Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, October 21 and 22
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • Canvas Board 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes.
  • Palette knife, paper towels and a few canvas boards, 8×10 or bigger.

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Thalo Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, September 9 and 10
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • Canvas Board 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes.
  • Palette knife, paper towels and a few canvas boards, 8×10 or bigger.

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Thalo Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, August 26 and 27
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • Canvas Board 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes.
  • Palette knife, paper towels and a few canvas boards, 8×10 or bigger.

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Thalo Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

The key element of a great oil painting is a solid drawing undergirding it. While a great drawing can stand alone without needing to be painted, a great painting can’t be so without a great drawing/underpainting to start. In this class, students will learn a simple approach to drawing semi-complex to complex subjects with paint into an underpainting. Under the guidence of the instructor, students will turn turn thir underpainting into a finshed piece! Students will likely be able to complete two projects over the course of the class.

Tuesday, October 3 – 24 
9 am – noon

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Age: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supplies: Show confirmation receipt at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount. 

• Paint: Note: If you already have a set of oil paint with a variety of colors, you are welcome to bring it, if not you should get the following colors: M. Graham brand , Zinc White (37ml), Titanium White (37ml), Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37 ml)
• Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits. 
• Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz)
• Containers: Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner) Small can such as olive can (for medium)
• Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10 Or Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10 Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes.
• Painting or Palette knife (steel is preferable to plastic)
• Disposable Palette
• New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar
• Brush Cleaner
• The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 oz
• 2- Stretched Canvases or Canvas Panels (9”x12”, 11”x14, or 12”x16” – larger sizes than these not recommended due to time constraints)
• Roll of absorbent paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels)
• Optional: Nitrile gloves
• Approximate cost of above items $100- $120

Painting a nocturne, or night scene can be a challenging endeavor since the artist is attempting to portray something that is devoid of light. As such, the artist must use license to make the mostly unseeable seen.  In this class, students will learn a technique to create a nocturne using a well-lit reference changing day to night. Students who have taken the Landscape Basics class will benefit, but it is not a prerequisite. Students will be able to apply the techniques learned in this course to future nocturne paintings. 

Wednesday, September 6 – 27
9 am – noon

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Ages: (15+) |  All Levels

Supplies: Show confirmation receipt at Nevada Fine Arts to receive a 10% discount. 

• Paint: Note: If you already have a set of oil paint with a variety of colors, you are welcome to bring it, if not you should get the following colors:
  M. Graham brand , Zinc White (37ml), Titanium White (37ml), Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37 ml)
• Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits. 
• Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz)
• Containers: Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner), Small can such as olive can (for medium)
• Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10, Or , Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10, Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes.
• Painting or Palette knife (steel is preferable to plastic), Disposable
• Palette
• New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar
• Brush Cleaner
• The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 oz
• 2- Stretched Canvases or Canvas Panels (9”x12”, 11”x14, or 12”x16” – larger sizes than these not recommended due to time constraints)
• Roll of absorbent paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels)
• Optional: Nitrile gloves
• Approximate cost of above items $100- $120

In this two-session course, students will focus on the importance of value in landscape paintings. The subject of lavender fields will be explored in a monochromatic painting in the first session, focusing on value as well as wet in wet & wet on dry watercolor techniques. In the second session students will use the knowledge of value in monochrome and apply it to a full spectrum painting.

Mondays, August 7 and 14
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Iva Neveux
Age: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supply list: Show confirmation reciept at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

• Watercolor paper – at least 2 sheets of 9” x 12”, 140 lb, cold press (100% cotton such as Arches or Daler-Rowney Langton Prestige, Fabriano Artistico suggested)
• Scrap paper (watercolor paper of a lesser quality for practice)
• Brushes – 1” flat, round brushes # 4, 8 and 12 (or any smaller and larger round brush with a point)
• Palette that includes Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine blue, Permanent Rose, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Sap Green, Burned Sienna, Indigo
• HB pencil, mechanical pencil
• Kneaded eraser
• Tracing paper
• Paper towels
• 2 containers for water
• Spray bottle and a mister
• Flat board to place your paper on (plexiglass, foamboard or similar)
   

Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, July 29 and 30
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • Canvas Board 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes.
  • Palette knife, paper towels and a few canvas boards, 8×10 or bigger.

