Painting and Drawing: An Introduction

About this course

This course will take students through guided exercises exploring the basic principles of painting and drawing, Line - Shape - Tone - Colour – Design. Practices include tonal painting (black, white & grey), colour mixing (paint), colour painting, tonal drawing (charcoal), line drawing (pencil), perspective (line, pencil) and oil painting (paint supplied - tone, colour, shape).

Materials Required: Please bring to your class: (Please do not purchase any materials until you confirm the course is going ahead)
- Charcoal: Compressed and Willow sticks
- Pencils: 3b, 4b, 5b
- Kneadable Eraser
- Pad of Acrylic Painting Paper (A3)
- Pad of Cartridge Drawing Paper (A3)
- Water container, large jar or 2lt milk container cut in half etc

At your first class Dennis will confirm the following. Please do NOT buy paint or brushes prior to the first class.
- Acrylic Paint – Essential: Arylamine Yellow, Phthalo Blue, Quinacridone Magenta, Titanium White. Artist quality such as Art spectrum or Atelier etc recommended
- Selection of Painting Brushes
- Painting Palette

Good quality paint and paper are best purchased from specialist suppliers such as Eckersley's (Braddon, Phillip) Generic materials can be found at discount stores such as the Reject Shop; Target or BigW. Please bring your own refreshments on the day