Workshop: 'A Bank of Primroses' with Jane Betteridge

Join Jane Betteridge on Thursday 11th February at 3:30pm UK time as she paints a serene woodland scene.

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Using the reference photograph for inspiration you will turn it into a painting by leaving out or adding to various elements such as detail, colour and light. Using watercolours, allowing the paints to blend and merge on the paper and adding some dynamism by the addition of acrylic ink.

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Recommended materials list:

• Good quality watercolour paper stretched if less than 300lb. I’m using Saunders Waterford, high white, 300lb with a ‘not’ surface. Size 38 x 38cm square

• A selection of watercolour brushes in various sizes including a large wash brush, a rigger and a flat brush for lifting out. • Watercolour paints in:-

Olive green

Lunar blue

Lemon yellow

Indian yellow

Alizarin crimson

Vandyke brown

Green gold

• Acrylic Inks:-

Sepia

Lemon Yellow

• Windsor and Newton Granulation Medium

• White gouache

Lake District 'expressions' with Robert Dutton

Join professional artist Robert Dutton for this exciting Special Arty Class using a photo of Grange in Borrowdale, situated in the Northern part of the Lake District (a place Robert frequently returns to to paint). Taking place on Thursday 28th January at 2PM UK time.

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Robert will teach you how to combine acrylic inks and soft pastel in an expressive way to loosen up your technique, let your ideas flow and relate to your subject in a contemporary way, much more than simply depicting it.

The end result will combine washes of beautiful free flowing drawn and painted base colours with layers of pastels on top to give real depth and surface interest to your painting. Using the tooth of the paper to great effect, eye catching expressive textures will really stand out, adding another exciting dimension to your painting.

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Media Acrylic ink and soft pastel

Recommended materials list:

Fixative (Unison Colour brand highly recommended) Soft and hard pastels. Unison Colour soft pastels and Royal Talens Rembrandt pastels in combination to give both soft and a more ‘harder’ mark when pastel painting Robert will be using a selected range of Unison Colours from his ‘Moorland Set’ and the ‘Midnight Set’ of 8 rich darks - another set of Unison colour soft pastels but use your own light and dark shades to get a feel for the techniques with close as you can colour matches in Roberts finished mixed media painting Robert will be using a range of his acrylic ink palette as follows. The bold ones are the ones which are highly recommended you should have: Acrylic inks - any brand. Highly recommended Liquitex/ Royal Talens Amsterdam inks or Daler-Rowney acrylic inks in the following colours: Indigo, Brilliant Green, Viridian Green Ultramarine Blue Lemon Yellow Transparent Burnt Sienna Cobalt Blue Cerulean Blue Crimson White acrylic ink ESSENTIAL - any brand Watercolour paper - 300gsm (140lb) ‘not' surface 100% cotton rag. Robert will be using Canson Heritage ‘not’ 300gsm (140lb), size recommended 20 x 22 inches 51 x 56cm or a size you wish to work with. Kitchen roll Spray diffuser Hair dryer Water and water pots and mixing wells deep enough for fluid ink washes over large areas Soft 6B Graphite stick or similar Big brushes are essential. See Robert Dutton's Recommended Brushes on Patreon Thin A4 (or similar) photocopy paper for masking techniques Upright easel, drawing board and strong clips (such as bulldog clips) to secure your paper to the board

Workshop: Magic Lakeland Light with Robert Dutton

Join professional artist Robert Dutton with another exciting ‘go with the flow' 2-3hr workshop as he teaches you how to use acrylic inks and colourful expressive pastel techniques to create a colourful and expressive Lakeland scene. Taking place on Tuesday 9th February at 3:30pm UK time.

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In this workshop, Robert will explain his choice of materials in greater depth and their importance to you as an artist, explain why paper surfaces are important and how each can offer something new and unique to you (especially with expressive techniques) and demonstrate exciting ways of combining unique painting methods of brush work, colour application and pastel painted layers to express your ideas in a whole new creative direction.

By taking full advantage of the quick drying properties of colourful inks and the painterly mark making approach with soft pastels, learn how to create special effects with both media in combination you will fill your painting with bright magical light by contrasting light and dark and drawn and painted marks in the same painting.

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Media Acrylic ink and soft pastel

Recommended materials list:

Fixative (Unison Colour brand highly recommended)

Soft and hard pastels. Unison Colour soft pastels and Royal Talens Rembrandt pastels in combination to give both soft and a more ‘harder’ mark when pastel painting.

Robert will be using a selected range of Unison Colours from his ‘Moorland Set’ and the ‘Midnight Set’ of 8 rich darks - another set of Unison colour soft pastels Robert collaborated with to create which also has become really popular with pastel artists also.

Colours highly recommended you will need (or similar) Carbon Black 1, Carbon Black 2, Dark 23, Dark 21, Dark 22 and Dark 24 Essential.WHITE, A3, A31, A34, A35, OB11, OB10, OB4, Y12, GRN24, GRN21, GRN13, GRN14, GRN17, GRN18, LT2, OR2, DK24, NE4, NE13, NE7, BE6, BE23, LT11Rembrandt pastels - your favourites but WHITE TR100.5 AND VIOLET TR536.3 (OR SIMILAR) ARE ESSENTIAL Acrylic inks - any brand. Highly recommended Liquitex/ Royal Talens Amsterdam inks or Daler-Rowney acrylic inks in the following colours:

Indigo,

Brilliant Green,

Viridian Green

Ultramarine Blue

Lemon Yellow

Transparent Burnt Sienna

Cobalt Blue

Cerulean Blue

Crimson

White acrylic ink ESSENTIAL - any brand

Watercolour paper - 300gsm (140lb) ‘not' surface 100% cotton rag. Robert will be using Canson Heritage ‘not’ 300gsm (140lb), size recommended 20 x 22 inches 51 x 56cm or a size you wish to work with.

Kitchen roll

Spray diffuser

Hair dryer

Water and water pots and mixing wells deep enough for fluid ink washes over large areas

Soft 6B Graphite stick or similar

Big brushes are essential. Robert Dutton's Recommended Brushes on Patreon

Thin A4 (or similar) photocopy paper for masking techniques

Upright easel, drawing board and strong clips (such as bulldog clips) tos ecure your paper to the board