A selection of previous classes - Maryhill Art School

A SELECTION OF PREVIOUS CLASSES

Day Class 10am - 4pm

October 24th – December 5th 2011

Painting the Figure with Cynthia Bowles

This course will introduce the process of oil painting. Starting with underpainting, we will explore two approaches: the practice of wiping-out from a wet ground and the more classical method of building up light from a dry mid-tone ground. Initially working from the plaster cast where tonal development is most easily studied, we will move on to colour and the human form working with a limited palette.

Material Requirements: Clearly this long wish list is offered as a guide to the best equipment. Without making to much of a commitment you can manage with two good bristle brushes, a plate, a flexible breakfast knife, and two jam jars. Don’t forget the cotton cloths!

Oil paint suggestion: Initially we will work with a limited palette of Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue. Should you elect to continue working with fewer colours, please include Raw Umber and Titanium White.

Oil Colours

Titanium white

Raw Umber

Burnt Umber

Raw Sienna

Yellow Ochre

English Red Light

Alizarin Crimson

Ivory black

Ultramarine Blue

Support and equipment

16’’x 20’’ Winsor & Newton prepared boards or Daler boards
Plastic palette backed with medium grey paper.

filbert bristle brush between ¼’’& ¾’’wide (buy a couple of good ones)
Palette knife medium size and flexible (trowel-shaped recommended)

Linseed oil : ideally cold pressed (or stand oil)

Odorless mineral spirits: Sansodor (pure turpentine is not acceptable).
2 large single metal palette cups (not double attached type). Jam jars fine but not plastic as solvent will dissolve container.
Strong paper towel and cotton cloths for wiping out.

Cost: £270 for 7 weeks

Tuesday Morning Class 10am – 12:30pm

October 25th – December 6^th 2011

Intuitive Figure Drawing with Martin McInally

This Class approaches life drawing from a more personal view. As much as measuring an accuracy are vital in observing the figure, they are not the main focus of this class. This is a good class for those wishing to develop their hand for their subject, the feel of their work, and to further their intuitive understanding. The class is suitable for beginners still finding their feet, and simultaneously, for the more experienced student seeking to bring more of themselves into the work.

Requirements:

Willow stick/Vine charcoal thick/thin
White Chalk

Pastel (optional
Putty and hard rubbers
Masking tape
Several sheets of both news print and middle tone paper
Fixative

Cost: £135 for 7 weeks

Tuesday Afternoon Class 1:30pm- 4pm

Drawing and Painting with Martin McInally

This class will promote the development of technique and understanding in the processes of drawing and painting in which students are free to choose to work exclusively with either Oil or Acrylic paints. A still life will be provided for the first of the seven classes though students will be encouraged to work from their own subject matter at every other time.

Material Requirements:
Willow stick/Vine charcoal thick/thin
White Chalk
Putty and hard rubbers
Masking tape
Several sheets of both news print and middle tone paper
Additionally: Assorted Oils, Acrylics or Pastels.

Cost: £135 for 7 weeks

WEEKEND CLASSES

Head structure for Portrait - Cynthia Bowles

Weekend October 29^th / 30^th

10am - 4 pm

Cost £140 (Including lunch served both days)

This course will familiarize the student with the skull, ‘setting up’ the structure of the head to assist in the confident placement of features. Working initially through a variety of short drawing exercises using charcoal and chalks, we will progress to a sustained drawing using form lighting. There will be several short lectures and all studio work will be introduced by demonstrations covering procedure and material usage. This class is suitable for beginners wishing to develop a framework for the portrait and will challenge more advanced students to deepen their understanding.

Requirements:
Willow stick/Vine Charcoal
Charcoal pencil (medium)
Kneedable rubber
Plastic rubber
Chamois cloth (Crockets iron monger, West Nile Street)
10 sheets of liner paper and a few sheets of cheap cartridge (A2)
2-3 sheets of Ingres paper by Fabriano (mid toned)

Notebook for lecture notes (optional)

Intuitive Figure Drawing - Martin McInally

Weekend November 5^th / 6^th

10am – 4pm

Cost £140 (Including lunch served both days)

This Class approaches life drawing from a more personal view. As much as measuring and accuracy are vital in observing the figure, they are not the main focus of this class. This is a good class for those wishing to develop their hand for their subject, the feel of their work, and to further their intuitive understanding. The class is suitable for beginners still finding their feet, and simultaneously, for the more experienced student seeking to bring more of themselves into the work.

