Eggs! Still Life Painting in Oils and Acrylics

with Lucy Burton

Tuesday 15th July

10am to 4pm

£105

Suitable for all levels, including beginners

This workshop is about so much more than just painting an egg…it’s about an arrangement of shapes, of colour relationships and subtle shifts in colour and tone.  We will discuss compositional ideas and guidelines, how to mix colours accurately and how to use your ‘artistic licence’ to inject colour into the shadows.

Inspired by the work of Carol Marine/ Ans Debije and Dennis Perrin, the simple shapes and lack of fine detail will enable us to loosen up our brushwork and encourage us to paint in their expressive style.

We will be sketching out our composition on canvas, before applying the paint in a dynamic and interesting way: focusing on colour mixing, brushwork and composition.

What will be supplied

Eggs and crockery

Coloured backgrounds

An anglepoise lamp

Materials to bring.

A canvas or board minimum A4, maximum A3, rectangular or square

A selection of brushes eg. Rosemary Ivory Short Flats nos. 2,3,5, Ivory Filbert size 0

A selection of artist quality paints oils or acrylics e.g. Daler Rowney starter set

A black sharpie and a ‘fine liner’ pen (or similar) – the school has some of these for you to use

Palette knife – e.g. Winsor and Newton size 22

Paper palette and a box to take your work home in

A phone or IPAD for taking photos

Oils only: A jar and some low odour thinners/ white spirit substitute for cleaning your brushes, some rags or plenty of tissues to wipe brushes clean. 

Optional extra items

‘Liquin’ painting medium if working in oils

A ‘Stay-Wet’ palette if working in acrylics

What else to bring

Complimentary refreshments are available in the Common Room at breaktimes. Please bring a packed lunch. Parking is available on site, in the overflow car park, on the road and at the Village Hall.