Cabrillo Extension: Art Making as Choreography
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Welcome to Art Making as Choreography: A Mixed Media Process Painting Workshop. I’m looking forward to
seeing what happens as we move, paint and draw and explore new territory together. I hope this experience
will invigorate your creative process and leave you with new pathways to create really alive art.
Please wear comfortable clothes for moving and for painting and drawing in. In the first half of the day we
will alternate between group activities and personal work in your sketchbook.
Bring at least one high quality sketchbook for both wet and dry media that is 9” x 9” or larger. Large is good!
(It can be a rectangle or square format). I suggest Super Deluxe by Bee Paper Company - or Stillman and Birn
sketchbooks but any smooth paper that can take water media will work. A watercolor pad will also be fine.
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Pencils hb, 2b 4b 8b — thin to wide- (A selection is fine)
“Stabilo” Pencil /Aquarellable in either graphite color or black (water-soluble)
Water-soluble colored pencils and/or crayons
Carbon
India ink
Charcoal
A few tubes of water color or gauche - can be cheap
Paint brushes small to large — bring at least one liner brush
Fluid Matte Medium (I suggest Golden Acrylic) small to large bottle
In the second half of the day the emphasis will be on your personal work. I will encourage you to work in a
style that is fast, sensuous and impulsive so you may cover a lot of surface area.
I’m asking you to use quality paper so that you can paint and draw in many layers.
Please also bring the following media:
Quality paper eg. 2 pieces of Arches 140 # or 300# water color paper and/or 2 canvases. If you are working
on paper - bring a large board or clipboard so you can stand at the easel and work. The size
should be at least 12 x 12 and can be very large. Note: You can choose to work in multiples on smaller
surfaces. (Yes, I will encourage you to work on at least two pieces simultaneously!) You are also welcome to
bring some work that you may have already started to add to and to possibly paint over.
Also bring a selection of supplies such as the following:
• Golden Open Acrylic paints - and/or Fluid paints try to have at least 5 colors minimum (small tubes are
fine):
• Cadmium Red Light, Hansa Yellow Medium or Indian Yellow Hue, Manganese Blue or Ultramarine Blue,
Alizarin Crimson Hue, Van Dyke Brown Hue, Titan Buff, Zinc White, Bone Ultramarine Black.
• Watercolor or gouache paints
• Rags, sponges,
• Palette knife
• Small bottle Matte Medium polymer
• Assortment of found papers (tissue paper, wrapping paper, rice paper, old maps, etc)
• String, Needles and thread
• Seeds, flower petals …
• Scissors and/or xacto knife
• Glue stick
• Archival glue
• Masking or Transparent tape
• Chalk pastels, Oil pastels
• Black and white gesso
• Gel Medium,
• Matte Medium
• Big, cheap brush for washes and gesso
• Plates and cups for palettes Palace Lenz
You may purchase these supplies at Palace Arts, Lenz Arts or Dick Blick Artist Supply also has most of these
things and can deliver directly to your home.
There is no food service on the weekends, so you should bring a lunch or plan to go out (there are a few
good options close to Cabrillo).
For questions about class information contact the Cabrillo Extension office. You are welcome to email me at
anrew@andrewpurchin.com with questions regarding class content. Please use Cabrillo in the subject line
and note that I will be traveling, including making art at the political conventions, from July 16 - August
2nd. It might take me a while to get back to you. You can look at the project page on my website
andrewpurchin.com for info on what I’m up to at the conventions.
Thanks for your attention to this!
Yours in the beauty of it all,
Andrew