Sketchbook Practice 2020 – A Virtual Exhibition
Visit out virtual gallery and take a look at some of the works that our students made during the workshop in the last year.
Portrait Painting Materials List
Each student can use whatever set of colours they prefer or already have, between acrylics, gouache or oil paints. Color set (either acrylics, oil or gouache): primary colors+black and white. Extra useful colors: yellow ochre, sap green, payne’s grey, burnt umber. Canvas paper block for color testing and sketches Canvas cardboards, 20×30 or smaller. Sketching…
Sketchbook Practice: Pastels&Pencils Materials List
Canson Mi teintes/Lana rough colored paper/Any dark tonal pastel paper cut to the size of your sketchbook page. Pastel set, either stick pastels, or dry pastels in pencil form like carbothello Normal colored pencils, it can be oil based like polychromos or any soft not dry kind + White pencil for highlights, same kind. White…
Sketchbook Practice: Monsters – Materials List
Mixed Media/Watercolor Sketchbook, min A5 size, paper min 200 gsm Colors: either watercolors, pencils, inks, gouache, acrylics… whatever you already have and are comfortable using. Permanent black ink, can be bottle and brush or brush pen Old naturalistic/animal/national geographic magazines or random animal/landscape/flowers images printed for the web. Scissors Glue Pigment liners/pens for contour lines/markers.
Drawing | Featured | Mixed media | Watercolor
Painting on location and the practice of mindful observation
Painting on location is a practice that requires mindfulness and kindness towards ourselves. What we put on paper may not always be perfect or satisfying to our inner critic, but the time we spend in communion with the beauty before us, our eyes wide open and receptive, is an invaluable gift.