Anders Zorn invented a very simple palette of 3 colours plus white that he used to paint his portraits. In this workshop you will learn to paint tonally using this palette, starting with a simple still life and progressing into a subject of your own choice. This could be a portrait from a photo, a self-portrait form a mirror, or another still life (set up by the tutor).
Catherine MacDiarmid is an award winning artist from Kendal and has exhibited widely. She featured in the recent New Light Art Prize hosted at Rheged, and regularly has work in the Mall Galleries, London. She was a semi-finalist in the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, and painted renowned journalist and news reporter John Snow, live on the Sky Arts channel in 2020. Catherine has 29 years’ experience teaching art courses and workshops.
Please bring with you:
* Oil or acrylic colours - Titanium White, Black, Yellow Ochre and Cadmium Red (Vermillion can replace the Red).
* Pots for solvents (oil painting) or water (acrylic painting). These must be glass if you have solvents.
*Some painting brushes of varying size (they do not have to all be hog-hair brushes and a variety is good). Include one large soft one for blending technique.
*Material cotton rags.
*Something to use as a palette to mix colours on – disposable palette or tray.
*Palette knife.
*2 x sheets of primed paper in the size you want to paint. Other surfaces for painting on could be included but not necessary. Anything is okay for painting as long as it is well primed with a GESSO primer.
*Overalls or old clothes.
For Oils only:
*Turps, White spirit or odour free solvent to clean brushes.
*Solvent (pure turps, Zest it or low odour alternative, Linseed Oil or other oil medium to dilute your paint with.
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
10am-4pm £68 pp
Max number of 14 people | Minimum age 16
Please note tickets are non-refundable. Exchanges to other classes by the same tutor may be offered more than 2 weeks before the start date (subject to availability).
Catherine MacDiarmid is an award winning artist from Kendal and has exhibited widely. She featured in the recent New Light Art Prize hosted at Rheged, and regularly has work in the Mall Galleries, London. She was a semi-finalist in the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, and painted renowned journalist and news reporter John Snow, live on the Sky Arts channel in 2020. Catherine has 29 years’ experience teaching art courses and workshops.
Please bring with you:
* Oil or acrylic colours - Titanium White, Black, Yellow Ochre and Cadmium Red (Vermillion can replace the Red).
* Pots for solvents (oil painting) or water (acrylic painting). These must be glass if you have solvents.
*Some painting brushes of varying size (they do not have to all be hog-hair brushes and a variety is good). Include one large soft one for blending technique.
*Material cotton rags.
*Something to use as a palette to mix colours on – disposable palette or tray.
*Palette knife.
*2 x sheets of primed paper in the size you want to paint. Other surfaces for painting on could be included but not necessary. Anything is okay for painting as long as it is well primed with a GESSO primer.
*Overalls or old clothes.
For Oils only:
*Turps, White spirit or odour free solvent to clean brushes.
*Solvent (pure turps, Zest it or low odour alternative, Linseed Oil or other oil medium to dilute your paint with.
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
10am-4pm £68 pp
Max number of 14 people | Minimum age 16
Please note tickets are non-refundable. Exchanges to other classes by the same tutor may be offered more than 2 weeks before the start date (subject to availability).