Description
This course will provide you with a week of structured daily exercises, revising and revisiting formal elements in drawing and painting. Guided studies considering line, tone and measure in drawing will lead into colour studies in painting from direct observation. This course is suitable for students with minimal experience as well as more practised painters who wish to refresh their skills.
Tutor: Kate Hopkins and Ian Rowlands
Course #: SC20
10.00am – 4.00pm
Topics to be covered
Drawing
Line and orientation
Picture plane and measure
Negative space
Tone
Composition
Painting
Drawing with paint
Restricted palette
Painting language
Painting Mediums – best practice
Materials List
Drawing Equipment
Pencils HB, 2B, 4B
Hard plastic eraser
Putty rubber
Charcoal
Masking tape
Ruler
Oil Paint – Basic Palette
Titanium white
Cadmium lemon (or Winsor lemon)
Cadmium yellow medium
Cadmium red
Alizarin crimson
Ultramarine blue
Cerulean or Cobalt or Pthalo blue
Ivory black
Medium
Sansodor (odour free solvent)
Brushes
Pure sable or nylon sizes 2 and 4
Hog hair sizes 4 and 8
Rigger size 1 or 2
Palette knife
Equipment
Rags or kitchen towel
Two screw top jars
Palette (tear-off or wooden)
Dipper
Optional
Apron or old shirt
75ml Linseed stand oil
75ml Liquin original (speeds drying)