Online Workshop: Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting

Description

Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up!” workshop nurtures individual success and personal enrichment with a big emphasis on daily painting projects at your own pace. It is stress-free, but be warned; you could end up with too much enthusiasm for painting. This Burridge flagship workshop offers a variety of painting subjects for everyone. Designed for the professional painter who is stuck in a style as well as for the novice who wants to conquer their fear of painting.

Bob’s positive approach towards the act of painting will inspire you to loosen up, have fun again and paint more! Unique color combination techniques will also be demonstrated. Expect an intense, concentrated and lively workshop where you will create many works of art using spontaneity for maximum effect. This workshop has become a must for artists who want the confidence and permission to paint the way they have always wanted to paint. A positive attitude is a must!

Enrolled students will receive substantial notes of useful and need-to-know information in a handy PDF format.

Note: This course will be delivered via Zoom online meeting platform. You will receive Zoom meeting invitations for each daily demonstration and for individual consults.

We will start each day with demonstrations of small “warm-up painting exercises” that lead to larger-format paintings. We’ll engage in discussion and students will be able to ask questions via the zoom chat feature. Kate Burridge will be assisting Bob in his studio monitoring questions as the demonstrations are taking place. Each afternoon students will spend time working on larger, and more involved paintings in the comfort of your home studio.

There will be ample individual attention consisting of daily 1:1 personal meetings. Students have the option of listening in to these individual critique sessions while they paint or just painting on their own. At the conclusion of each day, students have the option to tune into 1-hour of Q&A with the instructor, talk to their cohorts, and share painting updates.

Registrants will receive a more detailed daily schedule closer to the workshop with individual meetings scheduled with each student.

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Robert Burridge

In 1985 Robert Burridge turned his passion into his second career. He retired from industrial design and became a full time, contemporary fine art painter, moved to California’s Central Coast and prepared to paint the rest of his life. Today, besides painting, he is an invited juror for international art shows, a college and national painting workshop instructor, and teachs a fine art mentor program in central France. Recently selected as the Honorary President of the International Society of Acrylic Painters, he holds a signature membership with them and with the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.

His original paintings can be seen in six international galleries, on Starbucks Coffee mugs, Pearl Vodka bottles, eight tapestries and on fine art edition prints in upscale retail stores and cruise ships.

His work has received lifetime honors, including The Franklin Mint Award and recently the Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s prestigious Crest Medal Award for achievement in the arts previously awarded to Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent and Georgia O’Keeffe.

It is said, “Your heart doesn’t know how old you are.” For me, it’s true. Painting everyday in my small studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I feel like a kid again playing with color, design, paint and canvas, which reminds me of the saying, “It’s never too late to be what you always should have been.” Follow your bliss!

Suggested Materials List

This is only a suggested materials list. Do not feel obligated to purchase everything on this list. Purchase what you think you will need and use.

1) Paints: Any professional-grade acrylic paint (no cheap, student grade paints). Your choice of colors.

Burridge will be painting with Holbein Artist Acrylic paint – colors to match his Goof-Proof Color Wheel, plus black and white.

Pyrrole Red Light •Marigold
Hansa Yellow •Colbalt Blue
Cad Green Deep •Compose Blue #1
Ultramarine Deep •Lamp Black
Primary Magenta •Titanium White
Luminous Opera

Holbein paints available at Vermont Art Supply. (800) 790-2552 or www.VermontArtSupply.com Ask for John Bates. (He knows Bob’s 9 favorite colors, plus the Hot Pink Opera – also black and Titanium White.)

Note: “Color Comparison Chart” for other professional paint brands available on his website – www.RobertBurridge.com

2) Brushes: Acrylic/Blend combos, 1” Flat. Several 2” brushes. NO FOAM BRUSHES OR TINY BRUSHES. Also bring a 2” soft brush for varnishing with acrylic varnish.

3) For cleaning brushes: Murphys Oil Soap, “Original Formula.” (grocery & hardware stores) You will use this daily, after the workshop.

4) Surfaces: Large Watercolor Paper Sketch Pads, 18×24 inch or 15×20 inch. You can also use full sheets of watercolor paper, 140 lb or 300 lb. CP. Per day you may need up to 2 full sheets (22×30 inches). Bob will use Kilimanjaro Watercolor Paper, 22×30 inches, 300 lb CP.

Optional: Also, small pre-gessoed canvases – as many per day as you want. (should fit on your painting table) No large canvases.

5) One pint of thick white professional acrylic gesso. Used as both gesso and white paint. Bob uses Utrecht’s Professional Gesso —it’s thicker than most. Available from DickBlick.com

6) Glue for Collage Work: Polymer Gel Medium – gloss. Bob uses Nova Color Gel Medium #207. Also bring a 2” cheap brush for spreading the gel medium.

7) Final Coat: Brush-on water-based POLYMER VARNISH with UVLS for “sealing” all paintings… gloss, semi gloss or matte. Bob uses Minwax Polycrylic Water-Based from hardware store. (You will use this after the workshop.)

8) Small water container – such as a low, half gallon plastic bucket or a low 10×10 inch Tupperware-type container. (They don’t fall over)

9) Table covering – Clear 4ml plastic sheet, (Hardware Store) precut to 4 ft x 8 ft. Tape down with strong tape. (such as packing tape – no blue or green painters’ tape – not strong enough)

10) Roll of VIVA towels or similar.

12) Isopropyl (Rubbing) alcohol 70%-90%. (drug store)

13) Artist’s Sketchbook, smooth or Hot Press, spiral bound for easier note taking and smooth sketching.

14) Hand Barrier cream or Nitrile gloves.

Bob may also demo with some of these materials:

Derwent Water Soluble Drawing Pencil, very dark
Derwent Inktense Color Pencils or Inktense Blocks
Holbein Acrylic Inks

updated 12/20 – Online Workshop

Cancellation Policy

Registration

Each student must enroll individually
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Administrative Offices in the Art Barn, toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 928-282-3809
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours at the Art Barn

In-Person and Online Workshops

A student may pay in full or place a $125 non-refundable deposit to save a space in the workshop
Any unpaid balance is due at least 30 days prior to first day of class
If a student cancels before the 30-day cut-off, the balance is refunded (or cancelled if not already paid) – the deposit is non-refundable
If a student cancels within the 30-days prior to class, no refund is given and both deposit and balance are forfeited
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full

Important Message

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.