Oil Paint - If you already have a set/range of colours I’m sure you’ll be fine as long as you have white and the primaries (red, yellow and ultramarine blue) as well as burnt umber (brown) 

Here are my recommended colours however: Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Green, Burnt Umber 

As we are learning/practising, student paints are a great option as they are cheaper than artist quality paints. Georgian (Daler Rowney) or Winton (Winsor & Newton) are good brands to go for although there are many others. 

Brushes - A range of shapes (round, filbert, flat) and sizes (1-12), either hog or synthetic as long as they are labeled as suitable for oil painting. 

Minimum requirements: 

Round (size 1)

Filbert (size 3)

Filbert (size 6) 

A3 Oil Painting Pad (Paper or Canvas) - Daler Rowney, Cass Art, Pebeo or any other brand 

A4 Tear Off Oil Painting Palette - Winsor & Newton do a really good one with 50 sheets, but there are other brands. After using a sheet, simply tear off the pad and throw it away. No need to clean up! 

Palette Knife - RGM Number 50 is a good size, but you could use something similar. Great for mixing colours on the palette, and can also be used for applying and scraping paint 

Linseed Oil (75ml minimum) - Improves flow of paint, slows drying, adds gloss to the paint 

Low Odour Mineral Spirits (75ml minimum) - Thins paint, cleans brushes 

Dipper - Can be purchased in an art shop but a small jar will do. It’s just for containing mineral spirits or linseed oil so you can dip the brush in while painting 

Masking Tape - For attaching your paper to the drawing board

Paper Towels - For removing paint from artwork and cleaning brushes 

*If you have any questions at all about the course or the materials needed, feel free to email me at mail@jeremyburnsart.co

Charcoal - Willow charcoal (any brand is fine, but Winsor & Netwon is probably the most popular). Either medium sized sticks or assorted if you’d like a range of sizes

Putty Rubber - I recommend the Daler Rowney brand for this (other brands can be fine but avoid Winsor & Newton as it’s too soft)

White Chalk - Simple black board white chalk will be fine

White Pastel Pencil or Chalk Pencil - This will allow for more detailed work

Black Pastel Pencil or Charcoal Pencil - This will allow for more detailed work 

Soft Pastels (Only if you want to use colour) - If you already have a set of soft pastels, I’m sure they will be fine. If not, a good cheap option is the “Inscribe” set of 64 soft pastels for £9.95 

Blending Stumps - These are made from pulped paper, and are great for blending. They can be purchased from any art shop 

Paper - Go for A3 pastel paper. The pads generally come with a variety of different colours and have a slight texture to them. Any colours are fine, and they are great for both charcoal and soft pastels 

Extras - Masking tape to hold your paper to the drawing board, baby wipes (not essential, but are useful for cleaning your hands if things start getting messy) 

*If you have any questions at all about the course or the materials needed, feel free to email me at mail@jeremyburnsart.com

Work from a still life, combining watercolour and pastels, or make a collage of a landscape adding layers and expressive brush marks with paint. Alternatively, you can work in an abstract way, using collage to make decisions about structure and develop your work with a feeling for colour, space, and texture. You are welcome to bring your own ideas or sketches to work with and to develop them in your own way. I will talk about colour theory and demonstrate how to use the various materials. There is plenty of cartridge paper and sugar paper in the art room, plus charcoal, pencils, coloured pencils, pastels, watercolours, acrylics, brushes, glue for collage etc. All these are available free of charge. You are welcome to bring your own materials.

We will take a lunch break between 12.30 and 1.30 pm

In this workshop we will begin with some quick warm-up poses in the morning and then establish a long pose with coloured drapes to last for the rest of the morning and the afternoon session. This will give you the opportunity to make a paintng if you wish, or you can work in pastel. We will look at some work by Fauve and Expressionist painters for inspiraton. You can aim for strongly modelled forms and distnct colour contrasts to produce a vibrant compositon. Alternatvely, you could decide to follow your own personal approach.

We will take a lunch break between 12.30 and 1.30 pm

Course Description:

The mixed media classes provide a stimulating learning environment for beginners to acquire the core skills they will need to draw and to paint, and for more experienced students to develop their own approach and work on individual projects.  

Each week I provide a set-up, images, or a process to work with, and information about an aspect of art to focus upon. I show examples of work to inspire you, by modern and contemporary artists, and I demonstrate how to use the materials. I teach ways to understand and observe the natural world, to compose a picture and to use colour, alongside the basic techniques for each medium and interesting ways to combine them. 

The subjects will include still life, portraits, the human figure, interiors, and landscapes. You can also make abstract work if you wish. We will have a professional model to work from for two of the sessions (there is a small extra charge for this).

