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'Travelling Sketchbook' an En Plein Air Watercolour Workshop & Book Signing with Barry Herniman

SATURDAY 31ST JULY 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80 per day

All abilities welcome - Studio One and on the Stroudwater Canal

Kindly sponsored by Schmincke Finest Artists' colours

We are thrilled to welcome Barry Herniman, a very accomplished painter and teacher, to lead this plein air watercolour workshop. A popular demonstrator at Patchings Art Festival, he is also an ambassador for Schmincke watercolour products, which we sell here at Pegasus Art.

Barry will share all his top tips and techniques for creating really dynamic paintings full of light and shadow. The day will start with a brief introduction in Studio One with some quick 'warm up ' exercises before heading out to the nearby Stroudwater Canal (5 – 7 minute easy walk). Barry is very experienced and has taught painting holidays abroad and spends a great deal of time painting outdoors. He will help you find a suitable spot, guide you in composition, colour mixing and how to tackle ‘all that green’. His beautiful book, ‘The Travelling Sketchbook’ is full of delightful paintings of canal scenes and more exotic locations, available to buy for £20 (retails at £35) on the day. If you’re a novice, amateur or more professional artist, wanting to work closely with an expert in this medium, this will be a fabulous day. The aim of the day is to ‘have a go’!

About Barry: 'I am a full time artist and have been painting landscapes and seascapes for many years both in the studio and en plein air with my trusty sketchbooks. My favourite medium is watercolour, its immediacy and transparency is hard to beat and I never tire of watching the colours mix and mingle on the paper. Landscapes are my first love but I am at home painting anything from portraits to steam locos. I travel extensively both home and abroad doing demonstrations and workshops to Art Clubs and Societies. I am also an author of Travelling Sketchbook and Successful and Creative Washes.'

www.barryherniman.com

All students will need to bring in the following:

The shop is open from 9am, so please do come before the workshop to purchase what you need. All workshop attendees receive an extra 5% off art materials from our extensive shop next to Studio One.

• Some small pieces of watercolour paper for the initial exercises.
• A piece of watercolour paper, preferably not less than 140lb and either NOT or Rough depending on your personal preference and not less than 1/4 sheet (15 x 11"). Please tape your sheet to a board. I use Saunders Waterford and Hahnemuhle 'Andalucia', for example - Saunders Waterford Sheet Paper 190gsm NOT 56 x 76cm.
• If you would like to invest in a block of watercolour paper, I recommend Hahnemuhle ‘Andalucia’.
• Bring a watercolour sketchbook for the day. I recommend Hahnemuhle A5 landscape or Seawhite Jumbo Square Hardback Art Sketchbook.
• 2B Pencil
• A palette with deep wells to carry sufficient colour mixes. There is a selection at Pegasus including Buddy Cup Palette.
• Schmincke Horadam watercolours. There will be samples for you to try on the day. Recommended colours: Pure yellow, Aureolin, Indian Yellow, Rose Madder, Madder Red Dark, Madder Brown, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine finest, Helio Turquoise and Manganese Violet. Available as 5ml tubes in 140 colours.
• Barry recommends that pigments are transparent or semi-transparent. If you're not sure bring all your colours along and he will go through them with you.
• Brushes – Barry uses Da Vinci Cosmotops Round – they are a synthetic/sable mix and hold bags of water and come to a great point. Recommended sizes - 12,8, 6 and 4 and a few riggers no's 4 and 2. These are just a guide.
• Whilst in the studio, we will work on tables. When outdoors, you are welcome to bring a lightweight camping chair or painting stool. Please also bring wet weather gear and comfortable shoes / boots. We can supply boards to paint on.
• Spray diffuser bottle to keep the paints moist.
• If you would like to bring or buy some Derwent Inktense watersoluble ink pencils, they are highly recommended for sketching.
• A packed lunch – there is no café at Griffin Mill

'Linocut & Collage Landscapes' with John Scott Martin NDD PPRBSA PRSMA FRSA

FRIDAY 6TH & SATURDAY 7TH AUGUST 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm both days

£140

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome

Learn how to create effective linocuts with eminent printmaker and new tutor, John Scott Martin.

We are delighted that John will be teaching our students how to produce effective linocuts using traditional methods and also incorporating collage. You will be learning from a hugely experienced painter-printmaker, past President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Don’t let this list intimidate you – his main aim is to imbue his love of printing and to share the many skills and techniques that he has learnt over the years. Beginners are most welcome.

