Advice and guidance to enable you to improve techniques of drawing, painting and design. This is also the opportunity to work in more detail as well as develop individual skills and style. Course includes more advanced techniques for colour mixing and landscape. Leaflet available. Tutor: Mr P Parker.
Equipment you need to bring:
Black Waterproof ink
Brushes
Sable Hair mixture or Nylon. Rounds.
Pure Sable, while the best, are very expensive.
Three or four will do. Sizes 2, 6, 10, 12 would be a good start.
A rigger brush and a broad mop brush would also be useful to have. More so, the Rigger.
Paint
I use tube colour squeezed out into the pans in my paintbox.
It is the most economical way to do it. The paint then goes hard like a pan. The colour can then be made workable with ease, with water.
Paint
Cadmium Yellow / Lemon Yellow / Raw Umber
Cadmium Red / Alizarin Crimson / Burnt Sienna
Cerulean Blue / Ultramarine Blue / Cobalt Blue
Other colours I use are Burnt Umber Payne's Gray / Raw Sienna / Cobalt Turquoise.
If you do not have all the colours, the six in Bold type will do.
What you then have is cold and warm of each of the three primary colours, this will let you mix all the colours you will need.
Colour
Colour is personal, but you will with time, find your range to work with what best suits your needs.
That said, most artists have a similar palette.
You can start with a Six colour Palette; this works well.
Other Colours make mixing quicker. Some are more opaque or transparent, so giving a different feel to a mix.
Implements
A few things and matchsticks. These are for ink Drawing.
Mixing Dish, White China or Enamel works best.
Two small jars for water.
Liquid Masking Fluid. To protect any areas of your paper, you need to keep white.
Masking Tape. To tape paper to board.
Pencils HB 2B 4B. To draw and trace down.
Putty Rubber. These will not damage your paper surface.
Piece of rigid board large enough to stretch A3 sheets on.
Kitchen Roll.
Craft Knife. Pen Knife.
Blotting paper.
Natural sponge.
Archers or other cotton paper 140lb pads.
This is only a suggested range of materials and paint for those in need of help. Please feel free to use whatever you would at home.
