Mondays, March 31, 2025 - Apr 28, 2025 (No class on the 21st) (4 weeks)
10:30am-12:30pm
$125 + $25 Materials fee
Join us in an open and creative space where we will explore and experiment with a variety of ways to create unique and interesting textures in your acrylic mixed media paintings. We will use a variety of acrylic mediums, fabric, ink, pastel, pencil, pens, rice paper, sand and more. Add depth and visual interested in your paintings with dimensional textures using materials like molding paste and sand.
Learn how to incorporate interesting collage materials like fabric, rice paper and vintage paper. One of the advantages of acrylic paint is its ability to be layered and to be easily combined with other mediums. We will learn how to use ink and layer with pens and oil pastels and how to blend with chalk pastels.
About the Instructor: Amanda Rose Hopkins received her B.F.A from UC Santa Cruz with a concentration in painting and environmental art. Locally she has creatively taught children at Sunridge and REACH Charter schools. She spent 5 months studying under artist Kaveri Singh and Thangka painters from Nepal and Sikkim at the Sarnath International Nyingma Institute in India. Her work is currently focused on highlighting the sensuous texture and environmental importance of the kelp forests. You can view her work at https://artofnature.me/