Beginners

Beginners Art Courses – Introduction to Water in Various Moods

Course Information & Learning 

You will be introduced to the Beginners Watercolour Program, where you will be given the skills and confidence to develop and build up a water/seascape scene.  You will be shown how to paint various types of water; ripples, reflections, rolling and crashing waves. This will also include how to paint cliffs and rocks. This course is suitable for Intermediates who wish brush up their watercolour skills & want to learn how to paint seascapes.

P1100422 Splashing W

Painting produced by: Tutor: Imogen Kilfoyle

Skills and Techniques that will be covered:-

Application of the brush – through mark-making (to suggest water movement, ripples, reflections, including rock & cliff textures etc).

Judge the strength & mix of water & paint:  This is important for wash & mark-making techniques/processes for water/seascapes

Tone & Colour Mixing – to achieve, sky, water, sand, rock & cliff detail

Lifting out Techniques: to achieve clouds, rolling waves and seaspray etc

Application of Textural Surfaces & Mediums:  we will explore Cling Film, Salt, Resist Mediums, Gouache and White Acrylic Paint with Watercolour to create and capture the water patterns, movement, highlights and wave/spray textures.

Please Note: All applications & techniques will be demonstrated.  You will be given advice about the development of your work throughout the course.

For further Information on the course please contact the Tutor on:-

Email Address: imogen.kilfoyleartisttutor@gmail.com

Face Book:  Imogen Kilfoyle Lichfield Art Group @lichfieldartgroup

https://www.facebook.com/lichfieldartgroup/

Materials List (Beginners Starter Pack for Watercolour Course, with Drawing skills):

Please Note: These are the materials required for the first two lessons on the Beginners Watercolour Course.  If you have any queries about the art materials & equipment please contacted me for advice.  You don’t need to purchase them all at once.   

Tutor Email: imogen.kilfoyeartisttutor@gmail.com

 *Paints: (Student Quality Tube Paints) Winsor and Newton, Cotman, or Daler Rowney Aqua Fine range.  Look on the Internet (Ebay) or any Art Materials Website you can get very good deals for art materials etc

*Lemon Yellow, *Cadmium Yellow, *Raw Sienna, Cerulean, *Ultramarine, *Cadmium Red, *Alizarin Crimson, *Burnt Umber &  Burnt Sienna.

 *Paper: Bockingford, Saunders, or Daler-Rowney, Langton – Cold pressed/CP (known as ‘Not’) Watercolour paper – loose or in pads, blocks not less than 140lbs or

300/350 gms and roughly A3 size.  An A3 good quality cartridge pad would also be useful for practising drawing skills and planning ideas for still life compositions.

 Round brushes: (you will need good quality brush(es), suitable for brush work & applying washes).   Daler Rowney or ProArte series 100 or Sceptre Gold, both of which are synthetic/sable mixes, & are an excellent, & cheaper, alternative to pure sable.

Round brush *No 12, 6, 2 & 0              *Rigger Brush (Size 1) for painting tree branches etc

A Flat brush – 1 inch or ½ inch (Size 12).  You can get a size 12 round brush for about £5:00. (may be cheaper).  They are called Graduate Brushes made by Daler Rowney and are good synthetic starter brushes

Other materials required:

  • *Men’s tissues (non-dimpled) for lifting out & mopping up paint
  • Two *Palettes (preferable plastic or white porcelain with large wells to hold paint. ‘Chrysanthemum’.  Sometimes known as ‘Daisy shape’ is ideal and reasonably priced.  (Plates or palettes with small wells to hold paint are not suitable).  The daisy palette required can be purchased from The Range, Tamworth, Wilkos, WHS & any Art or Internet Suppliers. E.g. Great Art
  • *Drafting or low tack masking tape
  • *A range of pencils soft to hard, (including 2B, 9B & 7 or 9H), *Graphite Stick (2B), (pencil with no wooden/plastic casing) and Knife with a retractable blade.
  • Putty Rubber & Plastic Eraser
  • Palette Knife, Pipette and Sponge Natural or synthetic (small or medium) (Tales press & Hobby Craft will stock these or ask if they can be ordered into the store. )
  • cling Film & Salt (Rock and Table Salt)

Local Art Materials Suppliers:  

Tales Press, Dam street, Lichfield, Hobby Craft, Ventura Retail Park, Tamworth and The Paper House, Kenworthy Rd, Stafford, ST16 3DY Tel No: 01785 212953

 

Art Suppliers Websites:

Order Telephone Line No: 08433 571 572,

Order Telephone No: 0844 499 8430.

Order Telephone No: (+44 (0)1403 711633)

Order Telephone: 01204 690114   Fax: 01204 673989

e-mail: sales@artsupplies.co.uk

  • Green and Stone of Chelsea: specialist in Artist materials: Tel 020 7352 0837

Email: www.greenandstone.com

Information about Watercolour Paper:

  • HP – smooth (good for pen and ink drawing)
  • Not – this paper is not smooth/not rough – general good quality watercolour paper we use for most watercolour technical processes etc
  • Rough – textured (paper texture/pores more dimpled/pitted)

Acid Free – this means the paper will not discolour.

You need paper of this weight/thickness to work on:

l40lb = 350grms Watercolour paper. Paper less than this in weight will cockle & not hold the washes.  Some people stretch their paper by soaking it in water and using gum tape to stick it down. However this can be time consuming particularly if you need more than one piece of paper to work on.

 Please Note: Tales Press Art Suppliers, Dam Street, Lichfield – are very helpful and knowledgeable about all equipment sold.  They will help you buy what is needed for the drawing & painting course.

Further Art Materials & Equipment:

These will not be needed now & will be discussed later when needed:

 Drawing Materials:

  • A3 Cartridge Paper/Pad roughly 220gms (or more in weight/thickness with a slight texture is best).
  • *A range of pencils soft to hard, (including 2B, 9B & 7 or 9H)
  • *Graphite Stick (2B), (pencil with no wooden/plastic casing) and Knife with a retractable blade.
  • *Putty Rubber, *Plastic Eraser
  • *Paper Torchon for blending pencil detail can be purchased from art shops; Hobby Craft or Tales Press (ask Sales Advisor)
  • Watercolour Pencils (Caran D’ache) These are soft & blend easily) – These will be discussed.
  • Dip pen & Holder, Permanent (Rotring) & non-permanent pens (Berol Fine Liner Pens), that bleed when wetted. Permanent black ink (Winsor & Newton – spider & web on Box)
  • Acrylic Inks (FW) Acrylics Inks (Black, Burnt Umber, Sepia, Gold & Sap Green). These will be discussed when needed).

Water-based Paints:

  • Gouache Paints: Required for putting poppies or any grass or floral detail and enhancing landscape foregrounds
  • Colours required for this: Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine, Cerulean & White. Other colours can be purchased.  The paints can be purchased individually or in a set.

Equipment:

 Drawing board (A3 or A2 size) (if not using watercolour pad or block). Sealed hardboard or similar will do. Hobby Craft sell these.  Also look at the Works in Lichfield & other Art Suppliers. We have some drawing boards at the venue, but they can not be taken home.