Course Code: SSST22
Tutor: Leigh Martin
When: Fri - Mon 9.30am - 3.30pm
Dates: 14 - 17 January 2022
Duration: 4 days
Maximum Enrolment: 10
Cost: $450
This summer school course is aimed at giving both beginners and more advanced painters a structured grounding in how to work with tone.
When drawing or painting, it is vital to have an understanding of tonal relationships within a composition, whether working with representational or abstract subjects. Tonal explorations are essential in helping to define and represent a chosen subject and are applied when dealing with light, movement, contrast, form or wanting to imbue a drawing or painting with a sense of atmosphere or drama.
Understanding tonal qualities and technique is also of particular help at the underpainting stage, when establishing and composing a drawing and when transferring and transcribing the drawing onto and into a painted format.
Day 1-2: The Basics: exercises in tonal drawing.
Day 3-4: Building an image with tonal studies (underpainting techniques).
Materials list
Setting The Tone – with Leigh Martin
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. The stores we recommend 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
Materials required: (can be purchased from BSA as required)
• Pencils: B 2B 4B 6B
• Willow charcoal
• Drawing paper*
• Black drawing paper*
• A range of erasers soft-hard*
• Acrylic paints: mixing colours: warm red (cadmium hue), warm yellow (cadmium yellow hue)
warm blue (ultramarine hue), cool red (crimson), cool yellow (lemon yellow),
cool blue (phthalo, cobalt or cerulean), yellow ochre (oxide) raw umber, black, white.
• Gesso/primer 500ml
• A variety of paintbrushes: ensure x1 thick, flat brush and x1 smaller, tipped brush
• Low-tack masking tape: blue or lilac
• Paper and pen for notes
• Palette/painting knife
• Rags and kitchen towels for cleaning
• Acrylic painting medium Golden satin or gloss painting medium 473mls or 1ltr.
• Appropriate clothing: apron old shirt
• Sugar black paper x5 sheets*
• Small canvas panels / boards (don’t purchase until discussed after 1st session)
At Browne School of Art, we also have a selection of basic materials recommended 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 during the workshop as students progress. If you have other media that you would like to bring and incorporate into the workshop please feel free to do so.
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Standard Booking
Online payment includes payment fee of 2.9% + NZ$0.30. Offline payment details on confirmation page.
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NZ$450.00 | |
Standard Booking + $10.00 BSA Student Fund - Donation
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$460.00 |
Browne School of Art
194 Great North Road
Grey Lynn
Auckland
1021