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Painting of aspens in the forest in an impressionist style

Virtual Art & Sip: Contemporary Impressionist Landscape (Acrylic)

Painting of aspens in the forest in an impressionist styleAbout This Event

Inspired by our Enduring Impressions exhibit, Erin Angel will guide you through a contemporary Impressionist style painting of our local wooded areas.

Supplies Needed

  • A Canvas per class (or canvas board, or even primed cardboard if you don’t have access to a canvas)
  • Plastic Palette or paper plates to mix paints
  • Masking Tape
  • Water container
  • Paper towels or cotton painting towels (I make mine from old cotton t-shirts)
  • Newspaper, or something like it, to cover your work space
  • Scrap paper
  • Paint Brushes: I will be using: 3/4″ flat, 1/2″ flat, 1/4″ flat, 1/2″ filbert, 1 medium round, 2 small rounds for tiny lines. You can easily just use a 1/2” flat and a small round if you don’t want to buy lots of brushes
  • Acrylic Paints (paint names in parenthesis)
    • White (Titanium White)
    • Black (Mars Black)
    • Brown (Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber)
    • Warm Red (Grumbacher Red)
    • Cool Red (Alizarin Crimson)
    • Yellow (Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue)
    • Green (Hooker’s Green and Phthalo Green)
    • Blue (Ultramarine Blue)
    • Purple (Dioxazine Purple)

How to Participate:

Visit the Museum’s livestream webpage, Longmont Museum’s Facebook LIVE, LongmontPublicMedia.org, or Comcast Channel 8/880 starting at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 31, with your supplies ready. The instructor will guide you through the project through video.

About the Instructor:

Erin Angel comes to us with many years of summer camp, art education, and outdoors experience. She is well known for providing engaging, entertaining, and super fun, high-energy classes.

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