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About the Workshop & Tutor
Antony is the current Vice President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and a member of the New English Art Club, and the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. You can find out more about Antony here.
The three day egg tempera course will focus on Antony’s approach to painting a portrait in egg tempera, and will be an introduction to the egg tempera technique.
We will start with the preparation of the egg tempera, and how it's combined with the pigments . Then Antony will demonstrate through a step by step process how an egg tempera painting is created, including the techniques he uses to paint a portrait in egg tempera.
Day one will start with a portrait drawing made from the model in either pencil or charcoal . This drawing is then transferred to a panel , on which the egg tempera underpainting will be developed . After this we will continue to work from the models to develop an egg tempera portrait over the three days, with an emphasis on the techniques used for painting the nuances of skin in egg tempera.
Many of us will not complete our portraits as this is not the aim of the course, and this technique takes a lot of time. It is more important to to develop an area of a painting perhaps and learn as much of the techniques being taught in order to take away and develop and incorporate some into our own practice.
Antony will be returning in 2027 with a longer and more in depth course to include portraiture, still life set ups, and considered compositions and to further develop egg tempura practice and technique.
Materials List:
Pigments: https://www.cornelissen.com/pigments-gums-and-resins.html
Ivory Black 50grams
Yellow Ochre 50grams
Ultramarine Blue Dark 50grams
Titanium White 50grams
Cadmium Red Dark 50grams
Terre verte 50grams
Cadmium Vermillion 50grams
Venetian Red 50grams
Brushes: Synthetic Watercolour
Size 1
Size 2
Size 5
Size 1/0
Size 2/0
Size 3/0
Size 4/0
Ground:
Gesso Panels 15cm x 20cm : https://shop.apfitzpatrick.co.uk/15cm-x-20cm-gesso-icone--legno-prepared-panel-8356-p.asp
Ampersand Clapboard 27.9cm x 35.5cm or 22.9cm x 30.4cm : https://www.russellandchapple.co.uk/index.php/canvas-stretching/artists-panels/ampersand-clayboard-1.html
Additional materials:
Palettes: https://www.cornelissen.com/plastic-10-well-round-palettes.html
Palette knife
A3 cartridge Paper
Willow Charcoal, Graphite Pencils, Erasers
Masking Tape
What is provided?
Easels, side tables to put your kit on and glass palettes and glass jars are provided. A selection of teas and coffee, organic milk and plant based milk, plus a selection of treats will also be available.
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