What you will learn on this workshop:

• How to select materials
• Learn about the basic techniques required for this medium
• Select an image, consider composition and learn how to trace the image and transfer in reverse onto lino
• Cutting and proofing the block
• How to use the proof to create a number of collages
• Printing your block
• Benefit from a final appraisal, questions and feedback

Above: The Artist magazine, Issue Sep 2019 - Article 'Make a Linocut'. Click on the images to see a larger version of the article page. With kind thanks to www.painters-online.co.uk

About John Scott Martin: John is a practising painter and printmaker. He ended a long career in graphics, printing, photography and design management to return to his first love. He is well known for his images of Cornwall, the mining landscape and nautical scenes. He has worked with the National Trust and taken every opportunity to head below ground to document the mining imagery of West Cornwall. He is inspired by classic yachts, sailing barges and ships – he works in oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastels and inks. He exhibits and sells mixed media linocuts and paintings with no less than ten galleries. He occasionally writes for The Artist magazine and is the newly appointed President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.www.johnscottmartin.co.uk

Please bring the following with you:

• Scissors
• Scalpel or craft knife
• Small ruler
• Apron
• Bring any images that you would like to develop. John will also provide some images you can work from.
• Pencils and / or sketching pens
• A small supply of A4 cartridge paper sheets
• Lunch! There is no café at Griffin Mill, so please bring a packed lunch with you.

John will provide the following, so please do not bring:

• Tracing paper
• Graphite/trace
• Ink rollers
• Lino blocks
• Lino cutting tools
• Small book press
• Printing inks
• White spirit
• Pva glue
• Papers for collages

All students receive an extra 5% off in our extensive mill shop which opens at 9am.

'Boost Your Drawing Skills' with Max Hale

SATURDAY 14TH AUGUST 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome

At the renewal of our freedom to get back to our art, often the basics are overlooked as we go directly to paint. This full-day workshop is to help all artists of any capability revisit their skills in drawing.

Drawing well enhances your visionary conception along with the ability to construct and develop pieces of future work. Therefore it is vital in making the artist, confident, motivated and able to know which way to handle your subject.

This workshop will take you through not only drawing basics and question your contribution to your overall work but tackle more difficult subjects head-on. We will be working from a still life to loosen up with other subjects introduced as we go along.

Please bring 2B, 4B and 6B pencils, an eraser plus about six sheets of A2 Cartridge paper. Everything you need for this workshop is available to buy in our warehouse shop with an extra 5% discount.

Don’t forget to bring coffee, tea, water and a packed lunch. There is no café at Griffin Mill.

About Max: Max has been teaching at Pegasus Art for five years and has built up a popular following of students. He attended Harrow School of Art where he studied Fine Art and was tutored by Ken Howard OBE RA. He became an apprentice illustrator in a London studio but found his way back to fine art, his true passion. He has been teaching for over twenty five years, whilst exhibiting and painting throughout. He writes for The Artist magazine, among others, and is an Ambassador for Royal Talens. He has had paintings exhibited in most areas of the country and many in London his passion to tutor and motivate others is obvious and works in all mediums.

'Pen & Wash - Towns & Villages' with Max Hale - NOW FULL

SATURDAY 28TH AUGUST 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome - Attic Studio

This one-day workshop explores ink pen and watercolour washes that make really interesting and beautiful pieces of art. This quick technique is becoming increasingly popular for capturing busy street scenes. I will show you how, picking out key features without feeling overwhelmed. There is a knack to it!

During this day session you will learn the structure and methods of using ink and watercolour in harmony, how to balance the two complementary mediums to obtain the best results. Ink and wash is not new but you will benefit from Max's early experiences as an artist/illustrator to explore the vast possibilities that using the marriage these two different mediums affords.

The day will use a variety of images to build your skills and to give you a really good grounding in the methods of using pure line with beautiful colour washes. Students will work from either their own images, or those provided by the tutor.

Suitable for all levels of artist whether new to this style or practiced.

About Max: Max has been teaching at Pegasus Art for five years and has built up a popular following of students. He attended Harrow School of Art where he studied Fine Art and was tutored by Ken Howard OBE RA. He became an apprentice illustrator in a London studio but found his way back to fine art, his true passion. He has been teaching for over twenty five years, whilst exhibiting and painting throughout. He writes for The Artist magazine, among others, and is an Ambassador for Royal Talens. He has had paintings exhibited in most areas of the country and many in London. His passion to tutor and motivate others is obvious and works in all mediums.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch as there is no cafe at Pegasus.

