Detail from 'Profile more green' by Colin Pethick
Course date: Wednesday 3 August 2011
Please note this course has been rescheduled from the originally advertised date of Tuesday 2 August. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Working with glass, wood and ceramic objects in the studio, Colin will demonstrate how to put together a good still-life composition and, using a broad range of painting methods, how to render texture, tone and colour with oil and/or acrylic paints. Colour mixing and blending, traditional methods of modelling form, wet into wet painting, scumbling and glazing will also be included as will brushwork and impasto mark-making techniques.
Students will paint alongside Colin and there will be lots of individual support, opportunities to discuss your work and ask questions throughout the day.
Materials for the course
- All your usual paint brushes and any paint colours you already have in addition to ...
- A canvas board, stretched canvas, or 3mm thick MDF or hardboard panel (primed if possible). Size to suit you but no smaller than A3
- A No 6 flat and No 4 flat brush for acrylic or oil painting, and a round size 3 brush for oils or acrylic
- A small decorator’s paint brush
- A plastic or wooden palette to mix on
- A water pot
- Some old cotton rags or kitchen roll for brush wiping
- A note pad, and pen or pencil
- An old shirt or an overall / apron to work in
The following colours in Artisan water mixable Oil paint or Winsor & Newton Acrylic
- French Ultramarine Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Sienna
- Alizarin Crimson
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black
- Cadmium Red
- Cadmium Yellow
We can supply all the materials you will need for a small charge.