Tutor: Richard Box
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This two-day workshop is specifically designed for absolute beginners or those wishing to refresh their skills.
Workshop Details
Are you petrified of painting but long to try watercolours? Have you been deterred by the erroneous myth that they are supposed to be ' difficult '? Richard will dispel that myth and teach you, step by step, how to paint a simple still life and achieve marvellous effects with numerous layers of translucent colours without 'getting mud' ! Most problems about painting are concerned with mixing colours so the class will start with exploring the nature of colour with coloured pencils. This will give you the confidence to transfer your newly discovered knowledge to watercolours. If you follow Richard's ' recipes ', you will be thrilled at what you can achieve. The workshop is for all of you who want to learn to paint in watercolours. It is also for all of you who want to work with others who like a quiet, serene and focussed atmosphere. Furthermore, it is for all of you who like to be taught in a structured way.
During the class you will start with learning theories of mixing colours with coloured pencils. You will then apply your new - found knowledge to painting a simple still-life in watercolours. As you are "petrified", every part of the course will be taught in a structured, step-by-step manner.
Skills and Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee.
Students Please Bring
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a workshop 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 two-day workshop is specifically designed for absolute beginners or those wishing to refresh their skills.
Workshop Details
Are you petrified of painting but long to try watercolours? Have you been deterred by the erroneous myth that they are supposed to be ' difficult '? Richard will dispel that myth and teach you, step by step, how to paint a simple still life and achieve marvellous effects with numerous layers of translucent colours without 'getting mud' ! Most problems about painting are concerned with mixing colours so the class will start with exploring the nature of colour with coloured pencils. This will give you the confidence to transfer your newly discovered knowledge to watercolours. If you follow Richard's ' recipes ', you will be thrilled at what you can achieve. The workshop is for all of you who want to learn to paint in watercolours. It is also for all of you who want to work with others who like a quiet, serene and focussed atmosphere. Furthermore, it is for all of you who like to be taught in a structured way.
During the class you will start with learning theories of mixing colours with coloured pencils. You will then apply your new - found knowledge to painting a simple still-life in watercolours. As you are "petrified", every part of the course will be taught in a structured, step-by-step manner.
Skills and Techniques Covered
- Develop your powers of perception
- Understanding of colour
- Composition
- Painting techniques.
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee.
Students Please Bring
- 2 drawing boards or 2 16" x 20" plywood off-cuts (N.B. they need to be unvarnished so that gummed paper strip can stick to them when stretching watercolour paper).
- 4 drawing board clips or bulldog clips.
- A roll of gummed paper strip.
- A pad or a few sheets of watercolour paper (300grams) size A4 approx.
- An eraser.
- 6 coloured pencils - ultramarine and cerulean blues, lemon and cadmium yellows, scarlet and crimson reds. Please bring those of good quality, preferably water soluble. (Caran D'Ache are excellent and their respective number codes are as follows = 140, 171, 240, 010, 060 and 080.
- (Richard will bring spare coloured pencils for those of you who find it difficult to find them and may borrow them for the workshop)
- One orange, one apple, one onion and a few grapes.
- Two right-angled "corners" cut from stiff card in the form of the capital "L" about 8 inches in both directions.
- A pencil sharpener
- A watercolour paint box that contains the same six colours (i.e. a purple-blue, a green-blue, a green-yellow, an orange yellow, an orange-red and a purple -red. Equivalent names could be ultramarine, cerulean blue, lemon-yellow, cadmium yellow or gamboge, scarlet and crimson)
- A tube of white gouache paint
- A palette with at least 8 indentations.
- A kitchen roll.
- A couple of paintbrushes - sable or simulated - sizes 4, 6 or even 8.
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a workshop more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.