Taking Inspiration – from Ruben’s ‘The Union of Earth and Water’

• We’ll explore the shape and colours to bring out the best in the human body –
• We will explore proportions and the complexity of shape as the body moves –
• For those who enjoy life classes this is a precursor to just sketching ad-lib with a model –

Materials to Bring:

• 1 full sheet of watercolour paper – cold press 300gsm or a pad of paper of similar weight – at lease A3 in size
• Paint Colours – Ultramarine Blue – Phthalo Blue – Raw Sienna – Quinacridone Gold or Australian Red Gold – Alizarin Crimson and Quinacridone Magenta – Cadmium Yellow Deep or similar colours
• White Gouache
• Black Waterproof Pigment Ink
• A nib pen to work your ink onto the paper

Brushes – at least those below –

but please bring whatever you have in your kit:

• 1 x wide wash brush – for wet work, and
• 1 x wide wash brush – Goat Hair recommended – for dry work
• 1 x calligraphy brush for detailed line work and layering of your colours

Other Tools:

• 1 x old kitchen spray bottle – washed out and ready to have clean water to spray across your paints – I recommend an old ‘Windex’ Bottle of similar to give you a good spray of water.
• a 2B pencil and if you would like a rubber
• Hair dryer to dry your work between layers
• Backing board (core board or similar from Bunnings) and tape to manage your paper – we don’t use an easel we tape the paper to the backing board so we can move the paper and tilt or turn as needed to manage your paint and water.

Paper towel to wipe up your spills

The Covid Policy for these Workshops is that you will be:

• Totally refunded your Ticket Price if there is a cancellation due to Covid
• If you can’t attend for any other reason a full refund will be available up to 7 days before the Workshop.
• If there is an emergency after that it will be to the discretion of Wyn and Eckersley’s as to the refund available.
• If there is no show on the day there is no refund available.