Painting
with Gavin Rendall
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Gavin
Gavin is a Scottish watercolourist painter who has lived in England for many years. He has run many courses for young and old students including courses for Master Sun, Spring Harvest in the Vendee and in his local church weekly over a period of twelve years. He has been the tutor on board the QE2 on several voyages. His subjects include landscapes, skyscapes, nautical scenes, mountains and flowers. His ambition is for you to take home several masterpieces ready to hang on your walls or to give to your friends as presents.
The Course
Gavin will be instructing for five days, with tuition every morning from 10-1pm then a break for lunch. An afternoon session will be optional, though no new instruction will be offered during the afternoon.
During the five days, two will be full day trips out to a beautiful part of the local area. A small cost may be necessary for the transport for these two days.
The cost of joining our painting classes is £40 in addition to the week’s accommodation costs. You should also allow approximately £25 to cover transport and lunches on the days when the group will operate away from the hotel and its immeciate area.
NB. No materials are supplied – you will need to bring your own equipment and supplies.
If you would like advice on what to bring and where to obtain supplies we will provide a datasheet on request before departure.
Materials
Paints: a Cotman pocket box of paints contains the 12 colours which most artists use. i.e. Lemon yellow, Cadmium yellow, Alizarin crimson, Cadmium red, Ultramarine blue, Cobalt blue, Sap green, Viridian green, Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna, Burnt umber, Chinese white (which Gavin never uses)
Cotman paints are Student quality and are perfectly adequate for beginners and improvers. Artist’s quality are much more expensive.
Cotman boxes are available at WH Smiths and at Bromley’s Art Supplies by mail order.
Bromleys are at www.artsupplies.co.uk or at Curzon House, Curzon road,
Brushes: Gavin recommend three brushes, No 10, No 7 or 8 and a No 3. Gavin frequently uses a ¾ inch or larger flat brush but beginners could get by without a flat. There are many brushes on the market. Synthetic/prolene brushes are fine. Sable are very expensive and unnecessary. Bromleys do three Pro Arte brushes for £9.40. viz. No 10, No 6 and a ½” flat.
Please avoid cheap ‘children’s’ paints and brushes of squirrel hair or ox hair with no points.
Recommend paper is 140 lb (NOT weight paper). Most watercolour pads are of this weight. Gavin Rendall uses Bockingford mostly. Saunders, Arches, Whatman and Daler Rowney Langton are alternatives. Beginners need to know that cartridge paper, while ok for drawing in pencil or pen, is unsuitable for watercolour painting. Gavin will offer Bockingford single sheets for sale during the week at Bromley prices for folk who run out of paper.
An easel is unnecessary and too bulky for travel. We recommend you take a light weight board, hard board or a proprietary board from a shop. Size approx 16” by 12”. Gavin usually tapes his paper to the board with masking tape. This automatically provides a white border to a finished painting.
The extras required are: A putty rubber, masking tape, a roll of kitchen paper, a plastic water container (Gavin uses a margarine tub), a 2b pencil is adequate, a small sketch book (a 10” by 7” of cartridge paper is very suitable)
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