Get Loose with Skye | Llewellyn Skye

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Llewellyn Skye is a contemporary Australian artist whose emotionally charged and expressive floral abstractions draw inspiration from nature.

If you are looking to loosen up your painting style, embrace bold marks and to learn to trust your intuition and decision making, you will be in good hands with Skye!

What will I learn?

Skye will teach you how to switch on the creative side of your brain, embrace paint, and trust your intuition. Working from still life set-ups and imagery, you will be guided through traditional techniques with a fast, loose, abstract approach.

You will be exploring colour mixing alongside many sketches and paintings.

This will be a fun, energetic workshop with an emphasis on trusting your intuition, embracing loose gestural marks and not over-working your pieces.

Who is this workshop suitable for?

This workshop is suitable for people with some experience of their chosen medium. It will cater to early learners through to advanced.

You are welcome to work in acrylic. For those who would prefer to work in oil, please use a fast-drying medium and acrylics to paint the backgrounds.

What do I need to bring?

Drawing Materials:
Visual Diary
Pencil
Willow Charcoal 
Eraser
Paper - Pad of art paper
Pen/marker

Surfaces:
You can choose any surface to paint on, from cardboard to ply to unstretched canvas to stretched canvas. Not too small or too big, an average size would be 76 x 91cm (30”x36”) - You can pre-purchase canvases from Bienarté or from most good art supply stores.

Brushes:
A range of shapes and sizes from small to large, preferably filbert and mop brushes.  

Acrylic or Oil colours:
Titanium White
Black

Earth Colours:
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber

Warm + Cool Primaries:
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Cadmium Yellow
Lemon/Light Yellow

Optional Colours
Quinacridone Magenta
Dioxazine Purple
Phthalo Blue
Light Green
Glow Pink (by Permaplastik) https://musgraveart.com.au/product/permaplastik-glow-pink-2/ 
**Other colours if you prefer

Medium:
Oil painters - A fast-drying medium, for example ‘Liquin’ or ‘Odourless Lean by Archival’

Acrylic painters - Not necessary, but you may choose to play around with acrylic mediums if you prefer to.

Other materials:
Jars
Rags
Scissors
Large sized palette/s
Palette knife
Water Spray (for Acrylic painters)
Fixative spray
Odourless Solvent (for Oil painters)
Drop Sheet/ Bath towel
 *Smart Phone or tablet + charger

What is provided

• Tea and coffee (please bring your own cup)
• Easels
• A friendly, supportive and encouraging learning environment
• Connection to the Bienarté art community

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