Jeannine Savedra, Instructor
Wednesday, June 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Monrovia Community Center, 119 W. Palm Ave, Monrovia
Admission is free but you must register no later than Monday, June 22.
What You Will Learn
For this demonstration Jeannine will provide reference materials and images to be used for inspiration.
We will begin this art lesson with a little bit of drawing by lightly sketching in the tree composition on canvas or paper. She will demonstrate how to simplify the image using basic shapes and contour lines to create a silhouette of the oak tree with reference to a foreground, middle ground, and background of a landscape composition.
Jeannine will present the demonstration with oil paints using a very basic color palette of yellow, orange, red, blue, green and white to mix a variety of colors such as lights and darks, bright and subdued, and warm and cool mixtures to create a sense of mood, drama and dimension. She will be painting on a canvas approximately 9” x 12” and will use a couple of medium-sized bristle brushes, and a small brush for a few details at the end. She may also use a palette knife to mix the paint and use it to create textures.
The lesson can be done in oil or acrylic paints as well as watercolors, pastels and colored pencil. Jeannine encourages participants to work in an art medium they are comfortable with. The reference material and images will be available to take home to complete at a later time if unable to finish during the workshop. In addition, Jeannine will have some extra brushes, paints and pastels so all can participate.
What to Bring With You
A 9” x 12” canvas
Suggested: medium-sized bristle brushes, your preferred type of paint in yellow, orange, red, blue, green and white.
As mentioned above, Jeannine will have extra brushes, paints and pastels so all can participate.
Instructor Bio
Jeannine Savedra is an L.A. based painter, art instructor and restoration artist with over twenty five years of professional experience. She was born and raised in Los Angeles where she received formal art training at Otis Art Institute, Parsons School of Design and California State University. She studied Fine Arts and earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree and obtained a Teaching Credential in Art. Throughout the many years of working as a studio painter and restoration artist Jeannine has garnered a comprehensive knowledge and versatility with color, brushwork and style that distinguishes her approach to painting. Presently, she spends much of her time painting outdoors and in the studio, where she is often restoring a work of art or putting the final touches on a painting for an upcoming exhibition. Her inspiration for painting is often found outdoors, where she finds endless compositions to paint and countless color combinations to interpret. Her passion is to recreate the surrounding landscape into works filled with light, color, texture and form. www.jeanninesavedra.com
