Art Demonstrations
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See Art Tutorials by Dupont Art Club’s two excellent instructors, Lucy Parker and Caroline Marsland. An excellent way to keep your painting skills up.
Painting with Pallet Knives
Painting with Pallet Knives. Painting with pallet knives can give an interesting textural effect to your painting.The knives come in different shapes and sizes. There are short square ones which...
Quink used as a Water Colour
Caroline chose a large sheet of water colour paper and liberally applied water to the surface, the subject was a beautiful forest scene with reflections in a lake.With a mid...
The Use of Brushes in Art
BRUSHES used in ART Caroline gave us an excellent education on various types of brushes used for art. She divided them into oil/acrylic/encaustic which use syththetic or hog brushes (encaustic)...
Lost Edges in Painting
Lost Edges in Paintings Using photographs from paintings by John Singer Sargent, Caroline showed the edges which melded into surrounding background colours. These lost edges create moods of mystery and ...
Mono Printing and Jelly Painting
Mono Printing and Jelly Painting Steph Howard gave us a demonstration on mono printing during our Thursday Dupont class. She used Essdee water soluble block printing ink but said that...
Using Watercolour Pencils
Caroline demonstrated how to use and get the most out of watercolour pencils. She picked quite a colourful portrait of an older lady. Looking carefully she decided which colour pencils...
How Watercolour Behaves Painting Flowers
Caroline started off this demonstration by instructing us to soak our watercolour paper for 5 to 10 minutes. She also stated that she used a size 12 watercolour brush and...
The Language of Shadows and How they Behave.
Caroline Marsland instructed us that perspective, shape, tonal values and contrast are what we need to look at in mastering how to draw or paint in the shadows.There are dark...
Drawing With Inks
Caroline was unavailable to demonstrate for us this week, but fortunately Amanda Davies came along to show us how to draw with ‘drawing’ ink as opposed to writing ink, the...
Drawing upside Down
Caroline said nothing is too difficult to draw! If you look at the picture upside down.By turning the picture you make your brain think in a different way. To start...
Line and Wash
Caroline picked a lovely picture of an Owl she wanted to create a loose and expressive picture. Using water colours and remembering not to keep painting over the same spot,...
Wet into Wet Watercolour
The demo today Caroline chose a winter photo of a small brook and trees in quite dull mono tones. She mixed a yellow quite watery and washed over the sky, she then...
Watercolour Negative Painting
Watercolour Negative Painting Caroline explained that we will be creating the positive by painting the negative. She started by painting areas of colours yellows, reds, oranges, and browns with a...
Critique of a Painting
How to critique a painting. Caroline explained that in looking at any picture one should follow the line, colour, tonal value, contrast and how the eye is guided through the...
Painting like Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Theibaud was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting common place objects, such as pies, cakes, lipsticks, paint, cans, and ice cream, cones, etc. He was born...
Drawing Complex Building Scenes
Drawing Complex Building Scenes Break the building scene into shapes of small, medium and large and start with the large shape. Finding the middle of the photo draw in the...
Portrait in Charcoal and white Pastel
Portrait Drawing in Charcoal and Pastel White This exercise by Caroline is on tonal values. She started with a light grey drawing of the face. The charcoal was then used...
Collage with Acrylic Paint
Caroline sketched out the head of a tiger, then using non shiny magazine pictures she picked out different coloured paper, some with interesting patterns, you could also use old postage...
Mark Making and Tonal Values
Tone, texture, colour and line! Caroline had quite a boring picture of brown cliffs going into a distance. With the use of acrylic paintsShe mapped out a rough line of...
Abstract Ben Nicholson style
Caroline had a still life picture of a fruit bowl, Nicholson would pick out and separate the main shapes. Caroline drew the out line in Sepia ink with a small...
Expressive Loose Watercolour Animals
Caroline sketched an outline of squirrel. She mixed the water colours ready for use ranging from raw sienna, ultra marine, red, yellow ochre, green pthalo, and mixed to form lights and darks...
Painting watercolor skys and Clouds
Caroline instructed us to have all of our colors mixed ahead of time. She used yellow ocher and ultramarine to make the grays. All primaries mixed together will also make...
Ripples and Reflections with Coloured Pencils
Caroline often starts in the middle of the picture and works out. The dark/light contrast attracted her so that was where she started drawing the buildings, measuring shapes in comparison...
Expressive Trees in. Watercolour
This workshop with Caroline started with the painting of white masking fluid over white areas and reflections.After letting it dry, she mixed pools of turquoise,purple, blue and orange. Painting the...
Dupont Portrait Workshop
Caroline lead a workshop with sixteen eager members on how to draw a portrait from a live model. She started the afternoon with the basics on portrait drawing and left...
Oil Pastels with Flowers
Caroline started off the demo showing us the two types of oil pastels that she was using. The first was Fabrer Castell which she used to draw in the shape...
Still life Drawing, shapes, colour , tone.
The still life painting started out with mapping out the shape. A line was drawn down the middle of the page after which the shape of the jug was drawen....
Painting Spring Flowers in Acrylic on a Black Surface
PAINTING SPRING FLOWERS IN ACRYLIC ON A BLACK SURFACE Lucy Parker demonstrated a dramatic version of a seasonal still life on good quality black paper. Many people were tempted to...
Nest and Eggs in Pastels
Birds nest and eggs Medium Chalk pastels on black paper. Work from dark to light, starting with a brown to outline the nest and position the eggs so they will...
Planning a Painting
Caroline used a photo of 3 puppies, but the ideas were to be used on location so you can capture the tones and light of the moment. First she planned...
Painting a Short Haired Black Dog
Caroline did a rough sketch in acrylic paint of the Labrador, then mixed colours rather than using black. She looked for colours which were picked up in the sheen from...
Pointalism in Watercolour
Pointillism describes a technique in which hundreds of small dots or dashes of pure colour are applied to the canvas in order to create maximum luminosity. Colour spots are blended...
Moody Landscapes with Acrylic
Caroline Marsland, Dupont instructor, started this painting using a fluid wash of acrylic with watercolour techniques, . Using these light washes gives luminosity to the sky which is painted with...
How to Draw Pastel in the Style of DEGAS
How to draw pastel portraits in the style of Degas Dupont Art Club instructor, Caroline Marsland used a reference photo of a young woman to demonstrate chalk pastel portrait using...
