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What does the workshop cover?We are delighted to be heading to the beautiful Boconnoc Estate for our art day. Based in one of the stable blocks with access to the grounds, we will spend time exploring nature to inspire our work. The day will be hosted by one of the LilyBoo team with the very talented Andrew Barrowman leading the art workshop. The day includes refreshments and lunch.
Our day will be spent focusing on landscape painting in oils. We will use the ‘alla prima’ technique where the painting is done wet into wet in one session – ‘first time’. We will cover the use of different
materials, techniques, composition and some colour mixing.
Course aims and skills/knowledge to be taught
● We will discuss different surfaces to paint onto and their different properties.
● Simplified composition.
● How to layout your oil painting palette.
● Which oil painting mediums to use – and when to use them (or not!).
● Different types of oil painting brushes and their uses..
● Split primary palette – warm and cool versions of the primary colours.
● Alla prima painting techniques.
● Cleaning up at the end of a painting session.
At the end of the day during the mini exhibition we will discuss what we have learnt and discovered and how we can apply those techniques in our own work.
What’s included?
Refreshments including lunch are included.
What you need to bring
Blankets will be provided and there will be seats available in the courtyard, should you wish to explore further into the grounds please bring a camping chair with you.
Please bring with you the following items:
● Apron or old clothing – to protect your clothes and, importantly, several large cotton rags for wiping brushes.
● Low odour turps (Zest It or Gamsol are good) and a painting medium such as linseed oil. A large sized jam jar with screw lid for transportation – you will need about half of a jam jar for this workshop.
● Any oil paint, palette knives, brushes etc that you currently use.
● We will bring some palette knives for you to try if you don’t have your own. Andrew will bring some basic paint colours in case you forget a tube or two but please bring any you already have.
● A palette for mixing your oil paint – Andrew uses glass but primed plywood is good or disposable tear off paper is ok.
● 2 small to medium sized primed canvases or boards (remember you have to take it home whilst wet Andrew has a good method for this which he will show you!). The surface can be white or primed with a ground colour such as burnt sienna or yellow ochre.
● Don’t forget you will need to transport your wet painting back with you so bring something that you can carry it in, or put it on if travelling by car. Clean pizza delivery boxes are good! A plastic bag is fine for transporting a wet palette home.
Who the workshop is suitable for
You can be a beginner or more advanced painter.
Who the workshop is run by
The extremely talented Andrew Barrowman will be leading the workshop with Hayley from LilyBoo hosting the day.
Andrew is an award winning landscape artist based in Cornwall. He predominantly paints in oils but is always keen to experiments with different median including charcoal, egg tempera and casein paints. He is an enthusiastic plein air sketcher and works outdoors in all weathers.
He was elected associate member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in May 2023 and full member of the Pastel Society in June 2023
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Boconnoc House and Estate, Boconnoc,Lostwithiel, Par, United Kingdom
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