Join us for an acrylic course with
the 55th annual summer show first place winner amber hart!
This 6-week workshop meets
Wednesday, june 3, 10, 17, 24, and july 1 & 8
from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Beginning Acrylic Painting is a course designed to teach artists the basics of acrylic painting through academic based exercises including glazing, wipe-out, and grisaille. In 6 weeks, artists will paint on paper with acrylic paints. This eliminates the pressure of working on costly surfaces such as canvas while supporting artists to let loose and make big moves in their work. Class will begin with painting in black and white to build a strong foundation for the following weeks. Amber will build still-lifes for the class with spotlights to heightened light and shadows. Amber will collects objects such as vibrant antiques, fruit from her garden, and home objects for the still-life compositions.
Week 1: Introduction - small paintings in black and white
Week 2: Grisaille - A painting technique using a monochromatic palette with shades of grey, sepia (brown), or neutral tones
Week 3: Wipe Out Technique - Paint is applied over the entire surface and then with the use of rags, paper towel, or a brush tipped in water (traditionally Gamsol for oil painting) to reveal a toned canvas underneath. It creates light, shadows, and texture with one application of paint
Week 4: Complimentary Color Painting and Glazing
Week 5: Build Your Own Object - Still-Life Collaboration
Week 6: Continue and Finish Still-Life Collaboration Painting
All Experience Levels Welcome!
Students are Responsible for Most Supplies
Ages 13 & Older
All supplies available at Mo’s Art Supply in Downtown Covington.
Classes located at 320 North Columbia Street in Downtown Covington!
About AMber
Amber Hart is a first-generation American born citizen from a Belizean family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1976. She grew up in rural landscapes as she moved back and forth over state lines throughout her childhood. The adverse lifestyle shaped behavioral tendencies such as seeking out constants in public and private spaces as a source of grounding. Those constants became objects of comfort being charged by psychological tension in her paintings. Hart credits the act of painting as a catharsis by applying her personal constants, plurality psychology and domestic livestock, to act as placeholders for the human psyche in malleable realities. It is a metaphor for the consciousness of a present state, which is for her the act of ruminating. The work has been shown nationally in Baton Rouge Gallery, Ogden Museum of Art, and Southern Mississippi Museum of Art and LeMieux Gallery. Hart was featured in Juxtapoz magazine in 2025 after being awarded 'Best in Show' by Evan Pricco at Baton Rouge's Gallery Annual Surreal Salon exhibition. She lives and works in Covington, Louisiana.