Victoria Albuquerque sketching and painting workshops suggested materials.
Materials for Sketching
Paper (A3/A4) for sketching and a sketchbook.
I like to get you doing lots of quick sketches.
SOFT black charcoal sticks. You can get these dirt cheap from high street stationary shops so don't pay £1 per stick in the art shop!
(Willow charcoal is a bit grey and not so good for getting contrast)
Materials for Studio Work
If you have been on one of my previous skewtching workshops, bring your sketchbook withyou.
If not then bring ideas and images that you want to work with and use a starting p for your paintings
Acrylics.
Watercolours
are also fine but you may want to work with something with more body.
In my own paintings I use a combination of water basedf oils, acrylic and watercolour/ink.
Watercolour for the natural colous anmd acrylics to build interesting brush marks and textures.
You would be better off buying a limited palette of good quality paints. If you have a look at some of my work you will see that I use a quite restricted range of colours. If you have an easel you prefer to work on that ’s fine although not necessary.
Brushes.
A painting/palette knife.
PVA Glue
Med size, spiral bound sketch book.
A ruler or straight edge
Primed boards or canvas board/canvas
I would suggest that you are more likely to be precious about your expensive canvas and it may inhibit your painting, so don’t go mad in the art shop!
Hints on approaching painting
When starting your work, try to have a simple idea that you can keep in your mind while working.
You can also return to this one idea whenever you feel the painting or drawing is getting lost or losing focus.
If you have a personal attachment to the subject, a favourite place maybe or memory associated with it, it can help
you to keep a clear view of where you want to take your work.
Having a simple idea you can come back to will help you to be more free with your work as it is the idea that is important, rather than
the individual painting you are working with.
Working on a series of drawings or paintings on the same subject can also be helpful in making you more creative with your subject>
If you start one piece and then move quickly on to the next, you will find that the second and subsequent pieces gain a momentum and become more interesting and far less precious than if you labour over a single picture.
Once you can review four or five quick sketches there will be a very clear progression in them.
Through your sketches you will start to find out what it is that interests you in your chosen subject.
In this way, you remove the preciousness from your work, and begin to see each thing you are working on as park of a progression of rather than a single painting.
If you want to get in touch before we start please feel free to send me an e-mail mail@victoria-albuquerque.com
Materials for Sketching
Paper (A3/A4) for sketching and a sketchbook.
I like to get you doing lots of quick sketches.
SOFT black charcoal sticks. You can get these dirt cheap from high street stationary shops so don't pay £1 per stick in the art shop!
(Willow charcoal is a bit grey and not so good for getting contrast)
Materials for Studio Work
If you have been on one of my previous skewtching workshops, bring your sketchbook withyou.
If not then bring ideas and images that you want to work with and use a starting p for your paintings
Acrylics.
Watercolours
are also fine but you may want to work with something with more body.
In my own paintings I use a combination of water basedf oils, acrylic and watercolour/ink.
Watercolour for the natural colous anmd acrylics to build interesting brush marks and textures.
You would be better off buying a limited palette of good quality paints. If you have a look at some of my work you will see that I use a quite restricted range of colours. If you have an easel you prefer to work on that ’s fine although not necessary.
Brushes.
A painting/palette knife.
PVA Glue
Med size, spiral bound sketch book.
A ruler or straight edge
Primed boards or canvas board/canvas
I would suggest that you are more likely to be precious about your expensive canvas and it may inhibit your painting, so don’t go mad in the art shop!
Hints on approaching painting
When starting your work, try to have a simple idea that you can keep in your mind while working.
You can also return to this one idea whenever you feel the painting or drawing is getting lost or losing focus.
If you have a personal attachment to the subject, a favourite place maybe or memory associated with it, it can help
you to keep a clear view of where you want to take your work.
Having a simple idea you can come back to will help you to be more free with your work as it is the idea that is important, rather than
the individual painting you are working with.
Working on a series of drawings or paintings on the same subject can also be helpful in making you more creative with your subject>
If you start one piece and then move quickly on to the next, you will find that the second and subsequent pieces gain a momentum and become more interesting and far less precious than if you labour over a single picture.
Once you can review four or five quick sketches there will be a very clear progression in them.
Through your sketches you will start to find out what it is that interests you in your chosen subject.
In this way, you remove the preciousness from your work, and begin to see each thing you are working on as park of a progression of rather than a single painting.
If you want to get in touch before we start please feel free to send me an e-mail mail@victoria-albuquerque.com