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Thalo Blue
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

Discover the beauty of Plein Air painting in oils! Class will meet in a local park or suitable public location and will concentrate on the plein air process capturing the essence of a scene in a limited amount of time.  Whether you’re a beginner or experienced artist looking to refine your skills, the instructor will guide you through the process step by step. Students will learn various plein air techniques, including composition, color mixing, capturing light and shadow, and creating atmospheric effects. Class will meet in the same location each day so that students can return to the same scene and demonstrations will also be done at the beginning of class. Engaging with nature first-hand will deepen your understanding of the environment and enhance your ability to interpret it on canvas. 

It is recommended to use 9″x12” panels for this class and not canvas to prevent unwanted light penetrating through the back of the canvas. If you prefer stretched canvas, staple cardboard to the back side to block out light.

Please bring with you any plein air painting supplies you may have in addition to sunblock, hat, folding chair/stool, water and any other materials you want to bring. 

Note: This class will be held at Rancho San Rafael Park. The contingency dates for the class, should the weather not agree, will be the following week, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 18 and 19.

Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11 and 12
9 am – 1 pm

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Age: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supplies: Bring a confirmation email to Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount. 

Paint: Note: If you already have a set of oil paint with a variety of colors, you are welcome to bring it, if not you should get the following colors: M. Graham brand Zinc White (37ml), Titanium White (37ml), Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37 ml)

Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits. 

Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz), Containers: Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner), Small can such as olive can (for medium), Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10 Or Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10 Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes. Painting or Palette knife (steel is preferable to plastic) Disposable Palette New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar, Brush Cleaner The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 ozCanvas, 4- Stretched Canvases or Canvas Panels (9”x12”, 11”x14, or 12”x16” – larger sizes than these not recommended due to time constraints), Roll of absorbent paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels), Nitrile gloves.

Join this class to create floral greeting cards for any occasion. Under the guidance of the instructor, students will be using ‘wet on wet’ and ‘wet on dry’ watercolor techniques. Students will be able to make a variety of cards of their choosing.  

Wednesdays, July 12 and 19
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Iva Neveux
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supply List: Show confirmation receipt at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

• Watercolor pallet including your preferred reds, yellows, blues including indigo and earths including burnt sienna & burnt umber
• Variety of watercolor brushes including 1” flat, #6 or # 8 round, fan and rigger brush
• Pad (several sheets) of Arches cold press 140 lb watercolor paper (9”x12” or larger), other 100% cotton brands will also work (Daler Rowney, Bee Paper, Winsor Newton); some student grade watercolor paper (Strathmore series 400) for charting and testing color and brush strokes
• Graphite or mechanical pencil
• Kneaded eraser
• Two plastic water containers
• Spray bottle and a mister bottle
• Roll of paper towels
• Palette knife and/or plastic card
• Masking fluid
• Masking tape
• Plastic board to tape your paper onto
• Ruler (optional)

In this one day class students will create a painting of their pet in just 5 hours! Working from photo reference, the instructor will guide students through texture painting techniques to help achieve the look of fur, feathers, scales, hair etc., and how to effectively create a successful composition of an animal. Students may use oil or acrylic paints for this class. 

Saturday, July 15
10 am – 3 pm

Instructor: Rachel Moseley
Age: Adult (15+)  | All levels

Supply list: Bring email confirmation to Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount. 

•    2 high resolution color prints, 8×10 or larger
•    Paints:
•    Titanium White
•    Lamp Black
•    Burnt Sienna
•    Alizarin Crimson
•    Azo Yellow
•    Ultramarine Blue
•    Yellow Ochre
•    Olive Green
•    Any other colors you choose to bring
•    Brushes
•    Pallet or Pallet Paper
•    Turpenoid/liquin or other painting mediums of your choice if using oils
•    Canvas or primed board, 8×10, 9×14, or 11×14