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Materials that you will need for ‘Highland Cow’ painting lesson

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  • Acrylic paint colours: white, yellow ochre, burnt umber, cyan, burn sienna, (a little red).

       N.b. Please avoid using very cheap acrylic paint . It will be watery and dull in effect. Suggested brands:                 

      Sennelier, Daler Rowney System 3, Winsor & Newton, Golden, Jacksons.

 

  • Brushes – a large flat brush, or household paintbrush, a medium flat brush (approx. size 10) & smaller pointed brushes (approx. size 10 & size 2). I also use a palette knife and a rigger brush (which is optional). More brushes of varying sizes are really helpful and need to be in proportion to your surface i.e. canvas, paper, board.

 

  • Board/Paper - In this video I use a plywood panel 18 x 25.5 cm.  You can use 300g acrylic or watercolour paper. If you’re more experienced and have more time you can go bigger. I find that wooden panels are great for textured work like I use in this lesson. You can use a canvas panel, or canvas.

       n.b. I primed my wooden panel with GAC100, then Gesso. You can use white household emulsion, or just gesso.

 

Optional – finishing touch with Gloss Medium. This will protect your painting and make the colours look richer and deeper. I use Galleria.

 

TOOLS FOR TEXTURE (optional)

  • A palette knife, a household paint brush, cardboard, DIY tools, a sponge.

 

TOOLS FOR TRANSFERRING THE IMAGE (optional for those less confident to draw)

  • A pencil to draw free hand or carbon transfer paper (I use black) with biro, blue tac and a photo print of the reference image the same size as your board/paper.

 

TO PRINT (as reference)

  • I work from a colour reference photograph on standard photocopy paper. It can be useful to print your reference the same size as your Board/paper. A good print can help, perhaps use photo paper.

 

GENERAL ITEMS

  • Blue towel or kitchen roll.

  • A jar, or pot/s for water.

  • A palette, you can use an old plate, or vegetable tubs or greaseproof paper.

  • (request your free copy of my ‘Creating your own stay wet palette’ video)

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Acrylic paint is like glue, once dry it cannot be removed.

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If you are in the UK these are the suppliers which I use:

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Ken Bromley Art Supplies: https://www.artsupplies.co.uk/

Hobbycraft: https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/art-supplies

Jacksons:  https://www.jacksonsart.com/

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To book your place on this class click here.

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