Virtual Art & Sip: Starry Night – A Van Gogh Tribute (Acrylic)
Virtual Art & Sip: Starry Night – A Van Gogh Tribute (Acrylic)
About This Event
In this series of painting classes, instructor Cipriano Ortega will explore brushwork, the interplay of colors, and the use of acrylic paint to create images of springtime and flowers, as well as an homage to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”
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 Longmont Museum’s Facebook LIVE page at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 17, with your supplies ready. The instructor will guide you through the project through video.
About the Instructor:
Cipriano Ortega has been in art education for more than 10 years. He has worked with both adults and children. Prior to COVID-19, he worked as a painting instructor and is very happy and exited to be doing it again virtually! Let’s have fun and immerse ourselves in art!
Other Acrylic Painting Classes this Season:
- February 17, Painting Poppies (Instructor: Leigh Putman)
- February 24, Impressionist Water Lilies (Instructor: Leigh Putman)
- March 31, Contemporary Impressionist Landscape (Instructor: Erin Angel)
- April 7, Snowy Trees (Instructor: Cipriano Ortega)
- April 14, Painting Orchids (Instructor: Cipriano Ortega)
- April 28, Bold Spring Flowers (Instructor: Cipriano Ortega)