Painting Springtime in Oils

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This one day workshop will focus on painting flowers in oils in an expressive style. Throughout the day we will make several studies, painting directly from life in Rosemoor’s beautiful gardens. We will focus on working quickly and loosely to create lively paintings, exploring different methods and techniques, looking at things such as drawing, colour, tone, simplification and building an attractive ‘paint surface’.
 
You will be shown demonstrations of different techniques and have one-to-one support from the tutor during the day as you complete your own painting.

Please bring with you:

• Your booking reference number
• Own kit recommended (as described below) but some equipment may be loaned by the tutor if you are new to oil painting. Please get in touch if you do not have your own equipment.

Lunch and refreshments included.

Tutor: Tom Stevenson

Own kit recommended - equipment list:

• Paints – as a minimum you’ll need titanium white, ultramarine below, rose madder or quinacridone, cadmium red, cadmiun lemon, burnt sienna, viridian green, yellow ochre. Please bring kit you are familiar and comfortable using. The colours listed below are those the tutor will be using - you might like to have these or equivalents in your palette to allow you to mix the full range of colours you might encounter in the gardens.
• Odourless thinners e.g. ‘zest it’  Please note that turpentine should not be used.
• Brushes – a mix of sizes. Soft watercolour brushes are useful for this sort of painting as they let you work fast.
• An easel - the easel will need to be portable and allow you to work outside.
• A well-seasoned palette that gives you enough space to work without being cramped. If you don’t have a large palette that is ‘broken in’ i.e. has a good coating of dried oil and paint, a sheet of perspex or similar, 30 x 40 cm would be suitable and a good size.
• Pencils and sketchbook/ paper.
• A selection of panels, canvases or canvas boards to work on.

You’ll be working outside for much of the day - please remember to dress appropriately for the weather with extra layers or sun protection as needed.
 
Equipment and colours used by the tutor:

• Large wooden French box easel 
• Soft brushes rather than hog, a mixture of quite small watercolour brushes and synthetic sable, eg. Silver-handled Pro Arte ‘Acrylix’ and W&N Cotman. Rounds, riggers and filberts.
• Standard palette is:
  13. Titanium White 
  13. Cadmium Yellow
  13. Cadmium Lemon
  13. Cadmium Red
  13. Rowney Rose 
  13. Opaque Oxide of Chromium 
  13. Raw Umber
  13. Burnt Sienna
  13. Yellow Ochre
  13. Ultramarine Blue
  13. Pthalo blue
  14. Viridian Green