Requirements:

Willow stick/Vine charcoal thick/thin
White Chalk

Pastel (optional
Putty and hard rubbers
Masking tape
Several sheets of both news print and middle tone paper
Fixative

Water Based Media - Cathy Campbell

Weekend November 12^th / 13th

10am – 4pm

Cost £135 (Including Lunch served both days)

This course offers the opportunity to work with transparent
and opaque water based media including inks,
gouache, acrylic and watercolour paint. There
will be an emphasis on exploring a range of
contemporary and traditional techniques.
The aim of this course is to develop each person’s
handling of the material whether they
work within a representational or nonrepresentational format.

Requirements:
Watercolour paint
Acrylic paint
coloured inks
Gouache paint
Palette.
Watercolour brushes, large medium small (min)
Kitchen roll
Soft drawing pencil.
Sketchbook
waterproof drawing pen or dip pen and indian ink.
Watercolour paper. This can be a pad ‘the Langton’ is good available
artstore etc.
4 large sheets heavy duty cartridge paper. or cartridge pad.
Gumstrip.

* this is a rough guide only. You can enjoy the weekend with
whatever combination of the coloured media you choose. There will be
demonstrations in all of the above.

Intensive Figure Drawing - Cynthia Bowles

Weekend November 26^th / 27^th

10am – 4pm

Cost £140 (Including lunch both days)

For keen beginners and experienced artists wanting to breakthrough and push their work to a new level, this course will make accessible a body of useful drawing strategies to boost the student’s performance. Though each strategy presents its own expressive possibilities, the intensive nature of the course and sheer volume of output will enable the student to work in a more intuitive responsive manner.

To this end, the weekend will consist of many quick drawings, each exercise concluding in a longer work based on the particular strategy studied. In this way skills will be practiced, assimilated and then employed as part of the individual’s own fabric.

Pastel Life Drawing - Martin McInally

Weekend December 3^rd / 4^th

10- 4pm

Cost: £140 (Including lunch both days)

For less experienced students, pastel can aid the way to exploring colour, or the considerations of drawing a study for a painting.

For more experienced students it is an opportunity to hone technical ability, as well as encouraging them to open up their range of enquiry through more individual tutoring.

Pastel is a good medium to prepare and research a composition, this class will explore the medium and putting it all together which is composition.

Required Materials:

A Box or selection of various coloured chalk pastels - the wider the variety, the better.

Chalk Pastels

Plenty of pastel paper

Fixative

Charcoal

Hard rubber

Putty rubber

NB- any students wanting to work in oil pastels are welcome to; though they are harder and more demanding to work with, thus only recommended for those who have already worked in this medium.

Untutored Long Pose Life Drawing – Nichol Wheatley

Weekend December 10^th / 11th

10am – 4pm

Cost £135 (Including lunch both days)

This is an opportunity for students to have long studies of the model. The class is untutored and is offered to students wishing to extend their independent practice. Although the pose will be set and timed by an assistant or tutor, students will be encouraged to suggest poses they would like to draw.

Requirements:
Your own choice of materials.

Evening Course Autumn 2011

Monday Evenings 6:30pm - 9pm
August 29th – October 10th 2011

Advanced Life Drawing: Focusing on the Intuitive

with Martin McInally

Cost: £135 for 7 weeks

This class is specifically for the more experienced life drawing students wanting to approach their work from a more personal view. This course will encourage students to open up their range of enquiry through more individual tutoring and will introduce drawing strategies focusing on and extending the expressive potential

This class will provide the opportunity to hone skills and encourage students to bring more of themselves into the work.

Requirements:
Willow stick/Vine charcoal thick/thin

Chamois or chamy leather (Crockets Iron Mongers, West Nile St.)
White Chalk
Putty and hard rubbers
Masking tape
Sheets rough paper (ie: liner paper from B&Q)

Good cartridge and mid tone paper
Fixative

Tuesday Evenings 6:30pm - 9pm
August 30th - October 11th

Drawing and Painting with Martin McInally

Cost: £135 for 7 weeks

Requirements:
Watercolour paint
Acrylic paint
coloured inks
Gouache paint
Palette.
Watercolour brushes, large medium small (min)
Kitchen roll
Soft drawing pencil.
Sketchbook
waterproof drawing pen or dip pen and indian ink.
Watercolour paper. This can be a pad ‘the Langton’ is good available
artstore etc.
4 large sheets heavy duty cartridge paper. or cartridge pad.
Gumstrip.

* this is a rough guide only. You can enjoy the course with
whatever combination of the coloured media you choose. There will be
demonstrations in all of the above.

Cost: £135 for 7 weeks