Increase your sensibility to colour in painting! Identify the three fundamental aspects of colour, hue, saturation and value and learn how to manipulate them.
The course is planned around exercises and studies from still life or the immediate landscape at Tiptoe. The focus is on unpicking these three aspects so that you can see how each one works to help build a resonance between one colour and another, to achieve greater impact for more exciting painting. You will work in acrylics (for speed).
There will be some opportunity to build on skills and knowledge you already have, and to make representational or more abstracted work. The aim is to enjoy the process and to finish with a plan of action for further painting at home.
You will need to bring your own materials. It is important that you read the list of materials required.
List of materials: Acrylic paints in primary colours, two each of red, yellow and blue and white. Daler Rowney System 3 is a good brand for the purpose if you are buying new. You will need: • Cadmium Red and Process Magenta or Crimson • Process Yellow or Cadmium Yellow and Lemon Yellow • Process Cyan or a blue turquoise (preferable not pthalo or indigo, these are too dark) and Ultramarine • White • Acrylic matte medium Daler Rowney or Liquitex (sometimes called a glaze). • Good sized water container • Brushes suitable for acrylics, at least one large one size 12 • Palette knife • Cartridge paper 200gsm for painting, a lighter weight paper is fine for sketching • kitchen paper • palette – a flat surface. Tear off greaseproof paper palettes are good if not particularly eco friendly or re-use some shiny card or re-use plastic sheeting – tape to a board or table top • masking tape, pencils, scissors
