Intro to Painting With Acrylics- Everything you Need to Know to Get Started with Dianne Legro

This 5 week course is a fun Paint-Along-and-Learn art class for beginning adult painters with teacher Dianne Legro. Everything you need to know to get started will be introduced along with easy steps to get you started painting with ease and confidence right away. You will learn about the materials and tools you will need to get started, the types of paints canvas surfaces available, sketching your  thumbnail outline, color mixing and color harmony, composing a painting, brush work and the 4 steps to start any painting. 

About the Instructor: Dianne Legro

Dianne is a lifelong teaching artist nationally and internationally who teaches privately, she also enjoys teaching  “Painting Canvas Masterpieces” to children at Inly School.  This Fall we welcome Dianne to our faculty at North River Arts Society. 

Materials And Supplies List

• Paint Brushes - 1”flat, #6 or #8 filbert, a #4 round and fan brush. Bring any other brushes you have. 
• Paints - Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cad. Red Medium, Utramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Burnt Umber, Alizarin Crimson.  Please bring what you have as well. 
• Surfaces - 8x10 canvas panel and 9x12 canvas panels 
• Extras needed - Paper towels, water container, apron, palate knife, tape, pencil