Recommended Equipment List

• At least two or three landscape references to use for painting, photographs or sketches. Please do not bring paintings to copy whether your own or from a third party.
• At least one 0.3 or 0.5 metal/fibre or plastic tipped ink pen using permanent black ink ie. not water soluble. Such as Staedtler Lumocolor Permanent Pen Set.
• A set of watercolour paints in either tubes or pans. Minimum colours recommended are cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, sap green, cerulean blue, ultramarine, raw umber. Such as Van Gogh Watercolour Pocket Box.
• At least two watercolour brushes, one pointed round at least a size 4 or 6 and one flat size 3/4 inch. Such as Da Vinci Series 1526Y Kolinsky Red Sable Round Watercolour Brush.
• At least five sheets of A4 HP Hot Press smooth paper (NOT may do too, but rough is too textured). Such as Bockingford Paper Fat Pad A4 Hot Pressed 300gsm.
• A water pot and some tissue or kitchen roll.
• A sketch book any size and soft pencil 2B or 4B.
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

'Decorated Letter Workshop: Botanicals' with Emma Leyfield of Valerian Studio

SATURDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£75

Attic Studio. Suitable For All Abilities

Decorated Letters are a chance to slow down and step into the world of snail mail with an artistic twist. In this workshop we will cover the basics of painting botanicals in watercolours and transferring this skill to decorating letters, as well as the option to include origami letter folds.

In our modern world of text messages and emails receiving a hand-written letter already feels quite special. Add the surprise of being given something beautifully painted and you have a unique gift that is infinitely more personal than an online message.

All materials and refreshments included, students will receive 5% off art materials in Pegasus art shop within the building.

To book email valerianillustration@gmail.com or visit www.valerian.co.uk.

'Expressive Portrait Painting' in Oils or Acrylics with Mark Fennell RBSA

SATURDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Skill Levels Welcome

This is a great painting course for beginners or intermediate levels, if you are looking to try a portrait for the first time or improve your portrait painting skills.

Mark will demonstrate and guide you through his well structured approach to painting a portrait. Breaking it down into easy to follow steps that will cover everything from the colour palette and mixing flesh tones to working tonally, initially blocking in shape and form to construct the head through to the finer details to create a good likeness.

Over the the two days you will have the chance to work from a life model as well as working from good quality reference photographs. You can bring your own references to paint from but they will need to be very good quality A4 images.

About Mark: Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hill top village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and singer - songwriter John Otway. His work has been selected for exhibition with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall galleries London. As well as portraiture, Mark also enjoys the challenge of painting outdoors, working at speed to capture the fleeting effects of light over landscape. Mark was elected member of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 2007. He is also a member of Oxford Art Society and Buckinghamshire Art Society.

Mark runs workshops and demonstrations for art groups and societies across the UK and occasionally in Portugal and the costa Blanca in Spain. Awarded the Winsor and Newton painting prize for his self portrait 'The diagnosis' at The Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition 2020. Selected for The Artist and Leisure Painter magazine competition at Patchings festival open art exhibition, 2014 and 2018. Awarded The Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year West Design prize, Peoples Choice Award 2012 for his portrait of 2nd world war veteran Len Nixey and also shortlisted for A&I Artist of the Year in 2019. His self portrait was shortlisted out of nearly 10,000 entries for the Daily Mail ‘Not the Turner Prize’ and exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London in 2005. Featured on ITV’s ‘A Brush With Fame’ in 2005, portrait of Antony Worrall Thompson was chosen as his favourite.

What to Bring:

This is a recommended list. If you are not sure, you can purchase products in the shop on the day.

• Two pre-primed and grounded canvases or boards. (pre ground your canvas with a thin wash of acrylic or oil paint made up of burnt sienna lightened down to a light to mid tan with titanium white, must be dry on the day). Pegasus can prepare a 16” x 12” canvas for this course – please order yours upon booking. A stretched traditional canvas costs £9.34 and the preparation cost is an additional £2.50. Such as Loxley Gold Stretched Canvas Traditional Standard or the Loxley Clear Linen Stretched Canvas Transparent Pimer.
• A selection of long handle short flat hog paint brushes for oil painters or synthetic acrylic brushes for acrylic painters, in a range of sizes from 2 -12, also small round or filbert hog brushes size 1 and 2. Such as Da Vinci Series 5123 Maestro 2 Bright Short Flat Brushes Hog Bristle.
• Palette knives - sizes 20 and 22 or similar. Such as RGM Progrip Palette Knives.
• For oil painters - Zest-It oil paint dilutant or similar low odour thinners and linseed oil.
• For oil painters, a dipper/pot to hold the thinners. Such as Metal Twin Dipper with Lids.
• Good size flat mixing palette (no plates or paper palettes please). Such as Cappelletto Walnut Palette 30 x 40cm Rectangular.
• Preferably a stay wet palette and fine mist water sprayer for acrylic painters. Such as Daler Rowney Stay Wet Palette Small.
• Oil or acrylic colours as follows - titanium white, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, cadmium red, alizarine crimson, burnt sienna or burnt umber, french ultramarine and ivory black and naples yellow are optional. We sell a range of oils at Pegasus Art, including starter sets.
• A good size jar for white spirit or low odour thinners for oil painters or water for acrylic painters to clean brushes.
• Rags or kitchen rolls to clean brushes.
• Please ensure you bring a carrier for taking home your wet painting if painting in oils.
• Please bring a packed lunch with you – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

All workshop attendees receive an extra 5% off art materials from our extensive shop next to Studio One. The shop is open from 9am, so please do come before the workshop to purchase what you need.

