint)
•PAINT BRUSHES- 3-4 flat acrylic paint brushes various sizes
- •MASKING TAPE- 1 roll
- •PAPER TOWELS- 1 roll
Kevin Larkin
Kevin Larkin has exhibited his award winning paintings throughout the NY metropolitan area, and is currently the President of the B.J. Spoke Gallery in Huntington.
" The artist advances by pursuing both complexity and simplicity. Often a breakthrough somehow discovers the one in the other, along with new ways of perceiving and managing both. Kevin Larkin’s latest works are his strongest: more than ever the picture and the painting are one and the same. There is no excess, nothing to demonstrate technique or to prove good work – only the success of the painting. Such simplicity is a risk: when there is no display of prowess, one risks the charge of not knowing what one is doing. Kevin Larkin is indifferent to charges: his only concern is to make a picture that works well.
Even when one’s tested and proven approaches demand work that is greatly challenging, the