Painting interiors can be a highly enjoyable challenge. A cosy comfy chair with a book open on it and some lamp light can tell an intimate story.

On this 1 day workshop with artist Emma Perring you will learn how to choose a composition from the surroundings, how to simplify the scene, to organise values from light to dark and think about colour combinations.

You should leave with some small sketches and your oil painting of an interior. We will be working from life, with the option of alternatively working from a provided reference picture.

Some prior oil painting experience recommended, beginners that have used oil paint at least a few times before and intermediates plus.

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Tickets £90 (10 Places) go on sale to the general public on 15th March, and 1 week earlier to festival benefactors who benefit from priority booking.

This workshop will take place at the Lifford Hall in the centre of Broadway.

Materials List:

• Easel – poached box, field easel or table easel.
• Rags or kitchen roll. A bin bag for disposal.
• Palette for mixing paint. This may be incorporating in your pochade box
• Oil Paints: This is the list what I use and recommend, however please don’t feel you have to buy all of these. bring what you have and we can work with it.
• Warm white or titanium white, Cadmium Yellow and/or Cadmium yellow light, Yellow ochre , Cad red or Rose Dore, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin crimson or Magenta, a turquoise or vivid blue, French ultra marine, Ivory Black , Raw Umber (Optional add ons – Cad orange, or any orange, Quinacridone Rose, a green such as viridian, cinnabar green, any other green you like).
• Panels or canvas: Please bring 2/3 panels from  20 x 25 cm – 40 x 30 cm. or any size in-between.
• A sketch book with pencils for thumb nail studies and notes
• Brushes: I use a selection of filberts and rounds with a soft rigger for fine lines.
• Solvent – ie: Zest it (ideally non-scented), puresol, gamsol. (No turps or white spirt as it’s to strong for indoors.)
• Medium – Linseed oil and liquin original mixed 50/50 in a small pot if you are comfortable with medium. Otherwise your solvent will do, you can manage fine with that alone.
• Extras: Palette knife – for scraping down pallet – very handy, Dibbers – (dipping pots) for your medium, Solvent kettle – for cleaning brushes with, a jar to pop paint brushes in & a view finder

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