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Mixing the Right Colour Print E-mail

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Instructor: Holly McWilliams

Sick of mixing huge vats of the wrong color? Tired of spending most of your time mixing smurge on the palette instead of putting fresh colour on to the canvas? Applied color mixing to the rescue!!!! This 2-day class goes through some of the basics that will develop a foundation of color awareness and stop you from struggling. Open to oil, acrylic and watercolor.

 

  • Two dates to choose from:

  1. June 28 & 29, (6-9pm)
  2. July 21 & 23, (6-9pm)

$110+gst

*Supplies not included


This class is open to the medium that you are working with already. Please bring all of the supplies, brushes and paints that you work with and find handy to have while you are creating. Below are a few things that we will defiantly be using.

  • Sketch book with white paper
  • Pencil and eraser for notes
  • Black permanent marker
  • 12x16 palette. Stay Wet palette is very useful for acrylic. Disposable or glass palette for oil
  • 14x18 canvas or board
  • 12x16 canvas or board
  • Paint knife

Paint

Cadmium Yellow medium

Lemon yellow (hansa will work as well)

Cadmium Red medium

Quinacradone rose (or red)

Ultramarine blue

Manganese blue (cerulean or pthalo blue can work)

Transparent red oxide

Titanium white

Extra's that are handy to have but not necessary for this course:

Yellow ochre

Cadmium orange

Manganese violet or dioxanine purple

Mediums and turps:

Oil - No hardware store turps please! They are very toxic and tend to give people bad headaches, even if they say no odour.

-Eco house turpentine for oils

Acrylic - Gloss medium and varnish and or a retarder

Brushes: please bring the brushes you already have. These brushes are suggestions

Oil - hogs hair brushes. Acrylic - synthetic brushes

Flat brushes

Size #2, 4, 8, 10,

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