Welcome to my Art Classes Blog

 

WELCOME
Hello, and welcome to Judy Burgarella's Art Classes blog.  This blog was created for my current students and possible future students, however it may evolve into more of a teaching tool in the future.  For your viewing enjoyment, be sure to visit my YouTube video of painting a portrait in oil of my friend and colleague Bob Barbour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLf7ACVaJk . Bob filmed the time-lapse video, and also filmed the videotaped the six portrait sessions I did for the Sebastian River Art Club, which can be found online by Googling "Judy Burgarella."

First of all, congratulations to those of you newbies taking the first step into a world of color, beauty, adventure and constant learning.  As you open this new chapter of your life you will notice an increased awareness of the beauty and colors all around you, and you will find yourself looking to have more time to create works of art for your personal satisfaction, psyche and health.  Picking up a brush and applying pigment to canvas just feels good.  And it is a never-ending learning process, one which has a limitless variety of styles, mediums and subject matter, and provides opportunities to meet new and interesting people to whom you will soon have much in common.


I bring to the classroom years of experience in drawing, painting, teaching, demonstrating, lecturing and writing, in addition to showing my work in hundreds of art exhibitions, juried shows, galleries and museums, and organizing and promoting many shows myself.  My work resides in private, public and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad, and has received numerous awards.  I am available for painting/drawing demonstrations, in the medium and subject of your choice.  My teaching skills include: drawing in pencil, charcoal, pastels; painting in oils (including water-soluble oils), acrylics, watercolor, gouache; and sculpture in clay.

VENUES

I am available for private single and group art classes, workshops and demonstrations:
       Private art classes:  $40 per hour, minimum of 2-1/2 hours
       Workshops: Call for more information
       Demonstrations:  Call for price quote and availability

Current ongoing classes are:

VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
"Open Studio"
Vero Beach Museum of Art, 3001 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, just off the Barber Bridge
Five Mondays each semester (except summer semester), 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Call VBMA at 772-231-0707, or call me at 772-581-8281.

Some painting experience is suggested, with students bringing their own supplies and image to work from. Students are welcome to bring something they are working with, or having trouble with, or just wish to bump up the quality of their artwork.

NOTE: If you are starting a new work and plan on tracing, please have your image photocopied in the right size for your substrate to use when you trace.  It's nice to have your enlargement in both black and white (for tracing), and in color to see more detail.  Please do not bring in a small, faded damaged image, unless that is all you have.

Below is a suggested list of paints and supplies, which I commonly use, but you can bring whatever you have on hand and we will work with that.

ACRYLIC PAINTS (Oils are permissible also)

Any good brand such as Liquitex Heavy Body (do not get Basics), Grumbacher, Windsor and Newton, Golden (tubes), Utrecht, Holbein
Note: The cheaper the paint, the more binder and less pigment, and the more color shifting.  Cheaper paints tend to be more transparent and dry considerably darker in color.  Less dependable.  If you are a newbe, just buy a set of small inexpensive tubes to start off with, to see if this medium is something you would like to pursue.  Otherwise, buy the best you can afford, and If you plan to purchase paints, I  suggest you buy the colors I have asterisked below as being essential to start off with.
*Titanium white, Lemon yellow, Cadmium Yellow, *Cadmium Yellow Medium, *Yellow ochre, *Cadmium orange, *Cadmium red light, Cadmium red medium, *Alizarin crimson, *Dioxazine Purple, *Ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, phthalo blue, *prussian blue, *sap green (or Hookers green  if you can't find Sap), Viridian green, Olive green, *Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, *Raw Umber, *Ivory Black, Paynes Gray.

BRUSHES
"Scholastic" or "Student Grade" brushes are lesser quality.  It is best to go to the craft store and pick your brushes out, making sure the springback is sufficient, and bristles are not too soft.  Purchase what you can afford.  Dependable brands are: Liquitex, Grumbacher, Windsor and Newton, Princeton, Simply Simmons, Rosemary's Brushes.

