Noncredit Course
Oil/Acrylic Painting on Location
Event ID: P09649
Info: May 17-Aug 2 • Sat • 9:00am-12:00pm • 12 mtgs • First class meets at Ala Moana Beach Park, 1201 Ala Moana Blvd (on the Magic Island end, by the first lifeguard stand) • $150 (Beginners), $125 (Repeat students) • Painting demonstration begins at 8:00am. New students: check course online listing or call 956-8244 for supply list
With: Mark Brown
Let island scenery inspire you. Paint as a group at O`ahu`s beaches, mountains, and parks. Come prepared to paint at the first meeting, when later locations are announced. Students show their work in a group art show at the end of class, time and place to be determined. Course covers basic acrylic or oil painting for beginning to advanced students. Students provide their own transportation to painting locations.
Recommended art supplies:
- Portable French style easel
- Flat brushes: #4, 8, 12
- Brushes: size #14 and 16
- 2" brushes (available at City Mill, Ace, Home Depot, etc. for ~$1.19)
- Oil or acrylic paint, a limited palette of colors to start:
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Red Light
- Alizarin Crimson
- Ultramarine Blue
- Thalo Green
- Titanium White
- A couple of empty jars or containers for thinners or water
- Canvas or canvas board (size 16" x 20" or larger)
- Small sketchbook, approx. 6" x 8", to do composition sketches before painting
- One Shot Supplies at 815A Waiakamilo Road (841-7683)
- Hawaiian Graphics at 1923 South Beretania Street (973-7171)
- University of Hawai`i at the Manoa Campus Center Bookstore (956-6612)
- Lifeguard hat with a wide brim and drawstring to keep it on in strong wind
- Sunscreen
(Recommended: an inexpensive brand of paint, for example, Mameri. Of three grades, the Classico is a student grade, but good quality.)
Sources for art supplies:
Look for an ACMI seal (AP, CP, AP+PC, or Health Label or HL+Non-Toxic), signifying that the formula has been checked against both chronic (long term) and acute (immediate) toxicity, if you are concerned about toxic potential of paints.
Recommended additional supplies:
Mark N. Brown was born and raised in Hawai`i and has been painting plein air (outdoors) with UH Outreach College since 1993. His paintings, which are generated from these outdoor sessions, hang at various galleries on O`ahu, including Cedar Street Galleries, Robyn Buntin Galleries, Sunshine Art Gallery, Hale`iwa Art Gallery, and Bethel Street Gallery in downtown Honolulu.
Brown`s work has been featured in American Savings Bank`s 2000 and 2005 calendars; Aloha Airlines` calendars for 2002, 2003, and 2005; in a poster for the 2002 Hale`iwa Art Festival; and on the cover of Outreach College`s Winter-Spring 2003 catalog. His murals can be seen at Sunshine Art Gallery, Victoria Ward Warehouse, DFS Galleria Waikiki, the All-Star Cafe in Waikiki, and most recently at the City & County of Honolulu Waipio Gentry Aquatic Center.
A children`s book entitled Duke`s Olympic Feet, published by Island Heritage, carries 40 of Brown`s illustrations of Duke Kahanamoku. The Pacific Beach Hotel of Waik_k_ commissioned him to paint a series of oil paintings to be reproduced as serigraph prints for all 800 of its guest rooms. Brown was selected from O`ahu for a national "paintout" competition held in San Luis Obispo in 2004 by the Islanders Plein Air Group, which names one person per island to represent Hawai`i.