'Sunlit Seascapes' in Oil or Acrylics with David 'DJ' Johnson

SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio

A beginners or refreshers course

'DJ' is a talented artist (shortlisted for Artist & Illustrator Artist of the Year 2016) and adventurer with a passion for the sea and mountains. This workshop will be taught through a series of demonstrations and one to one tuition, showing you a variety of techniques and methods for applying paint, including alternatives to brushes. You will study and play with colour, light and textures, allowing for individual creative expression.

The workshop involves exploring the reflections and highlights of sunlight in the sea, as well as the textures you find in the water and foam. David teaches a variety of techniques using a palette knife and a rigger brush to achieve a wide range of textures and patterns which emulate the sunlight reflections you find in seascapes. We also use the palette knife and fingers to create cloud effects, and normal brushes to lay down the foundations of the painting. These are techniques that DJ has been exploring and developing in acrylics for a few years now. If students prefer to use oils, this is also possible – please let us know!

About DJ: DJ has developed his style through many years working in professional fine art studios – designing and producing artwork for commercial spaces, public areas and private estates around the world. He paints every day and teaches on a regular basis – he has so much energy and enthusiasm! He was shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year in 2013, 2016 and 2017. His workshops are great for building confidence, tackling unusual subjects and picking up techniques and tips.

Recommended Equipment List

This is just a guideline and you are welcome to bring your own materials and ask us any questions.

• Acrylic Paint - whatever you have already. Useful but not essential colours are - Titanium white, Yellow ochre, Burnt Sienna, Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue, Dioxazine Purple and Raw Umber. We recommend starter sets such as the Cranfield Spectrum Acrylic Paint SElection set 6 x 60ml.
• Oil Paints - Whatever you already have. DJ favours Winsor & Newton and Michael Harding paints. You can buy starter sets like Michael Harding Oil Paints Introductory Set. Recommended oil colours are: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Vermillion, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue, Dioxazine Purple and Raw Umber. Also available are Winsor Newton Water Mixable Oil Colours in 37ml tubes.
• Brushes - A range of brushes - hog hair brushes, preferably flats sizes 2, 5, 3 or 6. Such as C Roberson Fine Hog Bristle Brushes S42B flat or Pro Arte Acrylix Set W8 Series 202 & 204 Brushes.
• Container - for cleaning brushes and taking your Zest It away with you.
• Zest It.
• Palette - such as the Cappelletto Walnut Palette 25 x 35cm Oval.
• Tissue / Rags / Jam Jar - (with lid) for cleaning your brushes with.
• Canvas or Canvas Board - 10" x 12" is a good size
• Palette Knife - if you would like to have a go at using one.
• A Packed Lunch - including water – there is no café at Griffin Mill. Tea, coffee and biscuits provided throughout the day.

DJ will supply photographs of the seascapes and will also bring along some of his own paintings to show you!

You can get an extra 5% off art materials for your course from our art shop. Although the shop is closed on Sundays, you are welcome to pop in on other days, or pre-order items and we can leave them in the studio for you to collect before the workshop.

'Marine Scenes in Watercolour & Gouache' with John Scott Martin NDD PPRBSA PRSMA FRSA

SATURDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome

Learn how to paint marine scenes with eminent painter and new tutor, John Scott Martin.

We are delighted that John will be teaching our students how to paint nautical landscapes and marine scenes at Pegasus Art. He is passionate about this subject and has spent a lifetime recording the ocean and all that sail on it! You will be learning from a hugely experienced painter, past President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Don’t let this list intimidate you – his main aim is to imbue his love of painting and to share the many skills and techniques that he has learnt over the years. Beginners are most welcome.

