Bring Your Favourite Weed to Me - Paint with Artist Wyn Vogel!

About this event

The Goal of this Workshop is to get you to look at the location/s around you and take inspiration – It can be a full Landscape/interpretation or you can dig into the detail and build a botanical out of your findings – so this Saturday is about Experimentation with the natural spaces of the Sunshine Coast – Queensland!

Tools/Materials to Bring

Arrive at 9:45am to be ready for a 10am Start. Remember to bring your Lunch - tea and coffee will be provided - but please bring a mug!

Please Bring – Some of the ‘Beach’ Weed from your morning walk – and a photo of the location to give you inspiration and help me guide you with interpretation to the level of detail you would like to represent in your Painting!

At least 1 full sheet 56 x 78cm – Arches 300gsm Cold Pressed Watercolour Paper!

And some smaller sheets of watercolour paper to try out ideas – again experimental so these can be scraps from other Work if you have them!

Please source a supply of Masking Fluid from your local Art Shop – we will do 2 versions of this artwork – using ½ sheet size – 56 x 38cm – 300gsm Watercolour Paper.

Experimenting with Masking Fluid to give you an alternative level of detail in your Artwork – see the images above, and 1 x ½ sheet playing with opaque and transparent techniques without any Masking Fluid – just ink highlights at the end.

PAINTS | Watercolour Paint – Suggestions below – but please bring whatever colours you have in your kit

• Ultramarine Blue
• Indigo
• Cadmium Yellow – Deep
• Phthalo Blue
• Organic Vermillion and/or Deep Cadmium Red – or similar colours
• Perylene Green
• Quinacridone Gold
• Titanium White – or White Gouache whichever you have in your paint box – this is an important pigment for a change

Inks to Bring – Watercolour Inks – any inks you have you are welcome to bring – for the highlights Wyn uses: Black – waterproof ink any brand, and nib pen for her details.

A Palette to mix your paints in – not a flat palette but preferably one with deep bucket holes or bring small bowls that will allow you to mix puddles of paint – this is important for the style of Work we will do!

Brushes – at least those below – but please bring whatever brushes you have in your kit:

At Least 1 of each brush below – more will help you:

• 1 each x 1/2 inch and 3/4inch Angle Shader
• 1 x wide wash brush at least 2 inches in width – for wet work, we recommend the 2 inch Art Spectrum Soft Varnish Brush – I would recommend you have at least 2 with you, and
• 1 x wide dry brush at least 2 inches in width – feel it with you hand and maker sure it is very soft Goat Hair recommended – for dry work –
• 1 x Squirrel Needle point or Chinese style calligraphy brush for detailed line work and layering of your colours – we recommend No10 – NEEF Squirrel Needle Point – see the images below and on the cover photo for guidance!

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.
• Paper Towel and a large Bath Towel in case we decide to go really fully – Wet on Wet
• a 2B pencil and if you would like a rubber
• Hair dryer to dry your work between layers
• Backing board to tape your sample papers down (coreflute 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.

Pack a tasty lunch for yourself and we will have tea and coffee available for you.

Become a Creative Rewards Member and receive an additional 10% off art supplies from Eckersley’s in-store on the day of the workshop.

Session Date & Time: Saturday 12th September 10am – 3pm. 

Price: $95

Please click here to book, spaces limited!

Venue:

Eckersley’s Minyama Store Sunshine Coast
Shop 11 Cnr Nicklin Way and, Kensington Dr
Minyama, Queensland 4575
Phone: 07 5444 0311