“CREATIVE SKILL BUILDING IN ACRYLIC”

Your painting skills are built by practicing and training and by challenging yourself with new techniques and ideas. This intermediate level acrylic workshop will help you do just that.

We will spend two full days on fun and challenging drills and exercises involving speed, limited palette, limited and expressive brush strokes, tool use, different grounds and more.

Saturday June 1st and Sunday June 2nd, 10am until 4pm both days

$280 including taxes. Please reserve your easel by calling the studio at 604-250-5562, or by using the register link register

Reservation is confirmed by payment. Payments can be made by e-transfer to denecroft@gmail.com or in person in the studio. All payments must be received prior to May 25th 2024

“CREATIVE SKILL BUILDING IN ACRYLIC” - PART 2

Your painting skills are built by practicing and training and by

challenging yourself with new techniques and ideas. This

intermediate level acrylic workshop will help you do just that.

If you have taken PART 1 of this workshop that is great but not a

prerequisite doing PART 2. Expect new and challenging exercises in

this workshop.

We will spend 2 days on fun and challenging drills and exercises

involving speed, limited palette, shape making, limited and expressive

brush strokes, tool use, different grounds and more.

Materials List:

** Please arrive prepared with all of the following supplies **

Acrylic Paint – bring what you have but be sure to include:

titanium white

iron oxide black (or any black)

cad yellow light

cad red light

yellow ochre

dioxazine purple

pthalo green

ultramarine blue

pthalo blue (red shade)

alizarine OR quin magenta.

Quin gold OR trans yellow oxide OR trans red oxide for glazing. Bring

two out of three, or all 3 if you already have them.

Double check your paint tubes to confirm that you are not bringing

any oil, water mixable oil or open acrylics to this workshop.

Sketch book and pencil, spray bottle, ruler, water bucket, paper

towels or rags.

Gloss medium (you will only need a small bottle)

1/2 of a big sheet of water colour paper – 140 lb, cold pressed

(rough).

1/2 of a big sheet of water colour paper – 140 lb, hot pressed

(smooth).

One roll painters tape (green or blue, not white).

2 - 8x10 and 1 - 9x12 canvases.

1 - 8x10 wood panel.

I will be supplying other surfaces like yupo and pastel paper.

Hard-board, foam-core or cardboard - 18x24” is a good size, or

bigger, something to tape your WC paper to.

A good brush selection, you will also need a 1” and 2” flat or bright

(NOT a home depot brush). No soft watercolour brushes.

A few acrylic markers and ink pens. If you don’t have any we will

share.

A varied image/photo selection – landscape, figure, animals,

buildings etc… whatever interests you. Bring a variety of subject

matter to work with.

Palette knife.

Easel, if not provided by the facility. I am not a fan of table easels and

prefer to stand when painting. If you prefer to stand you will have to

bring a tall easel.

Any questions? Feel free to email me.