Unleash Your Creativity: Acrylic Painting Class

Join our acrylic painting class and unleash your creativity! This class is perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike. You’ll learn essential techniques, such as color mixing, brushwork, and layering, while creating your own vibrant masterpiece. Our step-by-step instruction ensures a fun and supportive environment where you can explore your artistic potential. Bring your own acrylic paints and brushes and enjoy a relaxing, inspiring experience.

Materials you must bring to class:

• Acrylic Paints: A basic set of primary colors (red, blue, yellow), plus black and white. You may expand with secondary colors (green, orange, purple) and some earth tones (brown, sienna).
• Brushes: A variety of brush sizes and shapes, including flat, round, and detail brushes. Synthetic brushes are suitable for acrylics.
• Palette: A palette for mixing your paints. A plastic or glass palette is ideal, but a disposable paper palette also works.
• Canvas or Painting Surface: Stretched canvas, canvas boards, or canvas paper. For beginners, canvas boards or paper are usually more economical.
• Palette Knife: For mixing paints and creating texture on your painting.
• Water Container: A container for rinsing your brushes.
• Cloths/Paper Towels: For cleaning brushes and wiping up spills.
• Apron/Old Clothes: Acrylic paint can be hard to remove from fabric once dry, so wear something you don't mind getting messy.
• Spray Bottle: To keep your paints moist on the palette.
• Pencil and Eraser: For sketching your initial design on the canvas.
• Storage Box/Bag: To keep all your supplies organized and easy to transport.

Optional materials:

• Easel: A tabletop easel if you prefer to paint at an angle, though this is optional and depends on your comfort.
• Mixing Mediums: Optional, but you might want to have some acrylic mediums like gloss medium, matte medium, or modeling paste to experiment with different textures and finishes.

Instructor: Edom Alagaw. Class size: 6-12 participants. Register by March 10.

Artwork Credit: Edom Alagaw

Refund Policy

• If a workshop does not reach the minimum number of students within 3 days of the workshop, it may be cancelled at the instructor’s discretion. If you are already registered (and have paid) for a workshop that is cancelled, your whole registration amount will be refunded.
• If you request to withdraw from a workshop 72 hours or more before the day of the workshop, Del Ray Artisans will refund the Workshop Fee and any Supply Fee minus a 15% processing fee.
• No refunds will be provided for cancellations less than 72 hours before the day of the workshop.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Del Ray Artisans, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, United States