Materials + Techniques
Caitlin MacBride
ONLINE - 6 weeks
Payment Plans + Financial Aid

Day of the week: Monday

Class Dates: January 9, January 16, January 23, January 30, February 6, February 13

Time: 6:00-8:30pm (EST) / 3:00-5:30pm (PST) / 12:00-2:30am (European Time)

Length: 2.5 hrs.

About the course:

This online course will combine focused critiques with a deep dive into painting specific techniques and materials. Artists will present their work twice to the group and to Caitlin MacBride, in order to receive feedback, context and research based prompts. 

This course is perfect for those looking to focus more on paint as a material. In class, there will be demos to learn about creating limited palettes, paint application, and tricks of the trade that help with surface preparation and tailoring your tools to your own painting practice. 

Critique classes will be interspersed with demo classes focused on painting techniques and materials.

Please note: Artists in this course should be prepared to have an array of paint colors (oil or acrylic) and be prepared to spend $50-$75 on additional materials. Caitlin will provide a list of recommended materials before the class starts.

Artists in this course will:

• Will come away with a variety of new technical painting skills and more confidence to explore

• Learn about various painting applications: grisaille, impasto, scumble, glazing, underpainting, and more.

• Learn different skills in surface preparation and the benefits of different substrates

• Learn about and experiment with a variety of painting mediums, types of brushes, and other tools of the trade

• Understand how to utilize limited palettes and learn more about color theory and how to apply it in painting

• Gain a conceptual understanding of the way their material connects to their content

• Receive feedback from critiques from peers and faculty in class

Guest Speaker:

Roger Carmona

Artist (rogercarmona.com) and Manager + Instructor at Kremer Pigments in NYC.

Kremer Pigments offers raw materials for art & conservation, historic and modern pigments, mediums, binders, dyes, vegetable color paints, oils, brushes, tools, linen, books and many more. Roger is an advanced expert in paint as a material and all its possibilities.

Faculty Bio:

Caitlin MacBride is an artist based in Hudson, NY. Her work engages material culture and artifacts in an exploration of labor, desire, and belief systems. MacBride’s paintings balance various languages of painting with the structures of utilitarian objects sourced from museum archives. MacBride has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.

She has shown at Fisher Parrish, Deanna Evans Projects, Heroes, Chapter NY, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Zach Feuer, Jack Barrett Gallery, Hesse Flatow, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein among others. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Art Forum, New York Magazine, and Vogue.com.

Financial Aid is available. NYC Crit Club provides payment plans, BIPOC scholarships and additional aid based on extenuating circumstances. Please click here to learn more before checking out.