You can choose to work in any medium over this weekend, however there is a large component on colour so please bring some coloured paint or gouache to work with.

Drawing – bring any drawing tools you like such as charcoal, pencil, pen, markers, pastel

Painting – bring watercolour, gouache, acrylic or oil paints in a basic range of colours. If you buy a starter kit somewhere this should have a broad enough range of colours to work with. If you are bringing single paints from your studio, please include warm and cool primaries, mixing / zinc white and titanium white at a minimum (and bring anything else you like as well).

I work with this basic palette a lot: Raw Umber, Paynes grey, Sap Green, Prussian blue (sparingly), Ultramarine blue, Naples Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Lemon Yellow, Indian Yellow, Pthalo green (sparingly), Cadmium red or Indian red (sparingly).

A selection of brushes with at least 1 that is 1cm or more wide. A mixture of filbert, flat and round is ideal but filbert if you can only have one type.

Plenty of paper (either a sketch pad designed for your medium or individual sheets). Don’t spend too much on this, these are for the exercises and you shouldn’t be worried about using them because of the cost. You could also just use cardboard cut from boxes, canvas offcuts or whatever you can put your hands on.

A few canvases, boards or decent pieces of paper for one or two finished pieces. More if you know you will make more work than that.

Rags

Solvents (or water) in resealable containers (we will be taking these home for disposal)

Palette

Easel / table / tarp (depending on how you like to work). If you’re not sure yet, just message me and we can work something out.

RECOMMENDED CLOTHING:

• Long sleeve shirt
• Hat (sunglasses aren’t ideal as they affect colour but a hat will usually give you enough shade. Of course wear sunnies if you need to).
• Jacket / jumper (it could be quite cold)
• Boots or covered footwear

PLUS:

• Sunscreen
• Insect repellent
• Water for drinking