Virtual-Art with Kim-Bringing Landscapes to Life: Acrylic Painting Basics

Instructor: Kim Wenger Hall, RYT-500

Tuesdays, December 2, to December 23, 2025

Tackle composition, sketching, color theory, and acrylic painting techniques to capture the magic of the world outside. Ideal for beginners or those wanting to refine their skills.

Essential Supplies:

• Canvas: 2 larger canvases (approximately 20×30 inches or larger) for your final paintings, and several smaller canvases for sketching in the same proportions as your reference photos.
• Acrylic paints: A basic set of colors is great – go for colors that don’t have the word “hue” in them (this is just white added.) Here are my go-to colors, but you really only need 5-7 colors in each painting. Consider getting big tubes of the colors that you know you will want in your paintings and smaller tubes of the ones you’re not sure about.
  • Cadmium red
  • Cadmium orange
  • Cadmium yellow
  • Lemon yellow
  • Viridian or pthalo green
  • Chrome or sap green
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Cobalt blue
  • Prussian blue
  • Alizarin crimson
  • Diozanine purple
  • Burnt sienna
  • Raw umber
  • Yellow ocher
  • Titanium white (large tube)
  • Payne’s Gray
  • Black

• Brushes: A variety of sizes and shapes, such as round, flat, liner and filbert.
• Big Brush: a large flat brush at least 2″ wide
• Acrylic primer: To prepare your canvas and provide a smooth surface for painting.
• Sketching materials: Pencil, paper, and a ruler or straightedge for planning your compositions.
• Buckets for water: One for clean water and one for rinsing brushes. (a large 5-gallon bucket and bucket liner for dumping is great – that way you can pour your dirty water in it and let the water evaporate, then dispose of the solids in the trash)
• Easel: A sturdy easel to hold your canvas while you paint.
• Palette:A palette to mix your colors.
• Reference photos:To inspire your compositions and provide visual references for color and detail.
• Rags/Sponges: for cleaning and glazing

Optional Supplies:

• Masking tape: To create borders or shapes on your canvas.
• Palette knife: For mixing paints and creating textures.
• Mixing/storing containers: little Tupperwares with lids and pill bottles work wonders to store mixed up paint
• Permanent marker: for marking containers/pallette
• Wax Paper: makes a great mixing surface

When you sign up for this class you are enrolled for the whole series.

If you have questions, please reach out to the Aging Resource Center at AgingCenter@Hitchcock.org or call 603-653-3460.

The Zoom link will be sent one hour before each class begins.