Triton Online: Abstractions in Acrylics
Price
Member Pricing: $120 (6 Weeks), $140 (8 Weeks), $180 (10 Weeks)
Non-Member Pricing: $140 (6 Weeks), $160 (8 Weeks), $200 (10 Weeks)
Day Passes: $21 (Members), $24 (Non-Members)
Location
Online
Dates
Tuesday Evenings, 6:00-8:00PM; January 14 through March 18
Duration
6 weeks, 8 weeks, or 10 weeks
About the Course
Join us for our 5th year of the Triton Online Series, and for Jeff Bramschreiber’s 25th year of teaching for the museum! Students in this Acrylics class will explore different abstract techniques and styles with both representational and non-representational subjects and the use of a brush and a palette knife. For the first time, students will be able to select six, eight or ten week sessions, so don’t miss it! ALL levels welcome.
Schedule:
Week 1: 1/14 - Wet Color Drizzle Spatter “Scape”
Week 2: 1/21 - The Outer Planets (Minimalism)
Week 3: 1/28 - The Rose Garden (Cubism with Knife Painting)
Week 4: 2/4 - The Café (Expressionism)
Week 5: 2/11 - Land of Fae (Minimalism with Drizzle and Spatter)
Week 6: 2/18 - Coastal Hillsides (Impressionism)
Week 7: 2/25 - The Islands (Primitivism)
Week 8: 3 /4 - Brass Section (Cubism)
Week 9: 3/11 - “History Scapes” (Impressionism)
Week 10: 3/18 - Wild Lupine (Expressionism with Knife Painting)
Recommended Materials List:
6, 8, or 10 count of 11”x14” Canvas Panels or Stretched canvases or
6, 8, or 10 count of 16”x20” Canvas Panels or Stretched Canvases
Metal Palette/Painting Knives (At least three different sizes/shapes)
Palette Paper Pads or rigid “Peel Off” Plastic Palette.
5mm Mechanical Pencil with HB Lead or HB Pencils with Sharpener
White Vinyl Eraser and Tombow Mono-Zero Eraser
White All-Stabilo Pencils
18oz. Bottle of Satin Glazing Liquid (Golden)
Brushes (Either short or long handle depending whether you work from an easel or a table top easel)
Wet Ones Wipes, Paper Towels, Water Container.
Recommended Acrylic Colors:
Titanium White, Mixing or Zinc White
Titan Buff, Ivory or Mars Black
Paynes Grey
Raw Umber
Burnt Sienna
Raw Sienna
Sap Green
Permanent Green Light
Hooker’s Green
Phthalo Green
Chrome Oxide Green
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Permanent Light Blue
Yellow Green
Turquoise
Cobalt Blue
Cadmium Red Medium
Permanent Red
Alizarin Crimson
Dioxazine Violet
Deep Violet
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Naples yellow
Cadmium Orange
Portrait Pink
Manganese Blue (optional), Burnt Umber (optional), Cadmium Red Light
For a visual list of preferred materials on Amazon, email Jeff at bramschreiberjeff846@gmail.com
Questions? Please contact education@tritonmuseum.org
Your Instructor
Jeff Bramschreiber
Jeff Bramschreiber has been drawing and painting for over forty years, and while he is primarily a pastelist, he also frequently works in acrylic, watercolor, silverpoint, most dry media and even airbrush. His artworks hang in private collections throughout the United States and Europe and have received many awards.
A local art advocate, he has served as an art club president, (East Valley Artists and Santa Clara Art Association), as a juror with nearly fifty shows to his credit, as treasurer and lecturer for Silicon Valley Open Studios, as a demonstrator and lecturer for many of the Bay Area art clubs, colleges and museums.
Jeff also worked at University Art San Jose for 21 years before its closing in 2018 as an assistant Manager, Frame Designer, and Community Art Liaison. Mr. Bramschreiber has also helped coordinate, organize, and participate in numerous local art shows, group shows and events throughout his career.
Currently he is an exhibiting and “live paint” artist at Kaleid Gallery in Downtown San Jose; Jeff is also an art instructor for the Triton Museum of Art, The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, and The Villages Arts and Crafts Association.