'Winter number 2' by Colin Pethick
Course date: Wednesday 31 October 2012
This will be a fun-packed day to experiment with mark-making, brushwork and surface treatments to develop a wealth of effects for future work.
Colin will demonstrate a huge range of techniques to achieve texture, pattern and surface interest in your paintings, using plastic bags, lace, net, combs, sticks, resist and more! He will also explain how to use washes to build depth into your paintings; how to glaze and scumble, and will offer advice on finishing and framing your work.
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
- An A4 or bigger sketch pad
- Water pot
- 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 plus your usual painting kit
- Watercolour and/or acrylic paints - see colour list below
- Soft drawing pencils and a rubber
- A plastic or wooden palette to mix on
- Some old cotton rags or kitchen roll for brush wiping
- Small pot of PVA glue if you have it
- Scrap lace, or fabric with a pronounced texture to it for collaging with
- Scraps of textured wallpaper if you have any
- A note pad, and pen or pencil
- An old shirt or an overall / apron to work in
The following colours in acrylic paint
- French Ultramarine Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Sienna
- Alizarin Crimson
- Cadmium Red
- Cerulian Blue
- Cadmium Yellow
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black
We can supply all the materials you will need for a small charge.