Hursto Presto Studios
Attend a Bob Ross style acrylic landscape paint party and go home with a painting that your friends and family will not believe you painted, but you know you did. Your signature says so!
Paint parties are being designed and will launch Spring 2023!
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Introductory Bob Ross Style Acrylic Paint Parties: These are 2 hour social events of no less than 6 people painting an introductory Bob Ross style landscape using craft paint and brushes on a 16” x 20” canvas. An acrylic water-based version of “Liquid White” is created using a 50/50 mixture of Titanium White and Slo-Dry acrylic medium. All supplies are provided.
Pricing of a paint party is $35 or $45 each depending on venue.
Starting Feb. 2023
Paint Parties
- Forest Moon
- Purple Mountain
- The Thicket
- Tropical Sunset
- Gnarly Tree
- Looking Up
Interested in attending a paint party with Jim Hurst? All materials provided! Fill out and send the form below and let him know!
Oils vs. Acrylic
Paint parties require the use of thin acrylic craft paint to keep prices down due to its low cost, fast drying time and high availability.
No doubt there is a huge difference between the thick slow drying oils vs thin fast drying acrylics in regard to technique.
The Loss Of Texture
The Alexander/Ross golden rule 'A Thin Paint Will Stick To A Thick Paint' no longer applies to acrylic craft paint because it's all thin.
And there is the loss of using a palette knife for creating texture on mountains, tree bark and dirt/stone. You'd need a firm paint for that.
So in the paint party spirit of keeping costs low and teachability up, I modified the technique to accommodate the thin, faster drying acrylic. Thin craft paint is used for sky and water base coats while the thicker tubed acrylic is used for foreground compositions.
In effect, the Bob Ross golden rule; "A thin paint will stick to a thick paint." is flipped upside-down using acrylic: "A thick paint will stick to a thin/dry paint."
Oil Wet-On-Wet
The strength of the Alexander/Ross wet-on-wet oil method is how color is applied to a canvas previously coated with a thin slow drying coat of white. Instead of mixing a color with white on the palette, white is pre-applied to the canvas. Color is mixed directly into the white on the canvas creating those beautiful skys and water effects.
The use of a firm paint helps to create rocky texture and tree bark with a palette knife. And the golden rule "a thin paint sticks to a thick paint" is in effect.
Acrylic Wet-On-Dry
This is the standard paint party method we currently use with an aim to keep costs down. A set of 2oz. craft paints and low cost brushes are used with great effect to help deliver a fun, low cost event. It's all about the experience. And the paintings look great!
