Workshops

Venue and dates yet to be announced.

If you would like to attend further acrylic painting workshops in 2012 please contact me with your name and postal address to be added onto my workshops mailing list.  You will get to know first hand, when and where my classes are running.  I have a possible venue in Hitchin (not far from Tim's old classroom) with ample parking and some disabled access.  I plan to keep the prices as close to Tim's old prices as possible. If we have enough interest I can then book this venue.

All names and addresses are kept confidential and will not be passed onto other parties.

What do I bring along to Gilli's Workshops?

MATERIALS LIST

An Apron (or wear old clothes - acrylics do not wash out once dry)

A jar or pot suitable to hold water

The following acrylic or synthetic brushes & tools:

• Size 000 or Size 00 round (for fine detail)
• Size 1 or Size 0 round (for detail)
• Size 2 fan hog (for foliage, trees, grasses, waves & blending)
• Size 1 rigger or scriptliner (for branches, trees, fine lines & grasses)
• Size 3 or 4 round (for washes & glazes)
• Size 2 or 3 Flat Hog (for smaller areas of stippling, scumble & dry-brush)
• Size 103 palette knife (for marking foliage, sticks, water & creating bark)
• Acrylic gel retarder or slow drying gel (required only on hot days)

Paper suitable for acrylic painting (System 3, Cryla, Galeria & other brands), stretched watercolour paper (minimum of 140lb/300gsm, NOT i.e. Bockingford) or Watercolour board - ASK YOUR ART SHOP.

Stay Wet palette or ceramic plate with cling film ( I recommend the later, as I will explain on the class)

Tubes of the following acrylic colours:

• Mars Black
• Titanium White
• Hooker's Green
• Lemon Yellow
• Ultramarine Blue
• Azure blue or Coeruleum blue
• Crimson or Cadmium red
• Yellow Ochre
• Burnt Umber
• Burnt Sienna
• or alternatively a 10 tube introductory set with a tube of Hooker's green

Yourself!

PRIVATE ART SOCIETY BOOKINGS

I recommend at least two sessions lasting two and a half hours each (5 hours in total) to get to grips with a basic acrylic painting.  I charge £20 per hour, plus travelling expenses (petrol) and will travel within a 30 mile radius of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.  I cover the whole of Hertfordshire and part of Bedfordshire. 

Unfortunately, I no longer do demonstrations.

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Strawberries painted step by step

A typical subject that we tackle in my workshops

EXHIBITIONS - 2012

12th April to 29th April 2012

The World's Wife, Obsidian Art, Layby Farm, Old Risborough Road, Stoke Mandeville, Bucks HP22 5XJ.

for further details telephone 01296 612150 or visit www.obsidianart.co.uk

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