February 3,
4 and 5

Nancy O’Toole AFCA

Lions Hall

West Coast and European Scenes

3rd: 5:30-9:00
4/5: 09:30-04:30

All levels; maximum 16

$150

Acrylics

The pleasure of painting is in the doing and in the sharing! To that end I hold nothing back in teaching, and will share with students a little of what has been learned in my 30 plus years of painting and teaching. Shapes, values, intensity, gradation, colour, use of transparents, acrylic techniques and much more will be touched upon. As painting is visual, the importance of Demo’s is utmost, and there will be as many demos as needed or wanted, starting with one each day. It is very important that you observe the demos instead of taking notes. Questions however are encouraged during demos, and a set of notes will be given out at the workshop.

Students will paint in the afternoon with my help and all levels of painters are welcomed. Hopefully all students will go home with at least one or two paintings completed.

Materials list:

Acrylic Opaque colours- Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow middle, Cad. Yellow Deep, Cad Orange, Burnt Umber, Cad Red middle or dark, and Cobalt or Ultramarine Blue, medium Magenta.

Transparent Colours- Nickel Azo Yellow, Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold, Quinacridone Burnt Orange, Quinacridone Red light, Dioxazine Purple, Pthalo Green and Pthalo Blue.

Brushes – Brights, 2” square flat edge, 1” square flat edge, Middle size round (fine tip), rigger (fine tip).

Canvas: 2 or 3 small to medium size canvas up to 24x30. Spare canvases are good as well. At least 1 or 2 small TSH MAT boards will be supplied to each student to practise upon. NOTE: A stable board to tape the mat boards onto is required.

Other supplies: Garbage bags, paper towels, large bucket (ice cream size), gloss medium, pencil for sketching, sketch pad, bar of Ivory soap, hair dryer.

Nancy has graciously offered to start her workshop with a potluck supper on Friday evening as a chance for her to meet everyone, and to give us all an opportunity to set up. She plans to do an initial demo and then we can all be off to the races Saturday morning! This is going to be a great workshop opportunity for anyone working in acrylics.