Painting From Sketches (Online Workshop) Spring 2025 w/ Alex Cree
May 15 to May 29 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/NZJDvo38S9w
Workshop Description
What is the use of filling sketchbook after sketchbook and storing them in a box in the attic? Alex will show you how to turn the humblest of pencil sketches into a vibrant colourful design.
Workshop Outline
Week 1 -
Alex will choose one of his own drawings and demonstrate how to grid up, enlarge and transfer an image onto a new support. Watch the application of the first layer of paint, demystify the process of colour choice and even chip in and help out with the decision making. There will be a chance to go through the materials in case you need to get something for the next session.
Week 2 -
Students will have prepared a board, canvas or piece of paper with the image plotted out using a grid. How does one begin? How do we choose a colour palette or “key”? What details can be deemed unnecessary and be stripped away? How do we make an image interesting or enjoyable to look at?
Week 3 -
Students will continue last weeks painting and share their own journey with the rest of the class. Speedy students may do more than one version on their image or work from multiple drawings. How do we continue on a painting and keep it fresh? How do we know when it is finished?
Workshop Materials List
Students can work in oil paint, acrylic, gouache or any opaque medium. Watercolour is not advisable as it is very hard to change ones mind, edit and refine the image.
Brushes: at least one skinny (rigger), one small (no.2/3), one medium (half inch), one big (an inch or more). The more brushes, the better so you don’t have to do so much cleaning during the class.
Palette knife, rags
Mediums: (if using oils) turpentine or low odour equivalent, linseed oil, white spirit.
2 jars, one for mediums one for washing brushes
A few sketches/drawings. If you really don’t want to use your own drawings, you can pinch one off an old or modern master!
At least one support (canvas, board, paper) primed and ready for paint.
Colours:
Cold yellow (eg. lemon, cadmium yellow pale)
Warm yellow (eg. cadmium yellow, cadmium yellow deep)
Warm red (eg. cadmium red, bright red)
Cool red (eg. rose, magenta, crimson)
Warm blue (eg. french ultramarine)
Cool blue (eg. cobalt, cerulean, turquoise, manganese blue)
Titanium white
It is not essential to have secondary colours (orange, purple, green) or earth colours (ochre, black, sienna, umber) but do bring them along if you already have them, they may be useful.
May 15 to May 29 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/NZJDvo38S9w
Workshop Description
What is the use of filling sketchbook after sketchbook and storing them in a box in the attic? Alex will show you how to turn the humblest of pencil sketches into a vibrant colourful design.
Workshop Outline
Week 1 -
Alex will choose one of his own drawings and demonstrate how to grid up, enlarge and transfer an image onto a new support. Watch the application of the first layer of paint, demystify the process of colour choice and even chip in and help out with the decision making. There will be a chance to go through the materials in case you need to get something for the next session.
Week 2 -
Students will have prepared a board, canvas or piece of paper with the image plotted out using a grid. How does one begin? How do we choose a colour palette or “key”? What details can be deemed unnecessary and be stripped away? How do we make an image interesting or enjoyable to look at?
Week 3 -
Students will continue last weeks painting and share their own journey with the rest of the class. Speedy students may do more than one version on their image or work from multiple drawings. How do we continue on a painting and keep it fresh? How do we know when it is finished?
Workshop Materials List
Students can work in oil paint, acrylic, gouache or any opaque medium. Watercolour is not advisable as it is very hard to change ones mind, edit and refine the image.
Brushes: at least one skinny (rigger), one small (no.2/3), one medium (half inch), one big (an inch or more). The more brushes, the better so you don’t have to do so much cleaning during the class.
Palette knife, rags
Mediums: (if using oils) turpentine or low odour equivalent, linseed oil, white spirit.
2 jars, one for mediums one for washing brushes
A few sketches/drawings. If you really don’t want to use your own drawings, you can pinch one off an old or modern master!
At least one support (canvas, board, paper) primed and ready for paint.
Colours:
Cold yellow (eg. lemon, cadmium yellow pale)
Warm yellow (eg. cadmium yellow, cadmium yellow deep)
Warm red (eg. cadmium red, bright red)
Cool red (eg. rose, magenta, crimson)
Warm blue (eg. french ultramarine)
Cool blue (eg. cobalt, cerulean, turquoise, manganese blue)
Titanium white
It is not essential to have secondary colours (orange, purple, green) or earth colours (ochre, black, sienna, umber) but do bring them along if you already have them, they may be useful.
May 15 to May 29 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/NZJDvo38S9w
Workshop Description
What is the use of filling sketchbook after sketchbook and storing them in a box in the attic? Alex will show you how to turn the humblest of pencil sketches into a vibrant colourful design.
Workshop Outline
Week 1 -
Alex will choose one of his own drawings and demonstrate how to grid up, enlarge and transfer an image onto a new support. Watch the application of the first layer of paint, demystify the process of colour choice and even chip in and help out with the decision making. There will be a chance to go through the materials in case you need to get something for the next session.
Week 2 -
Students will have prepared a board, canvas or piece of paper with the image plotted out using a grid. How does one begin? How do we choose a colour palette or “key”? What details can be deemed unnecessary and be stripped away? How do we make an image interesting or enjoyable to look at?
Week 3 -
Students will continue last weeks painting and share their own journey with the rest of the class. Speedy students may do more than one version on their image or work from multiple drawings. How do we continue on a painting and keep it fresh? How do we know when it is finished?
Workshop Materials List
Students can work in oil paint, acrylic, gouache or any opaque medium. Watercolour is not advisable as it is very hard to change ones mind, edit and refine the image.
Brushes: at least one skinny (rigger), one small (no.2/3), one medium (half inch), one big (an inch or more). The more brushes, the better so you don’t have to do so much cleaning during the class.
Palette knife, rags
Mediums: (if using oils) turpentine or low odour equivalent, linseed oil, white spirit.
2 jars, one for mediums one for washing brushes
A few sketches/drawings. If you really don’t want to use your own drawings, you can pinch one off an old or modern master!
At least one support (canvas, board, paper) primed and ready for paint.
Colours:
Cold yellow (eg. lemon, cadmium yellow pale)
Warm yellow (eg. cadmium yellow, cadmium yellow deep)
Warm red (eg. cadmium red, bright red)
Cool red (eg. rose, magenta, crimson)
Warm blue (eg. french ultramarine)
Cool blue (eg. cobalt, cerulean, turquoise, manganese blue)
Titanium white
It is not essential to have secondary colours (orange, purple, green) or earth colours (ochre, black, sienna, umber) but do bring them along if you already have them, they may be useful.