Tutor Lucy Burton
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This one-day, onsite workshop is designed for those with a little experience with oils or acrylics but it's not essential.
Workshop Details
Together we will work through a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait using Oils or Acrylics - using an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working. We are aiming to make the eyes come alive and give the animal and your painting lots of personality! I hope to inspire you with some new ideas and techniques to take away with you and apply to your own work.
Most of the class content is applicable for artists painting in both acrylic and oil paints, there will just be a few ‘wet into wet’ oil painting techniques that may not apply in acrylics. We will cover composition, gridding up, colour mixing, looking at tone, where to start and how to progress the painting and generally most people will have a completed painting by 4pm. Whatever standard you are and medium you are using I would hope that everyone is able to take something away from the class that will help them on their painting journey.
You will be working from your own image, either from an iPad OR you can use a photograph at least 5” x 5”. The animal’s eyes must be clear and in focus. Crop your image so that it is square. The head of the animal should take up most of the frame.
The better the reference image – the better the painting!
Skills / Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included with the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £5, payable to the tutor during the workshop.
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.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This one-day, onsite workshop is designed for those with a little experience with oils or acrylics but it's not essential.
Workshop Details
Together we will work through a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait using Oils or Acrylics - using an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working. We are aiming to make the eyes come alive and give the animal and your painting lots of personality! I hope to inspire you with some new ideas and techniques to take away with you and apply to your own work.
Most of the class content is applicable for artists painting in both acrylic and oil paints, there will just be a few ‘wet into wet’ oil painting techniques that may not apply in acrylics. We will cover composition, gridding up, colour mixing, looking at tone, where to start and how to progress the painting and generally most people will have a completed painting by 4pm. Whatever standard you are and medium you are using I would hope that everyone is able to take something away from the class that will help them on their painting journey.
You will be working from your own image, either from an iPad OR you can use a photograph at least 5” x 5”. The animal’s eyes must be clear and in focus. Crop your image so that it is square. The head of the animal should take up most of the frame.
The better the reference image – the better the painting!
Skills / Techniques Covered
- Composition
- Tonal Grounds
- Colour Mixing
- The 'Islands to Oceans' approach
- Alla Prima Painting
- Brushwork
Materials
Materials are not included with the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £5, payable to the tutor during the workshop.
Please Bring WIth You
- A photograph of your animal or an image on an iPad / tablet
- A black and white print out of your square cropped image as large as you can make it on an A4 piece of paper
- A selection of synthetic brushes to include some ‘short flat’ synthetic acrylic brushes. I like to use...
- Daler Rowney System 3: short flat ¼”, ½”, ¾”
- Daler Rowney System 3 filbert size 2
- Small round size 1 synthetic brush
- A palette knife - Winsor and Newton size 22 or similar
- Acrylic or Oil colours as follows - Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium red, Alizarine Crimson, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, French Utramarine, Phthalo Blue. (If you have any others already bring them with you or buy a starter set on the day for £5.)
- ‘Liquin’ painting medium
- A flat mixing palette - tear off paper palettes are fine (£2 in ‘The Works’)
- For acrylic work a stay-wet palette if possiblebut a tear-off one will do
- Pencil
- Ruler
- A box or tray to take your work home in (to fit a thin 8” x 8” board)
- Some white spirit for cleaning your brushes, some rags or plenty of tissues to wipe brushes clean.
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.