Painting for the Petrified

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When:
2nd July 2016 @ 10:00 am – 3rd July 2016 @ 5:00 pm
2016-07-02T10:00:00+01:00
2016-07-03T17:00:00+01:00
Art Courses

Art Coursepainting
with Richard Box 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12

This course is for all of you who long to paint in watercolours but have been deterred by the erroneous myth that they are supposed to be ‘difficult’. Richard will dispel that myth and teach you, step by step, how to paint a simple still life and achieve marvelous effects with numerous layers of translucent colours without ‘getting mud’!
Most problems about painting are concerned about 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.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM

 

Materials List
You will need to bring the following equipment for this course:

2 drawing boards or 2 16″ x 20″ plywood off-cuts (N.B. they need to be
unvarnished so that gummed paper strip can stick to them when stretching
watercolour paper)*
4 drawing board clips or bulldog clips*
A roll of gummed paper strip
A pad or a few sheets of watercolour paper (300grams) size A4 approx.
An eraser
6 coloured pencils – ultramarine and cerulean blues, lemon and cadmium yellows, scarlet and crimson reds. Please bring those of good quality, preferably water
soluble. (Caran D’Ache are excellent and their respective number codes are as
follows = 140, 171, 240, 010, 060 and 080 Richard will bring spare coloured pencils for those of you who find it difficult to find them and may borrow them for the course.*
One orange, one apple, one onion and a few grapes.
Two right-angled “corners” cut from stiff card in the form of the capital “L” about 8 inches in both directions.*
A pencil sharpener
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 tube of white gouache paint.
The items marked with an * means Richard will try to remember to bring loads of spares for those of you who find difficulty finding them.

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Artist’s Profile
Richard is an artist who paints and draws, but who is also known for his textile work. He has been teaching for 51 years and has a missionary zeal to convert students’ terrors of drawing and painting to an enthusiastic desire to continue practicing these disciplines because of their discovery that they are calming, rewarding and therapeutic.
www.richardbox.co.uk