Painting for Real Beginners with Jose Luis Nunez
January 4, 2025 - January 5, 2025
Community Resource Center
587 Palm Canyon Dr
Borrego Springs, CA. 92004
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Member: $125
Non-member $140
Enjoy the beauty of painting during these two sessions that are designed for beginning lovers of artistic painting. At the end of these sessions the participants will know about the wide variety of materials and tools available to the artistic painter and will understand the fundamental theory and practice of the main painting topics.
Jose will perform a demo and participants will work on their own painting following the same model. At the end of the sessions, every participant will have done a painting.
Here’s the materials list so that each participant can bring what is needed. You are welcomed to work with oils, acrylics, or watercolors. Please choose only one medium.
This is our plan for the two sessions:
1. GETTING STARTED
1.1 Surface preparation
1.2 Painting materials
1.3 The color chart
1.4 Handling paint
2. MAIN CONCEPTS
2.1 Composition
2.2 Values
2.3 Colors
3. PAINTING:
3.1 Block-in
3.2 Alla Prima, layers
3.3 Grisalle
3.4 Impasto, texture
3.5 Final varnish
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Jose Luis Nunez is an artistic painter that enjoys color and the vibrations of light and shade. Color means life and radiant plenitude in his paintings. He usually paints with oils because they allow him to use thick layers of paint and to leave traces of brush strokes. California and the American Southwest deeply resonate in his soul and, therefore, have been a source of inspiration for his landscape paintings.
Born in Mexico City, José Luis began painting at the age of thirteen. He studied Art and Philosophy in Spain, Italy and Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. He did graduate studies in Painting and Metal Engraving at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (San Carlos Art Academy).
His paintings have been acquired by collectors of many countries. He has had more than 50 exhibits, including individual and group shows in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and Mexico which makes him truly an international artist. He is also an avid plein air painter that has taken part in the Grand Canyon Celebration of Art since 2020 and in other plein air events in the country, like the Borrego Art Institute 2022 Plein Air invitational.
Jose Luis currently resides in San Diego, CA.
For more information visit: www.joseluisnunez.com
Min: 4, Max: 8