Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm
Artist/Instructor: Martha Bull
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Price: $95.00

Suitable for beginner or intermediate painters!

Come paint in our studio with the wonderful watercolourist, Martha Bull. Experiment with colour, texture, and capturing light with this versatile and fun medium.

Yupo paper (impermeable, non porous and smooth) lifts the magic of watercolour to a whole new dimension. Yupo gives an artist the ability to rework an image unlike traditional watercolour. But Yupo’s best feature is the variety of textures attainable, a big step above what can be accomplished on traditional papers. These three workshops are designed to be taken together but any one workshop can also benefit beginners or seasoned watercolourists alike. Working on Yupo has opened up my painting practice and I want to share the discoveries I have enjoyed. I have become more adventurous and freer to make mistakes and learn from them. I believe my work to be more interesting, more spontaneous, with passages dominated by colour infusions and textures I have never accomplished before. 

Yupo paper will not hold a wash easily and details are often difficult to render. We will explore a technique to create lines and textures by incising soft lino into stamps. I reuse my personal stamps often depending on what series I am developing: underwater waterlillies, Queen Anne’s lace, field flower and birds. In this one day workshop we will carve out your personal imagery that will be developed into a painting on Yupo.

Materials List:

Large Yupo pad
Winsor Newton Alizarin crimson or Permanent Rose
Winsor Newton Aurelion Yellow
Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
Winsor Newton Thalo Blue Green
Daniel Smith Lunar Black 
Grumbacher Iridescent Medium
Grumbacher Granulation Medium
HB pencil, eraser, sharpener
Miskit Painters tape
Sketch pad
Watercolour pencils and/or watercolour pastels
Mop brush small
Mop brush large
Leaves of choice
Lace or other textured fabric if you have (sharing is good!)
Saran wrap
Squeegy
UV Spray
Fixative
Old credit card 

Soft Lino
Block approx 10” X 10”
Lino Cutting tools
Scissors
Exacto knife
Tracing paper
HB pencil
6B pencil

If you aren’t able to pay online, or if you’d like to register over the phone or in person, please don’t hesitate to call us at 519-942-9560 or visit us in store at 158 Broadway, Orangeville! (All prices are in CAD +hst)