Advanced Painting: Savvy Use of Color with Carol Rubin

Advanced Painting: Savvy Use of Color with Carol Rubin

Class | Available

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Room 3A
Advanced
9/25/2025-12/4/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Th
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$525.00

Advanced Painting: Savvy Use of Color with Carol Rubin

Class | Available

This advanced painting class is for those who have developed a competency with painting including use of color, value, drawing, and composition.  We will take off from there, pushing your practice in a direction that reflects who you are as an artist and what you want to say.  You will work to find your voice, to paint your own perception of a variety of classic as well as original stimuli while reinforcing a strong grounding in elements of visual communication.


This semester, we will be taking a closer look at the components of color and their ability to communicate. Where do you naturally hang out within the color spectrum, how do you push those colors to resonate, and what may you be missing out on?  Within that arena we will also consider gestural mark making, developing space and other advanced concepts, depending on the needs of the group.  We will work on projects lasting multiple weeks to allow students to thoroughly develop their work through layering, shifting and editing and reconsidering.

  • WSS is closed the week of Thanksgiving, all classes will conclude the first week of December.

  •  Materials List - These are the materials you will need to bring with you for this class.

    Paint:

    You are welcome to bring in colors you are used to using, but please make sure you have these basic colors.  

    Titanium White – a large tube, 150ml

    Alizarin Crimson 37ml

    Cadmium Red Light 37ml

    Yellow Ochre 37ml

    Cadmium Yellow Medium 37ml

    Naples Yellow 37ml

    Lemon Yellow OR Cadmium Yellow Light 37ml

    Cerulean Blue 37ml

    Cobalt Blue 37ml

    French Ultramarine 37ml

    Sap Green 37ml

    Viridian 37ml

    Burnt Sienna 37ml

    Burnt Umber 37ml

    Raw Umber 37ml


    Optional Paint:

    Quinacridone Violet 

    Cadmium Orange 

    Napthol Red 

    Indian Yellow 

    Cobalt/Thalo/Radiant Turquoise

    Indigo


    Zinc White OR Transparent White 37ml (Optional/highly recommended)


    Suggested (though not required):

    R&F pigment oil stick R&F Pigment Sticks - Half Sticks, Set of 3, 19 ml sticks | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)


    Brushes:

    Rounds: Size 6,8,10

    Flats: 12, 16

    Brights 4,6,10

    Cheap hog hair brushes from hardware store, 2 inch, 3 inch

    Palette Knives- different shapes and sizes- at least one large

    Other mark making implements –  cheap rubber or silicon squeegees, large 1-3 inch “color shaper” tool,  old credit card.

     

    Mediums:

    Stand Oil 8oz

    Gamsol

    Safflower Oil (from market)

     

    Surfaces:

    Gamsol

    Safflower Oil (from market), or walnut oil or Linseed oil ( from art supply store).

     

    Misc.:                               

    PALETTE: 18X24 (or larger) piece of glass or acrylic.  Advanced painters should not be using a paper palette!  

    Notebook/Sketchbook

    Artist Tape/Blue Tape or Frog Tape

    Glass Jars with lids (minimum 3)

    PVA or other strong craft glue for collaging

    Heavy paper pad mixed media – 18x24 or larger

     

    Paper Towels - for personal use while painting

    Dish Soap - for personal use to clean brushes

     

    This link will take you to the Abstract Painting class materials on Blick, which uses the same materials as Advanced Painting.  If you do not want to stretch and prime your own canvas, you can buy pre-stretched and pre-primed canvases locally.  Plaza Art has decent canvases that will be on sale. 

    https://www.dickblick.com/lists/blicku/JF2H86GRRHPS5


Carol Rubin