Course Schedule

Week One – Contrasting Colour. Colourful Landscapes (Oil Pastels and Cartridge Paper, Sketchbook) 

Week Two – Positive and Negative Spaces. Botanical Watercolour and Pastel Paintings (Oil Pastels, Watercolours, and Cartridge Paper, Sketchbook) 

Week Three - Ellipses and Measuring. Still Life of Pots and Vegetables (Oil Pastels, Mixed Media and Cartridge Paper, Sketchbook) 

Week Four –Upside Down Drawing. Painting Birds. (Watercolour Pencils, Watercolour Brushes and Fine Liner Pens) 

Week Five - Watercolour Techniques. Stretching Paper. Still life of Flowers (Watercolours, Watercolour Brushes and Watercolour Paper) 

Week Six – Drawing and Painting Faces. (Watercolours, Watercolour Brushes and Watercolour Paper) 

Week Seven – Perspective, Shape and Tone. Painting Urban Cityscapes. (Acrylics, Acrylic Brushes and Acrylic Paper or Canvas, Sketchbook)

Week Eight – Acrylic Techniques. Painting a Fruit Bowl. (Acrylics, Acrylic Brushes and Acrylic Paper or Canvas, Sketchbook)

Week Nine -Sketching. Painting Seascapes (Acrylics, Acrylic Brushes and Acrylic Paper or Canvas, Sketchbook)

Week Ten – Mark Making. Botanical Acrylic and Pastel Paintings (Oil Pastels, Acrylics, and Acrylic Paper or Canvas, Sketchbook) 

Week Eleven - Grid Drawing. Mixed Media Buildings. (Mixed Media Collage, Acrylic Paper or Canvas)

Week Twelve- Still life. (You choose) 

 New Materials list (includes canvas option)

Pencils - Selection of soft to hard Pencils 2H, B, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B

Set of Black Fine Liner Pens 0.05mm, 0.1mm, 0.3mm, 0.5mm, 0.8mm

A3 Pad Cartridge Paper over 150gsm

A4 Sketchbook with Cartridge Paper over 100gms

Set of Watercolour Paints- The more expensive the colours the better quality paint you are getting ie. they have a higher pigment content. Avoid cheap sets of paints with lots of colours, you will find that the more expensive pigments such as cadmiums are missing and the colour quality is not so good. Colours may have the same names but different brands will vary. Daler-Rowney Artists’  or  Winsor & Newton and Cotman are good quality brands.

Set of Watercolour Brushes. Size wise a large flat brush or set similar to these https://www.cassart.co.uk/painting/brushes-2/synthetic-1/pro-arte-prolene-plus-synthetic-brush-flat-series-008.htm?nosto=searchpage-nosto-1 and a set of round brushes similar to this set are useful. https://www.cowlingandwilcox.com/watercolour-brushes/3992-da-vinci-cosmotop-spin-5580-single-round-watercolour-brush?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzeHpnK2Q9gIVeIBQBh19LgaOEAQYASABEgJIVPD_BwE#/454-brushes_sizes-size_16. Acrylic /Synthetic brushes are fine for beginners and you will be able to use these for both watercolours and acrylics. The more expensive sable brushes hold more water and paint and can only be used for watercolours.  

A3 Pad Watercolour Paper. Comes in different weights and different surfaces – Smooth/fine HP – hot pressed, Medium/NOT or CP- cold pressed and Rough. A good way to try out papers is to get a small trial/selection pack or buy some single sheets. Different makes have different qualities, some are more absorbent, some tougher, there are also different shades of white. For general purposes and demos I use a medium weight, medium surface 140lb/300gsm ‘Bockingford’ Paper. Other good makes are ‘Arches’ or ‘Waterford’.

Set of Oil Pastels.

Set of Acrylic Paints. Colours - Warm  Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue OR Cobalt blue. Cool (Alizarin) Crimson, Lemon Yellow, Phthalo (GS-Green Shade) OR Prussian Blue, Cerulean Blue is a lighter alternative. Paynes Grey, White. (Good brand: Daler-Rowney)

Set of Acrylic Brushes. Size wise a large flat brushe and a mix of these size would be good https://www.cassart.co.uk/painting/brushes-2/synthetic-1/pro-arte-prolene-plus-synthetic-brush-flat-series-008.htm?nosto=searchpage-nosto-1 

A3 Pad Acrylic Paper over 220 grms. (Daler Rowney)

Rubber and Putty Rubber

Long Ruler

Masking Tape

Masking Fluid

Palette A white ceramic plate makes a good palette, as do yogurt pots especially for washes. A large palette with lots of spaces for mixing is particularly useful when working in the studio – as shown above. You will also need two water pots; glass jam jars are good.

Optional - Stretched Canvas for Painting: 40 x 50cm, 12.3-oz Gesso Primed 100% Cotton Canvases for Acrylic Painting and Pouring