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Hi there,
We have recently teamed up with a local professional artist / teacher to set up Residential Art Tuition weekends aboard a narrowboat...
The weekends will be Full Board - Friday evening until Sunday evening / Monday morning (your choice) and will be running on the River Severn around Upton upon Severn and Tewkesbury.
The courses are aimed at all abilities and will give you a great taster of the relaxing environment provided by a narrowboat! It will provide an opportunity to do something a bit different from the usual retreat weekends, and something I am sure you will be telling your friends about for years to come!
The first course is in April and there are only 6 places per weekend so get in quick!
If you are interested, please post on this thread or contact me at [email protected] and I can email you the full brochure.
Kind Regards
David
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Hi Robbie C. Well I suggest you forget about the French polishers mop and small
brushes. if you are going to paint pictures up to A 3 size get a number four squirrel to
use as a mop and otherwise.Also I would get no8 and a no.4 rounds and a no.2or3 rigger. stick to a limited palette say ult. blue. Alizaron crimson, raw sienna, burnt sienna.Indian yellow, sap green and cerulean blue and maybe burnt umber.I have never painted with a stick or a feather or any other substitute for a good brush. but then
I have never tried to pedal backwards on a push bike! good luck , Syd
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Thanks Syd, wouldnt a No 4 Mop be a bit small if you were painting upto A3?
For my palette i was thinking, Primary Red, Blue and Yellow from Maimeri Blu plus BU, BS, RS and Ultramarine.
I believe the matchstick is only used with the ink for drawing purposes and then washed over with a brush.
Anyone any views on the use of a squirrel mop brush? Sizes, makes, for's or against's.
Robbie.
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For me Wesson was one of the greats if not the great - I rate him even above the (usually) more exalted pioneering exponents of the art.
I have several books of his work and if I was limited to only artist it would be his that I would chose marginally ahead of others like Seago, Treasure, Weston, Merriot and the often sadly derided Russell Flint.
in the second tier I would include Yardley, Chamberlain, Webb and I could go on and on......
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Use the brushes you feel comfortable with - and you can only find out by trying some of them; I've used sables, hakes, squirrels, and synthetics - they all do different things - I'm rather fond of my 4 hakes but they won't do everything of course. I think the squirrel mops that Wesson used held a great deal of pigment and water - he used french polishers' mops because that was all that was available if you wanted a brush of that kind: nowadays, they're made by most of the brush-makers, specifically for artists - mine was sent to me as a gift by Alan Owen, a great exponent of Wesson's approach; watch his demos on YouTube and read his article in February's Leisure Painter and you'll learn a lot about the Wesson method.
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Thank you all for your replies. One thing ive def taken from this thread is be my own man. Appreciate good art but do my own thing with my own tools.
I am very much looking forward to trying all these new things out, and seeing how i go.
Thank you for the other names of artisits, i shall enjoy looking them up and discovering new and exciting styles.
Robbie.
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I'm glad you've got that out of thread, because I think we'd all say the same - we might plug our favourite brushes and paints and papers and so on, and defend our own methods: but we all realize that in the end, it's down to you - go your own way and try as many options as you feel like trying.
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i have read Robert Newcombesarticle in the. Feb. LP mag.and iand I don't like his trees particularly the ones at the windmill and the left side of the church.the church foreground has along black strokes spoiling the nice green there.the wall has so many white marks that it looks like snow instead of highlights.The Wesson way I fear is not to MY taste but who am I to speak when lots of people adore his work........Syd. :-)
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It's what makes the world go round Syd. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. What one finds beautiful someone finds horrible. The fact is art allows us to like and dislike what we want to and not what others tell us too.
If we all liked everything wouldn't it be a boring old world. Having just re-read the article i can see where your coming from. But i still really am captivated by his work.
I did however reappraise with a different eye after reading your post, and that's as a novice worth its weight in gold, because that's learning. :D
Robbie.
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