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Mixing the Right Colour

Instructor: Holly McWilliams
• April 28, 10am-3pm
• April 29, 11am-3pm

$150

Sick of mixing huge vats of the wrong colour? Tired of spending most of your time mixing smurge on the palette instead of putting fresh colour on to the canvas? Applied colour mixing to the rescue! This 3-day class goes through some of the basics that will develop a foundation of colour awareness and stop you from struggling. Open to oil, acrylic and watercolour.


  • SUPPLY LIST

This class is open to the medium that you are working with already. Please bring all of the supplies, brushes and paints that you work with and find handy to have while you are creating. Below are a few things that we will definitely be using.

  • Sketch book with white paper
  • Pencil and eraser for notes
  • Black permanent marker
  • 12x16 palette. Stay Wet palette is very useful for acrylic. Disposable or glass palette for oil
  • 14x18 canvas or board
  • 12x16 canvas or board
  • Paint knife
  • Paper towel - blue shop towel is the best!

Paint: It’s very important that you have these specific colors for the class

  • Cadmium Yellow medium
  • Lemon yellow (hansa will work as well)
  • Cadmium Red medium
  • Quinacradone rose (or red)
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Manganese blue (cerulean or pthalo blue can work)
  • Transparent red oxide
  • Titanium white

Extra's that are handy to have but not necessary for this course:

  • Yellow ochre
  • Cadmium orange
  • Manganese violet or dioxanine purple

Mediums and turps:

  • "Eco House" for oil - No hardware store turps please! They are very toxic and tend to give people bad headaches, even if they say no odour.
  • Acrylic - Gloss medium and varnish and or a retarder

Brushes: please bring the brushes you already have. These brushes are suggestions

  • Oil - hogs hair brushes.
  • Acrylic - synthetic brushes
  • Flat brushes Size #2, 4, 8, 10
 

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