Workshops


Workshops in 2024

1 JUNE 2024

KATHERINE HEUESTON

The Workshop will be an Introduction to Life drawing. There will be a live model all day.

We will start the day with ‘gesture’ drawings which last from 3 minutes to 30 seconds. The objective is to capture the main implied action, to loosen up,to convey movement, and to concentrate the mind. We will be covering a number of techniques using various mediums.

We will then move onto a Proportional study, where the basic rules of measurement will be demonstrated, followed by students having the opportunity to draw the human figure, with on going tuition

We will finish the session with a ‘Lifting Out’ technique in which the students will be working with charcoal and an eraser. This reverses the usual drawing procedure, in which the darkest tones are built up gradually, here you work from dark to light, picking out the highlights with an eraser. This method encourages an unfussy approach.

Tea & Coffee provided. Need to bring your own lunch!

The workshop cost is 43 please with a 10 deposit. Max places is 12. The preferred method of payment for the deposit is by BACS.

14 September 2024

JULIE DUNSTER

OIL PAINTING A LANDSCAPE

list of materials (oil or acrylics)

Stainless steel turps container or jar with secure screw top lid containing odourless mineral spirits.
40/60 linseed oil and oms mix or oil painting medium in screw top jar, or solvent free gel

Oil paint options
These are what I use. You dont have to go and buy more paint if you dont have these – aim to have traditional primaries in (red, yellow and blue) plus white, and then another primary of each which appears comparatively warmer/cooler in relationsee example below. Personally I like Michael Harding or Jacksons Artists oil paint.

Traditional or water mixable as follows:
Reduced palette: Michael Harding Scarlet Lake, Yellow Lake, Ultramarine Blue, White and Transparent Oxide Red (great for those with less colour mixing experience) And/Or Split Primary Palette: (for those with more colour mixing experience) Cadmium Red, Permanent Magenta/Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Lemon ( or yellow lake), Cadmium Yellow pale, Yellow Ochre, Cobalt blue or Pthalo + White, Ultramarine Blue, Transparent Red Oxide, Raw Umber, Titanium White

I also regularly use kings blue light on my palette.
One or two 40cm x 30cm or 30cm x 24cm (depending on preference) primed board or canvas will be enough, but please ask people to get quality surfaces like Belle Arti or to give cheap canvases/boards a coat of nonabsorbent gesso by Michael Harding as it can be so frustrating for people to fight with a cheap overly absorbent surface!

People are welcome to work in acrylics if they don’t need support on paint
handling.

9 November 2024

LISA TAKAHASHI

Workshops in 2025

22 February 2025

JAKE WINKLE

3 May 2025

LISA PARKYN

For more information please contact ourworkshop organiser

workshops@seatonartsociety.co.uk