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SmArt School

Mentorship with

     Ray Bonilla     
Illustrator and painter Sam Weber at his desk in his studio looking at the camera.

Fall 2020 

interactive small classes once a week for 14 Weeks

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  • Impactful Light and Color in Oil painting
  • Special industry guest: Steve Diamant owner of Arcadia Contemporary
  • Sat 3-6pm       Eastern Time
  • September 12 through end of December or January*
  • 10 student maximum class size
  • $2500
  • ​Includes FREE audit of any other mentorship
To audit without full mentorship $495 Audit Only-Fall 2020, Click Here
​If you need a payment plan there's PAYPAL Bill Me Later interest-free credit HERE
*SmArt School teachers sometimes have to travel for professional reasons. If they must miss a class they will notify all students during class time and add a session to the end of the calendar. No class is held during Thanksgiving, Illuxcon Week**, or between Christmas and New Years. All Classes meet live and are not recorded due to proprietary content. Teaching will not happen via email, only during class time.

Impactful Light and Color in Oil Painting

Too often a skillful approach to color is not taught in the art school environment. Yet gaining mastery of color takes time and discipline. This mentorship program is an ideal way for artists to get a deep understanding of the complex and foundational parts of oil painting. Ray Bonilla has received wide acclaim for his approach to color, both in the worlds of illustration and in gallery art. His teaching will apply to both of those worlds. The class is highly structured: Ray will walk students through the processes of creating four paintings over the course of the semester.  Students will practice making monochromatic studies and color wheels. They will learn multiple approaches to creating an underpainting and working with both transparent glazes and thicker, opaque paint on top of an underpainting. Students will learn how to work with two traditional color palettes: the Zorn palette and the Chromatic palette. Dedicated students will gain a firm grasp of how to use color for maximum impact in their paintings.

​After taking this class students will also receive a free profile on the Smarter Art Market, a destination for art directors and collectors.

About Ray Bonilla

Ray Bonilla is a celebrated representational painter and illustrator. His work has been exhibited extensively across the U.S. and is represented by both Abend Gallery and Meibohm Gallery. His illustrations have won gold medals in competitions at The Society of Illustrators In New York and the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles. He has also won multiple awards of excellence in Communication Arts Annual Illustration Competitions. His art has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts Magazine and Artists on Art Magazine. He teaches painting at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Illustrator Sam Weber's painted book cover for the book 'Dune'
Visit Ray's Website: https://www.raymondbonilla.com/