What you will learn on this workshop:

• How to select a suitable image and explore composition
• How to prepare and stretch your watercolour paper
• Roughly sketch the scene in pencil and then convert it simply into colour
• Drawing lightly in full size onto the stretched watercolour paper
• Learn how to paint the sky and water freely using watercolour and horizontal brush strokes – John will show you this particular technique!
• Working from the horizon, learn how to forward paint the subjects simply, considering colour and more importantly, tone
• How to add detail using gouache
• Benefit from a final appraisal, questions and feedback

Above: The Artist magazine, Issue Oct 2013 - Article 'Drawn to Sea'. Click on the images to see a larger version of the article page. With kind thanks to www.painters-online.co.uk

About John Scott Martin: John is a practising painter and printmaker. He ended a long career in graphics, printing, photography and design management to return to his first love. He is well known for his images of Cornwall, the mining landscape and nautical scenes. He has worked with the National Trust and taken every opportunity to head below ground to document the mining imagery of West Cornwall. He is inspired by classic yachts, sailing barges and ships – he works in oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastels and inks. He exhibits and sells mixed media linocuts and paintings with no less than ten galleries. He occasionally writes for The Artist magazine and is the newly appointed President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. www.johnscottmartin.co.uk

Recommended materials list:

• Watercolours - John favours Winsor & Newton watercolours and gouache, but bring whatever you have and purchase any extra colours in our shop. His suggested palette for marine painting is: Payne’s Grey, Alizarine Crimson, Intense Blue (or nearest).
• Gouache - We sell single tubes or sets of gouache at Pegasus Art. Suggested colours: Permanent White, Lemon Yellow, Flame Red, Raw Sienna, Sky Blue.
• Paper - You will only need one or two sheets of paper to paint on – 210gsm or similar, smooth and as white as possible. John suggests A3 size, but you could go for A4 if you wanted. Here are some suggestions from our shop:
  • Fabriano 5 Liscia, size A1 (we can cut it in half for you) £1.85 per sheet. 210gsm, smooth surface.
  • We also have packs of paper that are slightly bigger than A4 (quarter imperial sheets). Fabriano Artistico Hot pressed 200gsm 38 x 28cm 10 sheets for £8.60. Great for taking home with you for future paintings.
• Brushes - Bring the brushes you already have and John suggests the following -
  • 1 x Size 3, synthetic brush, round - for example: Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop NOVA Multi-Use Synthetic Brush - Round Short Handles
  • 1 x Size 8, synthetic brush, flat - for example: Da Vinci 5830 Cosmotop Mix-B (Sable & Synthetic Mix) Brush Flat
• Palette or suitable plate (such as Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette 15cm)
• Pencil and sketchbook - any size
• Lunch! Please bring a packed lunch with you as there is no cafe at Griffin Mill
• All students receive and extra 5% off in our extensive shop

'Zorn Palette Portraits' in Oils with Mark Fennell RBSA

SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£85

All skill levels welcome - Attic Studio

This day workshop will focus on the basics of portrait painting, working from a live model with a limited palette of three colours plus white famously used by Swedish painter Anders Zorn to create beautiful skin tones.

It is a painting style best practiced in a quick (3 to 4 hour) wet-into-wet fashion where every brushstroke counts.

The workshop aims to help artists develop their paint and brush handling toward achieving expressive, yet realistic portraits in a more immediate way.

About Mark: Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hilltop village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and singer - songwriter John Otway. His work has been selected for exhibition with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall galleries London.

Mark runs workshops and demonstrations for art groups and societies across the UK and occasionally in Portugal and the costa Blanca in Spain. Awarded the Winsor and Newton painting prize for his self portrait 'The diagnosis' at The Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition 2020. Selected for The Artist and Leisure Painter magazine competition at Patchings festival open art exhibition, 2014 and 2018. Awarded The Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year West Design prize, Peoples Choice Award 2012 for his portrait of 2nd world war veteran Len Nixey and also shortlisted for A&I Artist of the Year in 2019. His self portrait was shortlisted out of nearly 10,000 entries for the Daily Mail ‘Not the Turner Prize’ and exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London in 2005. Featured on ITV’s ‘A Brush With Fame’ in 2005, portrait of Antony Worrall Thompson was chosen as his favourite.

What to bring:

(this is a recommended list. If you are not sure, you can purchase products in the shop on the day.)

• Two pre-primed and grounded canvases or boards. (pre ground your canvas with a thin wash of acrylic or oil paint made up of burnt sienna lightened down to a light to mid tan with titanium white, must be dry on the day) Pegasus can prepare a 16” x 12” canvas for this course – please order yours upon booking. A stretched traditional canvas costs £9.34 and the preparation cost is an additional £2.50. Such as Loxley Gold Stretched Canvas Traditional Standard or the Loxley Clear Linen Stretched Canvas Transparent Pimer.
• A selection of long handle short flat hog paint brushes for oil painters or synthetic acrylic brushes for acrylic painters, in a range of sizes from 2 -12, also small round or filbert hog brushes size 1 and 2. Such as Da Vinci Series 5123 Maestro 2 Bright Short Flat Brushes Hog Bristle.
• Palette knives - sizes 20 and 22 or similar. Such as RGM Progrip Palette Knives.
• For oil painters - Zest-It oil paint dilutant or similar low odour thinners and linseed oil.
• For oil painters, a dipper/pot to hold the thinners. Such as Metal Twin Dipper with Lids.
• Good size flat mixing palette (no plates or paper palettes please). Such as Cappelletto Walnut Palette 30 x 40cm Rectangular.
• Preferably a stay wet palette and fine mist water sprayer for acrylic painters. Such as Daler Rowney Stay Wet Palette Small.
• Oil or acrylic colours as follows - titanium white, yellow ochre, cadmium red light and ivory black. We sell a wide range of
• A good size jar for white spirit or low odour thinners for oil painters or water for acrylic painters to clean brushes. (solvents must be taken home with you and cannot be disposed of at Pegasus Art)
• Rags or kitchen rolls to clean brushes.
• Please ensure you bring a carrier for taking home your wet painting if painting in oils.
• Please bring a packed lunch with you – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

