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Painting for the Petrified
About Richard
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Further Detail
Richard will 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' ! The more tricky aspects of learning to paint are concerned with mixing colours - so the course 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

Skills/Techniques Covered
  • Theories and practices of mixing colours
  • Techniques of painting with watercolours
  • Learning how to SEE as distinct from merely looking

Level
This course is designed for a range of abilities, from complete beginner to improver

Please Bring With You​
  • Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £2.00 payable to the tutor during the course. The items you will need to bring with you are listed below.
  • Richard will supply watercolour paper already stretched on boards.
  • The venue will supply water jars and spare paint palettes.
  • One orange, one apple, one onion and a few grapes.
  • 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 couple of paintbrushes - sable or simulated - sizes 4, 6 or even 8
  • Kitchen Roll

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.​​


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