Join me for a fun day of painting expressive skies. Find out what a huge difference a dramatic sky can make to your paintings, and how a sky can be a painting in its own right.
2nd November 2024 10am - 4pm
Required skill level: Absolute beginners to advanced painters are all welcome.
Painting Medium: Acrylics. (Not for oils sorry - the fumes are too smelly indoors with lots of people).
Location: The Scallop Room, The Quarry Arts Centre, 21 Selwyn Avenue, Whangarei, New Zealand
Maximum number of students: 10 (Be in quick!)
By the end of the day you'll be able to use clouds, colour and expressive brushwork to paint beautiful dynamic skies.
The Quarry Arts Centre
21 Selwyn Avenue, Whangarei 0110
Phone: (09) 438 1215
Click the Map or here to see the live google map.
10am Arrive. (Park wherever you can - close to the scallop room is fine).
Setup your painting space. Tables and chairs are available. You should have a desk easel or standing easel, unless you're happy painting on a flat table. Grab a cuppa.
10:30 lesson begins.
12:30 - 1:15 lunch. BYO. Cuppa's available any time.
4pm Finish and packup.
You can pay that into my ASB account: 12-3238-0540553-00
Please use your last name as the reference for the payment.
Got some questions you'd like to ask?
Please do your homework first - read all the info above to learn more and if you can't find your answers there please do contact Richard here.
See you there!
Acrylic Paint
I use Chroma Interactive Acrylics, but feel free to use any acrylics you like. Generally, the more you pay the better they are.
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light (or Lemon Yellow or Arylamide Yellow)
Brilliant Magenta (or similar)
Cadmium Red (or Scarlet)
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Surfaces
2 painting panels about 10x10" (26x26cm)
I'll use 3mm MDF panel prepared with 2-3 coats of acrylic undercoat or gesso, sanded smooth between layers. You can use whatever you like.
Brushes
Long flat synthetic brushes Sizes: 10, 12. (2 of each).
Synthetic filbert size 8.
Small signing brush size 2.
I have the Richard Robinson Brush Set
Other
Portable folding easel or desktop easel or just paint flat on the table.
Large flat palette. (A4 or larger)
Palette knife.
Pencil.
A4 Sketchbook or larger with a hard back.
Paper towels or tissues (for cleaning palette knife and drying brushes).
Large jar for water.
Plastic bag for holding dirty tissues.
Phone with camera.
Contact me if you have any questions. If you don't have exactly the same supplies as me don't worry, we'll just make do.