All workshop attendees receive an extra 5% off art materials from our extensive shop next to Studio One. The shop is open from 9am, so please do come before the workshop to purchase what you need.

'Paint Plein Air' with Georgina Potter

SATURDAY 9TH & SUNDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£150

Stroudwater Canal and Attic Studio

Some basic oil painting experience required

Kindly sponsored by Cranfield Colours

Learn how to paint outdoors ‘plein air’ with guidance from visiting tutor Georgina Potter.

We are delighted that Georgina Potter will be teaching our students how to successfully depict the local canal landscape using oils. This workshop is best suited for those who have some experience of using oil paints and both amateur and professional painters are very welcome.

Our base for this workshop will be the large Attic Studios at Pegasus Art. Georgie will start the day with an introduction and overview of painting plein air before heading out to the nearby Stroudwater Canal – a short walk away (5 – 8 mins).

Georgie is an ambassador for Cranfield Artist oils and will be using them during this workshop, but you can bring or purchase whichever oil paints you favour. This workshop will teach you the basics for plein air painting, working at speed with a loose style.

You will learn about the following skills on this workshop:

• How to set up and lay out your palette
• Comparing warm and cold colours in a landscape
• Working out composition
• Choosing a colour scheme and palette
• Working in a loose manner from thin to thick paint with big brushes
• Assessing your own work
• Final touches

About Georgina: After winning the Diana Brooks Award, Georgie was encouraged to focus painting full time. In 2011 she moved to Wiltshire and was inspired by the changing palette of the countryside. "I work fast and instinctively in oils, mostly from life or as a reaction to the landscape around me onto small canvas boards and then I often work these up into bigger paintings in my studios. I try to make every brush stroke matter so that I can be economical with detail, and I frequently rub areas out and start again." www.georginapotter.com

Recommended materials list:

• Oil Paints: Georgie recommends Cranfield oil paints in either student or professional artist quality. This is her ‘go-to’ basic oil painting palette:
• Titanium White – bring two small tubes or a larger one, you will use a lot!
• Cadmium Yellow genuine, Cadmium lemon yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, French Ultramarine Blue, Kings Blue deep, Pthalo Turquoise, Raw Sienna, Lamp Black.
• Additional colours; Indian Yellow, Unbleached Titanium, Cadmium Orange.
• Brushes: Bring a selection of brushes, in particular brushes over 1" wide and up to 2" wide. We have a large selection in the shop.
• Painting Medium: Georgie uses a 50/50 mix of linseed oil and Cranfield Non-Aromatic thinner.
• Brush Cleaner: Turps, white spirit or Zest It.
• Selection of Canvas Boards or primed MDF boards 30cm x 40cm: We can recommend a pre-stretched Loxley canvas costing £9.34 – we have plenty of stock at Pegasus Art. Georgie suggests keeping the cost of your canvas to a minimum so that you don’t mind making mistakes.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to Studio One at Pegasus Art.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch with you, there is no café at Pegasus Art.

'Botanical Painting - Autumn Leaves' in Watercolour with Karen Green

SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome - Attic Studio

On this Autumn Leaves workshop you will learn how to compose, draw from observation and paint in detail, using water-colour, to create a finished botanical painting reflecting an understanding of the subject whilst capturing the beauty of the leaf.

With Karen’s experience as a Botanical Artist you will be guided, with one to one support and class demonstrations, to mix colours carefully to match what you see, explore light and shadows and learn a little botany by looking at the leaf structure, variegations and different shapes.

During the session you will familiarize yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen: Karen has been working as a professional artist for nearly 10 years and has taught botanical art workshops locally since 2016. Receiving a First-class honours degree at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, she went on to work as a primary school teacher for several years before resigning to focus more on her art career. She now exhibits her work regularly in shared and solo shows.