Round 0, 1, 3, 5, 8. Flat 4, 8, 10. Filbert 2, 6, 8, Bright 3, 5, 7.  Fan brush and liner brush.  Bristles need to have a good firm spring-back in order to push the acrylic paints around.  Or bring what you have and you will soon see what you need.

SUPPLIES FOR ACRYLICS
Canvas -
    11" x 14", 12" x 16" or 16" x 20" are common sizes of canvas boards or stretched canvas
Stay-Wet palette, or palette of your choice for acrylics.  3 large plastic or foam dishes will do, one for paints, one for mixing and one for taping on top of your paint to bring home.  Please do not bring in paper plates.
*Container for water (no paper cups please)
Palette knife approx. 1-1/4" blade preferred
Roll of paper towels
Q-tips
*Small spray bottle (small-can be purchased at the Dollar Tree)
Vine charcoal or pencil for drawing
Rags (cotton or T-shirt material.  No terrycloth please)
*Paint extender or retarder if desired. Optional.
Trash bag

SUPPLIES FOR OILS
All of the above except *.  Add:
Linseed oil
Odorless turpenoid (NOT Turpenoid Natural)
Liquin (paint additive that speeds up drying and makes paint more spreadable
3 metal palette cups (to use for oil, turp and Liquin)
Stay-wet palette can also be used for oils if you use freezer paper as a palette. I tape freezer paper to a square palette that fits snugly inside.

Brushes: bristle brushes are great, but anything with a good spring-back will do.  No really soft brushes as they cannot push the oil paint around.  #1, 3,  6, 8 rounds, 2, 4, 6, 8 flats, 2, 4, 6 brights, a fan brush and liner brush.


Water-soluble oils: Supplies are the same as above, except water-based linseed oil (optional), water container.


GENERAL SUPPLIES FOR ALL MEDIUMS

  • Painting Surface (canvas boards or stretched canvas for oils or acrylics, W/C paper for watercolor--300 lb. rough is best)
  • Suggested brushes - #1, 3, 6, 8 rounds.  #2, 4, 6, 8 flats, 2, 6 8 filbert, 3, 5, 7 Bright.  Fan brush and liner brush
  • Painting mediums - Water for acrylic and watercolor, Turpenoid and linseed oil for oils, and container to put them in.
  • Palette
  • Rags (cotton or T-shirt material. No terrycloth please)
  • Roll of paper towels
  • Easel (an easel is provided for you at the VBMA)
  • Apron if needed
  • Note paper and pen
  • Graphite paper (if tracing)
  • Vine charcoal (or pencil if drawing free-hand)
  • Palette knife (not needed for watercolor)
  • Spray bottle for watercolor or acrylic
  • Q-tips
  • Trash bag (for your own debris)
  • Water container for acrylic or oil (no paper cups please)

If you bring your own image to paint from, be sure it is not too small to see detail, is clear and colors are crisp.  It is best if you have a large copy made on glossy photo paper.  If you plan to trace your image, bring a black and white copy in the size you need so that you do not have to use your original image to trace with. Tracing lines will obliterate the fine detail of your original.

    See my my portrait blog www.burgarellaportraits.blogspot.com or www.artbyburgarella.blogspot.com for samples of my artwork. To view my mural work, visit www.verobeachmural.blogspot.com and www.stsebastianriverpainting.blogspot.com and www.orcamural.blogspot.com

    It is my mission to spread the joy of painting and to share all the positive aspects of creating and enjoying art.  If you are reading this and have any reservations whether or not to "jump in" and pick up a paintbrush, please call me at 772-581-8281 or 772-584-9169 and I will help you through the process of making the right decision, one which will give you pleasure for the rest of your life.

    Regards,
    Judy Burgarella - 772-581-8281, www.judithburgarella@gmail.com
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