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General Painting- Landscapes, Still life, Portraits_ Afsaneh Michaels_ March 4 – April 15_ Tues 9:30-12:30 pm_ Studio 1

General Painting- Landscapes, Still life, Portraits, Abstracts. with sketches, photos, concepts….

Beginner to advanced

 March 4 – April 15, 2025

Tuesday 9:30-12:30 pm

This painting course starts you with detailed introduction of materials from brushes to  colors and helps you understand the painting process from beginning to end. You’ll learn about preparing the painting surface, composition, sketching your subject, color theory and the use of color, paint-handling, how brushes work as well the basics: form, line weight, volume and shading with paint. You will have at least one or two completed paintings at the end of the class.

Intermediate and advanced artists may paint two or three paintings and use more advanced techniques.

A variety of color mediums including acrylics, oils, or water soluble oil colors can be used. Watercolorists: Please join if you already know how to use your medium.

Come with your existing setup with colors, brushes, pencils, and other tools plus your

sketchbook and canvas. The first class will include a discussion of materials and supports (canvas, paper or boards). For questions please email the instructor.

 

Instructor: Afsaneh Michaels, AfsanehAm@gmail.com  415. 533. 0491

March 4 – April 15, 2025

Tuesday 9:30-12:30 pm

Cost: $205.00 residents, non-residents $225.00

Place: Studio 1

Number of Students: 12

Materials: Your medium of choice and your setup plus your sketchbook and a canvas or a support of your choice. For more information about colors and brush and other painting materials please email the instructor

Afsaneh Michaels, Instructor

Afsaneh A. Michaels is San Francisco Bay Area fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher with over 30 years of creative experience.Afsaneh was raised from an early age in Europe and the U.S. She studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. After Edinburgh, Afsaneh over to Florence Italy where she studded drawing and painting. She has exhibited work in galleries around the Bay Area, and the east coast.In the early part of her career Afsaneh worked as an urban and country planner with the United Nations in Africa in Kenya and Malawi and later transitioned into art and exhibit design and worked at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi where she designed an exhibit for anthropologist, Richard Leakey. Later she worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Designing exhibits and collaborating with colleagues in various International museums.Afsaneh has always been an artist and after Edinburgh she moved to Florence in Italy where she started teaching small groups of adults and children in painting and drawing. Afsaneh loves to teach and uses a coaching style- mentoring each individual, guiding and developing their vision and direction while building foundational skills towards the student’s art practice. www.AfsanehMichaelStudio.com