She refers to herself as a botanical artist rather than illustrator as, although she paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant, her paintings place more emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry.

www.karengreenart.com facebook/karengreenart insta/karengreenart

Recommended Equipment List

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

• Paper: Hot pressed watercolour paper – roughly A4 or A3 size, 300gsm – one sheet for your painting and a bookmark size piece for testing colours.
• Sketchbook:
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, mould made, acid free £10.00 - Available here
  • RK Burt Botanical Fat Pad Ultra Smooth specialist pad £18.50
  • Pegasus Art A4 landscape NOT 300gsm pad £7.08
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, Hot pressed smooth £11.40 Available here
  • There is plenty of choice in the shop which Karen can guide you to. Large sheets of hot-pressed watercolour paper can be bought in the shop which can be cut down to size.
• Watercolour Paints:
• 5ml tubes or pans or a basic set
• Karen recommends Winsor & Newton, professional range or student quality Cotman range such as Winsor & Newton Individual colours in 5ml tubes, Cotman 8ml tubes, Cotman Sketchers Pocket Box 12 pans, Winsor & Newton metal box 12 x 5ml.
• Suggested colours: Lemon yellow, Cadmium yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Sap green, Hooker’s green, Yellow ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Paynes Gray.
• Brushes:
• Watercolour sable or synthetic paintbrushes with fine points – suggested sizes 2, 4 and 6. Such as Da Vinci Series 11 Maestro Kolinsky Red Sable Round Brushes or the Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Multiuse Synthetic Round Brush.
• Small paint palette or white ceramic plate such as the Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette 15cm
• Pencils HB, 2B – sharp!
• Pencil sharpener
• Putty rubber, Ruler, Kitchen roll, Water pot
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill. Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.
• All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

'Japanese Gardens' in Pen & Wash with Max Hale (to Celebrate 100 Years of Sakura)

SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio - All Abilities Welcome - Sakura samples to try

A Japanese garden is a special place. It holds mystery, adventure, and tranquillity. with a multitude of texture, plantings, colour, places of contrast in the varying elements, often with the addition of water and solid structure. A truly fascinating place to draw and paint.

In this full-day workshop, we will be celebrating 100 years of Sakura branded products. Sakura ink pens supplied for us to draw, and if you choose to include colour you may try other Sakura materials to add to your work. The practical side will be the use of the pens and how you might approach such a subject. In my experience, the busy areas of gardens can confuse as well as scare many artists into feeling overwhelmed, in this session a method of simplifying the process will be taught.

Quite simply a day of exploration along with learning to enhance your skills and build your experience with Sakura products. The workshop is suitable for all artists from beginner to more accomplished. Max will provide a selection of images to use, but if you have a high quality image of something particular you would like to paint, then please bring it along.

About Max: Max has been teaching at Pegasus Art for five years and has built up a popular following of students. He attended Harrow School of Art where he studied Fine Art and was tutored by Ken Howard OBE RA. He became an apprentice illustrator in a London studio but found his way back to fine art, his true passion. He has been teaching for over twenty five years, whilst exhibiting and painting throughout. He writes for The Artist magazine, among others, and is an Ambassador for Royal Talens. He has had paintings exhibited in most areas of the country and many in London his passion to tutor and motivate others is obvious and works in all mediums.

Recommended Equipment List

Please bring either a good quality cartridge or watercolour paper up to A4 is fine HP or NOT is best, Rough tends to be unsuitable for drawing with a pen. A sketchbook, any size, pencils, eraser. A watercolour set will give you a medium to colour your paintings if you prefer and don't forget your brushes.

• At least one 0.3 or 0.5 metal/fibre or plastic tipped ink pen using permanent black ink ie. not water soluble - such as Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliners.
• A set of watercolour paints in either tubes or pans. Minimum colours recommended are cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, sap green, cerulean blue, ultramarine, raw umber. Try the Van Gogh Watercolour Pocket Box.
• At least two watercolour brushes, one pointed round at least a size 4 or 6 and one flat size ¾ inch. Check out the Da Vinci Series 1526Y Kolinsky Red Sable Round Watercolour Brush.
• At least five sheets of A4 HP Hot Press smooth paper (NOT may do too, but rough is too textured). We have a range of papers including Bockingford Paper Fat Pad A4 Hot Pressed 300gsm.
• A water pot and some tissue or kitchen roll.
• A sketch book any size and soft pencil 2B or 4B.
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to Studio One at Pegasus Art.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch as there is no cafe at Pegasus.

'Winter Scenes in Gouache' with Max Hale

SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All abilities welcome.

Gouache is a medium that almost faded out of use in the last twenty years but is back with a vengeance. A watercolour with overpaintable qualities. You will love how this paint behaves in normal use. It has other super benefits you will discover on the day.

