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Introduction to Acrylic Painting: Level 2 taught by Carl Oltvedt
October 26, 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets 4 Thursdays, October 26, November 2,9,16 from 3-6pmIntroduction to Acrylic Painting: Level 2
Do you already have some experience painting with acrylics? Here’s a chance to build on what you know with some new techniques.
This class requires some prior knowledge/experience with color theory, basic drawing skills, and an introduction to acrylic media. Students will be instructed further on more advanced applications of acrylic painting with a focus on improving techniques, as well as developing a deeper understanding of composition, color, light, pictorial space, and expressive impact using still life as the vehicle for personal growth and discovery. Impasto, glazing, wet into wet and other applications will be explored.
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Carl Oltvedt works full-time as an artist in a variety of painting and drawing media. He retired from Minnesota State University Moorhead in May of 2015, where he was a Professor in the School of Visual Arts.
His paintings and drawings are included in numerous public, corporate, and private collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. He has completed commissions for corporations and private collectors, including Cargill Corporation, Securian Corporation, and the Laske family. He was a recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants in 2014 and 1991, and a Lake Region Arts Council/McKnight Artist Fellowship in 2002. He exhibits his work at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis where he has been represented since 1978, and at the Rourke Art Gallery & Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota.
