The program I offer is very personal, as I consider ones abilities, preferences, attitude in painting. But at the very beginning I offer everyone the same basic program.

Painting Classes in 2012:

Monday 7pm - 9.30pm (from March 2012)
Tuesday 10am - 12.30
Tuesday 7pm - 9.30pm

Painting Course for beginners:

1. - color mixing, theory of colors

This first itroductory class we learn what we need to know about oil paint and color:
As we start a painting course, we have to start from the very begining – the mixing of colors. I introduce researches on colors by Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. This first itroductory class is a lot of fun - we learn the three basic colors, the mixing of colors, complementary colors, softening and emphasizing colors. We study the relation between colors and non-colors, also the importance of the grey, and importance of matching the colors. At the same time we learn why Goethe were so important in defining „color theory”.

We use 3 basic colors at this very first class: cadmium yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue.

2. – color sequence in warm harmony

We learn how to abstract the colors we see in reality.

We try to represent colors we see in reality – we study an installation of warm colored draperies that will be our guide in our first composition.  We enlarge our palette, and use about 7-8 colors as: cadmium yellow, cadmium red, yellow occre, burnt umber, titanium white, alizarin chramoise, cobalt blue, ultramarin blue.

3. – color sequence in cold harmony

We learn how to abstract cold colors after an installation of cold colored draperies. Very similar to the 2nd class, a bit more attention to our composition. We enlarge our palette with: paris blue, ice blue, chromoxid green fiery

4. – composition

We learn how to compose our painting. I demonstrate old time tooles for composing a painting dated back to the early Renaissance.

We are preparing a one color painting after a simple still life installation, and we merely study composing. We learn how to represent forms we see, how to search the negative and positive forms, how to find good proportions. This is the very first step towards visual observation. We learn how to use different tools to do our best in composing.

5. – tonality

We create a one color painting after reality, and translate colors we see into tones: dark and light and all in between. This class is very important for further steps as we learn how to translate the world we see into a new language. We work after a still life installation.

6. – still life – full color painting

We put together what we know, and we make a full color composition after reality.

Prices:

1 Single Class: 5500 HUF/ 20 EUR
6 Class Pass: 27.000 HUF / 100 EUR (4500 HUF/ class)
Monthly Unlimited 20.000 HUF/ 75 EUR

Contact
Márta: +36 20 570 7724
By e-mail

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