Drawing with Watercolour and Mixed media
Drawing with Watercolour and Mixed media
Date: Sunday July 19th 9.30-3.30pm
Location: The NEST Creative Space, 24A Bourke Road, Alexandria, NSW 2015
Love mixed media or longing to try? Come for a day of drawing with watercolour, gouache, ink, pens, pencils, charcoal, pastels and more. Through structured exercises, you will try a variety of techniques and discover how different media can be combined, including wet and dry methods and collage.
We will compare the different qualities of each medium, experimenting with physical description and expressive effects.
With a focus on composition, texture and colour, subjects will include still life and the landscape in and around the studio. Students will work from observation and imagination.
Students will create several small studies and complete at least one more developed piece.
This workshop suits both beginners to painting/mixed media and more experienced artists.
MATERIAL LIST
This list outlines the minimum materials you will need for the workshop. It a guide rather than a definitive list. Please also bring any preferred or pre-owned materials, as well as anything extra you would like to try.
Tanya will provide extra colours and materials for you to experiment with.
Paper: Bring a good supply of watercolour and drawing paper. You can also bring any unfinished or abandoned paintings or drawings to rework or use in collage.
Paints: Transparent Watercolour paints and Gouache colours: tubes or dry palettes
A limited set of warm and cool primary colours of each is fine, for instance;
Raw sienna
Lemon yellow
Windsor red (or cadmium)
Permanent rose
Prussian blue OR Pthalo blue
Ultramarine blue.
+ White gouache
Paint Brushes
3 or 4 soft-haired watercolour brushes from size 2 to 12
1 cheaper brush for glue
Pencils + charcoal + pens
2 or more pencils HB to 3B
Up to 6 watercolour pencils in a range of colours
Up to 6 chalk pastels in a range of colours, including colour white
Charcoal sticks or pencils
Any range of biros, pentels, gel pens that you have
Ink
1 small pot of black drawing ink
1 nib pen for ink drawing
Optional: coloured inks in any colours you prefer
Other
Watercolour pan palette
PVA Craft glue (for sticking paper)
2 clean jars or containers
Tissues or kitchen roll
Rubber, sharpener
Masking tape and/or clips