Welcome to the HSSPA Arts and Crafts Group

For those who are inexperienced or would like a refresher we have a small program to help you get started with your painting.




Color wheel guide                       Completed color wheel

Arts and Crafts Group: Your first meeting

Please join us on Fridays from 2.30 to 5.00pm!  Everyone is welcome!

We will return to our regular acrylics program: start from scratch, continue on your color wheel, paint a tulip, ....

Of course you can bring along any project you are working on.

Or just come by to say hello.

For "drawing from the right side of the brain" you will need: 

- Some scrap paper (A4 or Letter)

- A unerasable pen (e.g. a regular ball point pen)

For the acrylics program you will need:

- Paint: primary yellow, red and blue plus white. I recommend the Liquitex Basics 4+1 acrylic set. It also has black. (Try Michaels in Porter Square, or Blocks or Artist and Craftsman Supply, both in Central Square or anywhere online.)  Some other brands mix their pigments so they are no good for mixing all the other colors. E.g. Artist's Loft yellow contains white, and their red contains an orange and another pigment. Check the labels.

- Brush: synthetic, flat (angled or filbert=rounded corners are fine) about 1/4" across (5 to 9 mm). You can do an awful lot with this one brush. A fine round one can be useful for adding fine details.

- A palette to mix your paint on. Any flattish waterproof surface with a gloss finish that you can wash or throw away - anything from a dinner plate to a piece of heavy plastic to freezer paper to a block of palette paper from your art supply shop.

- A palette knife to mix with. Again any (blunt) blade will do. Flexible is nice. I use a very old small kitchen knife. We used to use wooden coffee stirrers. Cheap sets of brushes often include a plastic palette knife.

- A (block of) 140 lb watercolor paper,
and/or
- 8"x10" and 9"x12" primed canvases.

- Some scrap paper for testing your brush.

- Half a cup of cold water, to clean your brush as you go.

- Paper towel (or rags) to dry your brush as you paint, and to wipe off excess paint when you change colors or finish.

- Dishwashing detergent to clean your brush

copied from an unknown artist

by Leonid Afremov       
by Vincent van Gogh

                   

Our motto is EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST!

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