Contemporary Drawing into Painting
Friday/Saturday 15th and 16th October
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Nothing to do with yoga but everything to do with collecting information in the field to use for a studio painting!
This two day course will take you through preliminary gathering of material, sketching in the garden or in the forest, to work from back in the studio. In wet weather some of the rooms in the house filled with interesting artifacts, nooks and crannies, can be used as a rich resource.
In the studio you will work with composition, colour and mark-making to develop your initial drawings into small paintings or studies for longer term painting projects.
The course is open to people with some experience of painting and drawing.
All details regarding cost, accommodation and delicious cooking can be found at Tiptoe. Contact me via my form on this website if you have questions about the course itself.
You will need to provide your own materials:
Materials List
This might seem like a lot but you will find you have most of these items!
For sketching outside:
· Light weight paper, cartridge, sugar paper… white and/or neutral coloured, to be torn into A5 or A6 pieces
· A4 Board to lean on – firm grey board or back of sketch book
· Bull dog clip or clothes peg
· Sundry drawing tools – For example, two or three pieces each or pastels, black, white and a colour, charcoal, including compressed charcoal, white chalk or conte, drawing ink or acrylic ink, pencils, graphite sticks.
(Bring them all if you have them but don’t feel that you have to buy whole new sets! You do not need all of these but more than one item would be good).
For studio work:
· A table cover (large piece of plastic or paper/newspaper reduces cleaning!)
· Acrylic paints. You will need the basic primary colours and white (two reds – cadmium and crimson, two yellows – lemon and cadmium, two blues – ultramarine and cyan or phthalo. Basically, one warmer and one cooler example). If you have other colours you can bring them.
· Brushes, flat palette (baking paper or plastic taped to table top or a board is useful), large water container
· Palette knives
· Sundry pieces of ‘neutral‘ coloured paper, i.e oddments in black, midtone and lighter tone (you can be creative and use brown envelopes, the inside of envelopes, parcel paper, newspaper…)
· Surface for painting – 200g + paper A2 minimum or join more than one sheet
· A board to fix the paper to if using an easel or you can work flat on a table
· Masking tape and scissors
· Pencil sharpener or craft knife
· Glue/Pritt stick
· Phone camera if you have one.
Not essential (we might not use these but please bring if you have them):
· Sheets of very cheap, thin white paper for creating your own coloured paper for collage (e.g children’s sketch book or printer paper)
· Acrylic matte medium – the basic one! (Not essential but useful if you like working with acrylics)
· Easel if you have one
