Unleash your expression with acrylic paint in this workshop designed to expand painted mark-making skills.
Discover different painting techniques, colour-mixing, painting mediums and layering processes to boost your confidence in painting with acrylics.
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:
*Basic range of acrylic paints
*Range of brushes, including large flat brushes at least 1 inch (household brushes are fine)
*Small sponge
*Rags for wiping brushes
*A couple of large plates or trays to use as palettes and for mixing paint on.
Some grease proof paper.
*Plastic/glass pots for water
*Water spray bottle
*Pastels (optional)
* Acrylic painting medium (optional as tutor will bring some)
*At least 3 large A2 or bigger) sheets of paper. These should be primed with acrylic primer prior to painting on as it saves precious acrylic paint.
* Some interesting collage papers if you have them, scissors and glue (these add interest and texture into a painting)
*Overalls
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
10-4pm
Minimum age 16 years
Maximum number 14
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
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).
Discover different painting techniques, colour-mixing, painting mediums and layering processes to boost your confidence in painting with acrylics.
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:
*Basic range of acrylic paints
*Range of brushes, including large flat brushes at least 1 inch (household brushes are fine)
*Small sponge
*Rags for wiping brushes
*A couple of large plates or trays to use as palettes and for mixing paint on.
Some grease proof paper.
*Plastic/glass pots for water
*Water spray bottle
*Pastels (optional)
* Acrylic painting medium (optional as tutor will bring some)
*At least 3 large A2 or bigger) sheets of paper. These should be primed with acrylic primer prior to painting on as it saves precious acrylic paint.
* Some interesting collage papers if you have them, scissors and glue (these add interest and texture into a painting)
*Overalls
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
10-4pm
Minimum age 16 years
Maximum number 14
We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.
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).