Painting for All

This 10 week painting course is for beginners and improvers to build confidence and skill
Tutor: Elizabeth Archbold, MFA in Painting

Date: September 25th, 2023 – Jan – 22nd 2024
Day: Monday
Time : 6.00pm – 8.00pm
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Venue : Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Cost: €130 for ten classes

“Painting for All”

Acrylic paint is a versatile medium that can be used to achieve brightly coloured and fast drying paintings.  This ten week course will look at different ways of applying Acrylic paint referencing paintings made since the medium first became widely available in the 1960’s and will look also at more historic examples of paintings and paint application techniques used.  With a focus on building practical skills and knowledge the course is expanded to include a brief introduction to line drawing from observation and will have one class taking place as a Saturday group gallery visit.  Students will gain painting experience in each class where painting projects will be provided in tandem with demonstrations or slide projection presentations.  Students will be encouraged to reflect on class learning by working at home between classes if possible.  In preparation for the course students could collect images and paintings that interest them and start a notebook for sketching out ideas for paintings that they would like to make using pencil, colouring pencil, marker, or collage.

Winsor & Newton Galleria Acrylic paint, 60ml tubes:

– Primary Yellow

– Process Magenta

– Process Cyan

– Titanium White

Optional:

– Yellow Ochre

– Red Ochre

– Ultramarine Blue

– Cadmium Red/ Vermillion

Selection of paint brushes. For example:

-Richard Oliver Squirrel Wash large

-Richard Oliver Sable 65 No.5

-Winsor & Newton Galleria Filbert Synthetic No.8

-Winsor & Newton Winton Flat Bristle No. 1

-Daler Rowney, System 3 Round Synthetic No. 6

-Household paintbrush/Varnish brush – 3″

-Large tear off paper palette pad

-Recycled water containers

-A4 spiral mixed media sketch pad

Other useful materials:

Technical pencil

White gesso primer

Canvas boards 10″x12″

Notebook