Advanced Drawing & Painting

Tutor: Alex Duncan | Mondays 10am-4pm | 12 weeks

This course is designed for those with prior experience in drawing and painting who are ready to deepen their practice. You’ll work from the life model and still life, exploring a range of media and techniques that encourage experimentation and personal expression. Emphasis is placed on process as well as outcome, with sketchbook work forming a key part of developing your visual language.

Students are required to bring their own materials and should refer to the materials list below before their course starts. (#MN20)

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Advanced Drawing & Painting

We provide easels and drawing boards for use during the course. There is also a small art shop on-site, selling a range of supplies including paper, charcoal, and pencils for drawing, as well as brushes, paints, and canvases for painting. Your tutor will be happy to advise you on suitable materials. Please bring these materials with you when you start the course:

Charcoal (2 medium sticks)
Putty Rubber
Masking Tape
Acrylic paints: Red / Blue / Yellow / White
Or, Oil Paints: Cadmium Red / French Ultramarine Blue / Cadmium Yellow
Brushes size 3, 5, 8 (flat hog bristle)
Large tear-off palette
Palette knife
Kitchen roll / old rags

If using Oil Paints:

Purified Linseed
Double dippers
Low odour thinners
Titanium White Low odour thinners (sold at Heatherley’s)

Optional:

Apron

Please only bring low odour thinners with you or buy them from the school shop. For health & safety reasons we do not allow the use of white spirit or turpentine at Heatherleys.