Course Code: IO321
Tutor: Matt Carter
When: Thur 9.30am - 12.30pm
Dates: 29 July - 23 Sept 2021
Duration: 9 weeks
Maximum Enrolment: 10
Cost: $395
On this course you will learn to complete oil paintings in one session, often referred to as wet-into-wet or more correctly, Alla Prima. We will begin by going out into the streets around the school studio, observing urban compositions with their natural abstract qualities, paying attention to the overlooked and the everyday.
We will record these images with a camera [a phone camera is ideal] or by drawing [or both], then return to the studio to begin work. We will focus on realism, seen with its inherent abstractness through colour, form and shape.
Then the fun really kicks in! Paying close attention to tonal and colour mixing, and initially, through a limited palette of colours, the approach is immediate and responsive. We will work wet-into-wet [Alla Prima], working from dark to light and aiming to complete a painting in each sitting.
During subsequent sessions, we will introduce colour theory through a structured delivery. You will work up towards a larger scale painting, amalgamating what you have learned over the previous sessions.
This system is fun to learn and is suitable for painters with limited experience, as well as for more experienced practitioners.
NB: Please remember to bring materials from the course "materials list" online.
Materials list
Inside/Out: Re-Imagining the Everyday with Matt Carter
A basic kit of materials to get you up and going is listed here. Specialist art shops are the best option and will provide student discounts if you mention that you are attending the school. Recommended stores are:
• Studio Art Supplies – Crummer Road, Grey Lynn.
• The French Art Shop – Taylors Road, Morningside
• Gordon Harris – Gillies Avenue, Newmarket and Symonds Street, Auckland Central
• Takapuna Art Supplies – Takapuna
• Warehouse Stationery – has Winton oil paint
• Camera (or phone camera)
• Palette: wood or plastic (flat to enable mixing)
• Palette knife (with Elbow rather than flat)
• Preferred brushes, preferably synthetic, flat or filbert, various sizes including one 2cm wide
• 4-5 boards, canvases, canvas boards, MDF, hardboard or heavy card: primed/sized – ready
to go. Various sizes 200 – 400mms, any aspect. And a larger one about A2 size
• White gesso
• An old shirt or apron
Oil paints: Essential
• White (Titanium, Zinc or any other)
• Burnt Umber
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cadmium Yellow (or hue)
• Burnt Sienna
Oil paints: Optional
• Cobalt Blue (hue)
• Cadmium Red (hue)
• Prussian Blue or Pthalo Blue
• Raw Umber
At Browne School of Art, we also have a selection of basic materials available for purchase: Paper in A1 - A2 sheets, newsprint, cartridge, sugar grey, wet strength, bulldog clips, pencils charcoal, erasers, white chalk, black ink
This list is a general guide only. The majority (though not necessarily all) of these materials
may be used as students progress. Canvases, panels and boards can be prepared fairly easily and these need to be to your own preferred formats and sizes. If you are using oil paints please come prepared for this with odourless turpentine and plenty of rags for cleaning up.
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Standard Booking
Available until Thu 29 Jul '21 9:30am
Online payment includes payment fee of 2.9% + NZ$0.30. Offline payment details on confirmation page.
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NZ$395.00 | |
Standard Booking + $10.00 BSA Student Fund - Donation
Available until Thu 29 Jul '21 9:30am
A $10 donation will go to our BSA Student Fund - helping those who are unwaged or under financial hardship (with a Community Services Card) to attend our courses.
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NZ$405.00 |
Browne School of Art
194 Great North Road
Grey Lynn
Auckland
1021