This workshop will allow you to explore traditional painting practices and experiment with new ones!
Colin will demonstrate a range of mark-making techniques to record tone, form, light and shade. He will also look at composition, layering materials, how to build a collage, perspective, scumbling and glazing.
Students will spend the day trying out different techniques and produce a creative and expressive mixed media painting incorporating these.
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