Enjoy a day of experimentation with textures, where you will discover simple ways to give atmosphere and depth to your work.
We will explore with washes, methods of resist, and various tools to produce very free textural patterns during the course of which, lettering can be incorporated. In particular I will give demonstrations on how to produce the illusion of very aged backgrounds which look as if they have been excavated from antiquity. It is a day for making all kinds of mess and arriving at something different, surprising, and repeatable.

Materials to bring:
Heavy duty lining paper- as you buy in a roll for wallpaper
White candle
Masking out fluid
Quill or reed pen, this can easily be made by cutting a bamboo
Automatic pen – nib about 1cm diameter
2 HBpencils, 2 elastic bands
Sponge, small natural (optional)
Rags
Decorators brushes assorted sizes eg 2”, 4”, (6”)
A few Acrylic paints eg White, Paynes Grey, Raw Sienna
Sandpaper – medium, fine
Hair dryer could be useful to speed up drying time
Overall
Plastic containers of various sizes – yoghourt pots, larger shallow plastic trays or boxes eg about 4” x 4”, 5” x 7”.


Eleanor Allitt