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"Acrylics or Oil: Making Your Mark with Palette Knife and Impasto Texture" with Alex Sharma (March, 2025)



ACRYLICS OR OILS:
Making your Mark with Palette Knife
and Impasto Texture

with Alex Sharma
 

WHEN: 
2 HALF-DAYS
Monday & Tuesday (1 to 4pm)

March 10, 11, 2025

WHERE: 
Art League Academy
(106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Island, SC)
 
 

This is your opportunity to learn how to use various shape palette knives and a paint-loaded brush to obtain texture and glassy smoothness in your paintings. Be prepared to paint along with Alex as she demonstrates palette knife and sgraffito techniques for various subjects: sky, water, trees, flowers and marsh. 

 

The first day focus will be to practice mixing and layering and getting comfortable using the palette knife to really get your shapes and forms to come to life.

 

During day two, we will paint from life in the studio and from your reference photos or your imagination. The objective is to capture the spirit of the composition’s colors and textures through simple use of palette knife and loaded brush. 

We will have a 30-minute break for lunch, bring your lunch or grab something quick from a nearby cafe.

 

SKILL LEVEL:
This course is developed for intermediate and advanced oil/acrylic painters.

REFUND POLICY:
Ticket purchases to Art League of Hilton Head events are final. Refunds will not be given for missed or classes/workshops.
 

If a class or workshop is canceled by Art League of Hilton Head a full refund will be given.


Skill Level: Intermediate
Skill Details: Join us for this exciting 2 Half-Day Workshop designed for intermediate and advanced level oil and acrylic painters!
Materials Included: No materials are included in this class. A list of materials you should bring with you will be provided upon registration.
Requirements: Download a Printable Supply List

PLEASE BRING

PAINTS:
PAINTS (oil or acrylic)
(Brands include: Windsor Newton (Winton), Grumbacher, Golden, Liquitex, etc.)
You want heavy based paints, as you won't be able to achieve what you want with craft/liquid paints.


9 BASIC COLORS:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Red Middle
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue (or Cobalt)
Phthalo Cerulean Blue
Sap Green
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna

NOTE: You may have other colors as well; bring what you have.


BRUSHES and KNIVES

3/4 inch flat or filbert: synthetic bristle or combination natural and synthetic for oil/acrylic painting.

#8 round (or size of your choice)

2 trowel-handled palette knives (pick 2 different blade shapes and sizes - 1 small; 1 large)

NOTE: Please bring a palette for laying out and mixing colors (such as a piece of board or foam board approx. size: 10"x12"), rags or paper towels for clean up, and a lidded jar to hold mineral spirits or water for clean up.


SUPPORTS

The following are appropriate supports for oils or acrylics: Fredrix - or other-- canvas panels that come in a variety of sizes, stretched canvas, or Masonite sanded and primed with gesso. Heavy weight paper and mat board painted with gesso are also suitable for acrylics and oils.

INTERNET ART SUPPLIERS:
1.Dick Blick Art Supplies
2.Jerry's Art-a-Rama
3.Cheap Joe's Art Supplies



QUESTIONS?:
Please Email:
Academy@artleaguehhi.org.
Instructor: Alex Sharma
Instructor Bio:
Born into a family of artists, ALEXANDRA SHARMA learned early a unique awareness of form and space that is manifest in her work. A painter, print maker, sculptor, and art professor, Alexandra has a Fine Arts degree and has studied at the Sorbonne, France, and Oxford University, England. Her work spans over twenty-five years and she is known for unique visual imagery in her paintings and her ability to capture the moment as she works primarily en plein air.

Alexandra is a founding member of the Multi Media Arts Guild, Kingston, Canada, and member of Hilton Head Art League, Apple Pie Painters, Northview Group of Artists, and a lifetime member of the American art honorary, Delta Phi Delta.

Alexandra exhibits regularly at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort, SC and at ALHH Gallery.
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