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Watercolour Landscape Painting for Beginners/Improvers - UCM - SPRING

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:

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.

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.

Paint

Cadmium Yellow

Lemon Yellow

Cadmium Red

Alizarin Crimson

French Ultramarine

Cerulean Blue

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.

Other Colours make mixing quicker. Some are more opaque or transparent, so giving a different feel to a mix.

Reds

Light Red - Indian Red - These are almost the same.

Burnt Umber Very dark red/brown

Burnt Sienna

Yellow -Raw Sienna - Raw Umber

Blue - Cobalt Blue

Other colours I use are Cobalt Turquoise, Payne's Grey.

Now this said, The Six at the head of this list are quite capable of giving you almost all the colour you need, it's just a little more work.

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.

Drawing Board. To tape paper to board.

Kitchen Roll.

Craft Knife. Pen Knife.

Dip pen

Natural sponge

Paper

I paint on Arches 100% Cotton paper 140lb and 300lb.

To start 14 x 10 inch, 140lb Rough would be excellent. The paper comes in Rough -Not - and Hot Pressed. Rough is well Rough! Hot Pressed is very smooth and Not falls between the two, an intermediate surface. Rough or Not is the best choice. If buying full sheets cut them into four. Each would then be 15 x 11 inch. But it comes in pads and blocks; a block is 20 sheets of paper glued around all four sides and pre-stretched. You paint on the top layer you cut it off when finished, you then have a new sheet set to go. Blocks are more expensive but are convenient.

That said any Cotton paper would do.

Cotton paper is quite expensive, but it will make the painting process a lot more controllable and allow you to overpaint with ease.

You can use a cheaper paper for pen and wash work, 140lb or 200lb Bockingford works well for this.

The above is only a suggested list of materials and paint. But feel free to bring what you have, and we will work from there.

The paper is the key; I would get a few sheets of cotton paper. The painting will be more controllable! and less stressful!

All the above may sound a lot, but it can fit into a shoulder bag, and you're ready to go!

Course Code:
Q3560
Start Date:
11/03/2023
End Date:
20/05/2023
Start Time:
09:30
End Time:
12:30
Hours:
3.00 hrs per wk
Duration:
8 weeks
Fee:
168.00
Location:
Spaces:
2 places left