We will work with pencil, charcoal, ink, pastels, water colours and acrylics. You can also use gouache or oil paints, and we will occasionally work with collage.  

The art room has a range of materials which are free to use in case you do not have your own.

Starters List of Materials: 

Basics 

A small sketchbook, A5 or A4 size

Pencils - An HB or B and a 4B pencil

Pencil Sharpener

Erasers one hard, one putty rubber (optional)

Paper - Acid free cartridge, A3 pad or loose sheets. You can buy sheets in class if you prefer. 

Pastels 

Start with an affordable set such as Inscribe

Pastel paper - An A3 pad or 6 sheets. Ingres paper by Daler-Rowney is good to work with. You can buy sheets in class if you prefer.

Stomps for blending if you wish - you can easily make your own. 

Watercolours 

Watercolours come in pans or tubes. Tubes are recommended for the classroom because they are easier to dilute and mix. You can mix them more easily on a ceramic plate or palette, but a plastic palette will do. There are palettes in the art room. Here is a really basic list of Winsor&Newton 5 ml tube colours to start with.

Permanent Rose 

Winsor Lemon 

Indanthrene Blue 

Pans are more convenient to carry and use out of doors. Cotman by Winsor&Newton is reasonably priced. 

Watercolour brushes, one small one medium. Synthetic brushes are alright to start with. Kitchen towel

Watercolour paper - A3 pad or 6 sheets. You can buy sheets in class if you prefer. 

Course Description:

A popular class with a different professional model each week. Model fees are included in the class fee.  There will be a maximum of 8 students and plenty of individual support. Mark may make suggestions of artists you might like to research before the class, and you may wish to emulate specific drawing techniques. You will be encouraged to use different materials including pencils, charcoal and chalk, soft pastels, inks, etc.

The session will start with a warm up pose, followed by a series of quick 2 or 5 minute poses. You will then usually have several longer poses to finish. There will be a refreshment break about half way through.

You will be encouraged to use an easel, the Art Room also has drawing boards, tables, chairs and stools if you prefer. There is a library of Art books for reference.

The aim of the workshop will be to make a portrait painting, either of the head alone, or a half-length portrait with hands. We will start with some quick sketches to help you work out a composition, and then commence the portrait paitning. (You can make a sustained drawing or pastel instead of a painting if you prefer.) 

Suitable for beginners to advanced level. 

Topics covered:

• Structure of the head

• Colour and form

• Composition

• Painting technique

Dates: See class schedules

Timings:

Starts       10:00 am

Lunch break  12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Ends         4 pm.

The model will adopt a long pose from 10:15 am to 12:15 pm and 1:45 pm to 4 pm.

NOTE THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR EACH DATE. 

Medium: Oils or Acrylics or Pastels. 

Please bring your own materials. 

Paints, brushes, solvent, canvas.

A palette or disposable palette paper and palette knife

(Drawing materials and some primed greyboard and acrylic paints are available in the art room) 

 The following will be used - pen, ink, paper.  

Calligraphy Pens will be available for students to use. Pens may be purchased if students wish to keep them. Tools and materials will be provided at no extra cost. 

To book a place email thebarbicanartsociety@gmail.com

The variety of small books that we will make in this four-week class are perfect for beginners. I might add these are my favourite books as well. Made by folding, glueing, or sewing, all are simple hand-made bindings requiring no specialised equipment. Yet they each demonstrate different qualities of paper, and the variety of ingenious structures that can bring pages together in a satisfying way. 

After 30 years of bookbinding, these uncomplicated books still give me the greatest pleasure to make and to use. 

Tools and materials will be provided. A small workshop charge will be added to the the standard class cost to cover additional materials.

To book a place email thebarbicanartsociety@gmail.com

About Gouache painting

What is Gouache? 

Gouache is opaque watercolour – similar to the poster paint some of us may have used in school art classes. It is much easier to use than water colour as you can change your painting as you go along, making the process more relaxed and creative. The colours can be vibrant and dense but also, with clever mixing, subtle and  harmonious. It is a very flexible and user friendly medium.

Who am I?

I am a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society and have led some of their workshops and day courses. As well as teaching residential courses at West Dean  I have taught a weekly class at the Mary Fielding Guild. But most of the time I am an exhibiting painter and have just had two paintings in the 2023 RA Summer Exhibition. 

What materials are needed?

All you need are a few tubes of Windsor and Newton Designer Colours  - primary red, yellow, blue and white and some sturdy paper.  I will bring some tubes of paint to the first session for everyone to try, so that you will know what is needed, as well as some suitable paper to experiment with. (Bring brushes and any other watercolour equipment you already use.)