Acrylic Still Life Painting w/ Andrew Alcasid

Participants will engage in a step-by-step exercise in still life painting to capture the likeness of a floral subject. Working on mixed media paper, the activity will start with the sketch, dry mediums such as graphite and colored pencil will be utilized, then move on to paint, as participants mix and match primary colors to work towards completed paintings.

Los participantes participarán en un ejercicio paso a paso de pintura de bodegón para capturar la semejanza de un motivo floral. Trabajando en papel de medios mixtos, la actividad comenzará con el boceto, se utilizarán medios secos como grafito y lápices de colores, luego se pasará a la pintura, mientras los participantes mezclan y combinan colores primarios para avanzar hacia pinturas completas.

Andrew Alcasid (b.1987) is a Southern California based artist. Born in the Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego. Alcasid is primarily self-taught, although he has taken art classes at San Diego Mesa college. With a wide range of talents, his artistic inclinations have found him creating drawings, paintings, large-scale installations, and ceramics. Coming to the field in a non-traditional fashion, his early forays into the arts were spent creating art in the form of graffiti and street art. He furthered his academic art development through, graduating from the Museum Studies program at San Diego Mesa College. Currently displaying work throughout San Diego, his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the region. Alcasid has held a long-term artist residency at one of the region’s most formidable art centers, Bread and Salt, and most recently exhibited a solo exhibit, “Turning Pages” at La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music and Arts Library.