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Triton Online 2025: Adventures in Acrylic Painting (Spring)

Price

Members: $120, Non-Members: $140, Day Pass (Members): $21, Day Pass (Non-Members): $24

Location
Online
Dates
Thursday Evenings 6:00PM-8:00PM, May 15 through June 19

Duration

6 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! This 6-week session will include both the brush and palette knife and covers Acrylic Painting of places in our local areas such as the Bay Area, Santa Cruz county, and San Benito county. While a reference will be provided each week, students are encouraged to use their own references on any given subject. Join in and create some new art to enjoy in late Spring and to kick off the early summer!


Schedule:

  • Week 1: May 15 - Moss Beach (Acrylic with Brush)

  • Week 2: May 22 - Golden Gate Area (Acrylic with Brush)

  • Week 3: May 29 - The Pinnacles (Knife Painting)

  • Week 4: June 5 - The Bay at Night (Abstract Acrylic with Brush)

  • Week 5: June 12 - Our Golden Hills (Knife Painting)

  • Week 6: June 19 - Santa Cruz (Acrylic with Brush)


Recommended Materials List:

  • 6 count of 11”x14” Canvas Panels or Stretched canvases or

  • 6 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)

  • #1, #4, #6 Round Synthetic Brushes

  • #6, #8, #10 Filbert Synthetic Brush (#12 Filbert optional)

  • #4, #6, #8 Flat Synthetic Brushes

  • #2, #4 Bright Synthetic Brushes (made from Taklon Nylon)

  • 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

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.

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