Further Detail
On this two-day course you will be shown how to sketch landscapes and architecture using pens, nibs, inks and watercolour paint.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Skills and techniques learnt will include how to use the pen before and after the wash, how to use nibs and inks, sketching trees, buildings in the landscape and architectural detail. Weather permitting, there may be an opportunity to sketch in the village.
Level
This course is designed for a range of abilities from complete beginners to intermediate level
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee.
Please Bring With You
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
On this two-day course you will be shown how to sketch landscapes and architecture using pens, nibs, inks and watercolour paint.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Skills and techniques learnt will include how to use the pen before and after the wash, how to use nibs and inks, sketching trees, buildings in the landscape and architectural detail. Weather permitting, there may be an opportunity to sketch in the village.
Level
This course is designed for a range of abilities from complete beginners to intermediate level
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee.
- The tutor will be supplying nibs and inks to use but if you have some then bring them along.
Please Bring With You
- An A4 or equivalent size pad of 140lb (300gsm) cold pressed (Not surface) watercolour paper
- Watercolour paint in either tubes or pans. If bringing tubes then you will need a palette.
- Basic set of recommended colours: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Alizarin Crimson
- 1 x black waterproof ink pen size 02, 03, 04 or 05
- The tutor recommends one of the following: Pilot DR Drawing pen, Edding Profipen, Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen, Mitsubishi PinPen
- One size 8 or 10 and one size 4 round watercolour brush
- Kitchen Roll
- Eraser
- 2B pencil
- A folding chair to sit on if we sketch outside.
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.