“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” (Edgar Degas)
Painting Courses
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION AT 514-692-9809
The painting courses offered by La Salamandre Art Center provide you with the knowledge and techniques that will allow you to go through your personal projects.
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5:30 PM to 8:30 PM Painting Course : Acrylics - Forms and Function 1 - Autumn 2010 Sheldon Lawlor |
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7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Painting course- Texture of reality - faux fini on furniture and creation of a fake decorative fossil - Autumn 2010 Math Boylan |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Painting in Acrylic Course - Autumn 2010 Juan Aquino |
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Painting course- Texture of reality - faux fini on furniture and creation of a fake decorative fossil - Autumn 2010
- Objectives: Learn to reproduce rock textures, including marble, agate, granit, etc., wood finish such as mahogany and effects of abstract and impressionist pattern of flowers, vines, plants and leafs to apply on an old piece of furniture to enhance and rejuvinate it. Recreate the realist 3d effects of a fossil, through an organic rocky surface, using the knowledge of the 1st aspect of rocky textures in plaster poured in a mould of sand shaped like a fossil. The starting point to realize all the fossils will be images taken from books
- Requirement: Painting course accessible to all.
- Days: from September 28 to December 14 (12 sessions).
- Location of the course: 5334 de Gaspé in Montreal
- Materials included in the price: brushes and sponges, glaze, paint brushes, pigments tempera, varnish, plaster, water base epoxy to cover 400 square feet (providing a minimum of 10 registered students), papers, chunk of MDF, masonite and cardboard to practice, latex paint (2 litres per student).
- Price :$290 and $60 for the material, hence $350 material included.
- Schedule: Tuesday from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Art-Teacher(s): Math Boylan
Painting Course : Acrylics - Forms and Function 1 - Autumn 2010
- Objectives: This acrylic painting course provides you with the tools to acquire and/or improve your skills in painting through comprehensive studies in the fundamentals of painting: the various progressive techniques and effects from the opaque to transparent technique and explorations in texture/mixed media. Learn the essentials of painting through studies in the human form, and still nature while learning techniques used in traditional and contemporary painting.
- Materials: Students will be introduced to a wide range of acrylic materials and mixed media.
- Subjects: The human figure, still nature.
- Requirement: Painting class open to all levels, however skills in drawing are an asset.
- Language of the course: English
- Schedule: Wednesdays from 5:30 to 8:30 pm from September 22 to December 8
- Location of the course: 48 Notre Dame west in Montreal
- Price: $340, material not included (a list will be provided when you register)
- Schedule: Wednesday from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Art-Teacher(s): Sheldon Lawlor
Painting in Acrylic Course - Autumn 2010
- Objective: this painting course is designed to acquire technical knowledge and to develop creativity. Participating students will be motivated to dare personal interpretations in the pictorial organization as well as in techniques used.
- Mediums: acrylic paint.
- Subjects : still life, portrait, landscape.
- Requirement : The students registering in this painting course must have basic knowledge in drawing. Each student is followed individually according to its level.
- Schedule: from September 29 to December 15, 2010 (12 weeks)
- Location of the course: 305 Bellechasse street in Montreal
- Price: $340, materials are not included (you will receive a list of needed materials when you register)
- Schedule: Wednesday from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Art-Teacher(s): Juan Aquino