In this one day workshop, you will get to know gouache's particular characteristics and try out how it performs painting some topical winter scenes. Winter is a time of cool colours and the opportunity to play with all sorts of light from gentle warmth to a more austere feeling of cold and snow. Whatever you like to paint, this day will enable a real insight into the handling of this interesting revival of an almost lost medium.

Pegasus Art carry gouache selections so you may buy on the day and receive a 5% discount. Alternatively you may buy a palette of paint from Max Hale at £5 for the day.

About Max: Max has been teaching at Pegasus Art for four years and has built up a popular following of students. He attended Harrow School of Art where he studied Fine Art and was tutored by Ken Howard OBE RA. He became an apprentice illustrator in a London studio but found his way back to fine art, his true passion. He has been teaching for over twenty five years, whilst exhibiting and painting throughout. He writes for The Artist magazine, among others, and is an Ambassador for Royal Talens. He has had paintings exhibited in most areas of the country and many in London his passion to tutor and motivate others is obvious and works in all mediums.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

Recommended Equipment List:

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

• A welled palette - such as the Jakar daisy shape porcelain palette.
• Watercolour brushes at least one pointed round size 12, 14 or 16 work well. A flat brush also can be useful, perhaps a half or three quarter inch. discover our collection of brushes here.
• Tissue or kitchen roll for mopping out
• B or 2B pencil - see our full range of drawing pencils here.
• A Sketchbook - browse our selection of sketchbooks here.
• Watercolour paper of your choice A4/ 21 x 30cm is a good size - find watercolour sheet paper here.
• Please bring your references - these should be photographs or sketches. Please DO NOT bring references of paintings by other artists.
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill. Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Botanical Painting - Holly, Ivy, & Mistletoe' in Watercolour with Karen Green

SATURDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome - Attic Studio

Working from a chosen Winter flower – Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe - you will learn how to compose, draw from observation and paint in detail, using water-colour, to create a finished botanical painting reflecting an understanding of the subject whilst capturing the beauty of the plant.

With Karen’s experience as a Botanical Artist you will be guided, with one to one support and class demonstrations, to mix colours carefully to match what you see, exploring light and shadows.

During the session you will familiarize yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen: Karen has been working as a professional artist for nearly 10 years and has taught botanical art workshops locally since 2016. Receiving a First-class honours degree at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, she went on to work as a primary school teacher for several years before resigning to focus more on her art career. She now exhibits her work regularly in shared and solo shows.

She refers to herself as a botanical artist rather than illustrator as, although she paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant, her paintings place more emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry.

www.karengreenart.com facebook/karengreenart insta/karengreenart

Recommended Equipment List

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

• Paper: Hot pressed watercolour paper – roughly A4 or A3 size, 300gsm – one sheet for your painting and a bookmark size piece for testing colours.
• Sketchbook:
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, mould made, acid free £10.00 - Available here
  • RK Burt Botanical Fat Pad Ultra Smooth specialist pad £18.50
  • Pegasus Art A4 landscape NOT 300gsm pad £7.08
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, Hot pressed smooth £11.40 Available here
  • There is plenty of choice in the shop which Karen can guide you to. Large sheets of hot-pressed watercolour paper can be bought in the shop which can be cut down to size.
• Watercolour Paints:
• 5ml tubes or pans or a basic set
• Karen recommends Winsor & Newton, professional range or student quality Cotman range such as Winsor & Newton Individual colours in 5ml tubes, Cotman 8ml tubes, Cotman Sketchers Pocket Box 12 pans, Winsor & Newton metal box 12 x 5ml.
• Suggested colours: Lemon yellow, Cadmium yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Sap green, Hooker’s green, Yellow ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Paynes Gray.
• Brushes:
• Watercolour sable or synthetic paintbrushes with fine points – suggested sizes 2, 4 and 6. Such as Da Vinci Series 11 Maestro Kolinsky Red Sable Round Brushes or the Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Multiuse Synthetic Round Brush.
• Small paint palette or white ceramic plate such as the Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette 15cm
• Pencils HB, 2B – sharp!
• Pencil sharpener
• Putty rubber, Ruler, Kitchen roll, Water pot
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill. Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.
• All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

'Palette Knife Portraits in Oil' with Mark Fennell RBSA

SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Intermediates

Attic Studio

Learn how to paint bold expressive portraits with painting knives. Benefit from excellent tutoring and explore knife painting techniques, laying the paint on thick to create a rich painting full of texture and energy. The day will start with a short demonstration followed by lots of one to one tuition to help you paint a powerful and convincing impasto portrait. You will be working from photographs ~ bring along a high quality image, alternatively photographic references will be supplied by the tutor aswell.

About Mark: Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hill top village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and singer - songwriter John Otway. His work has been selected for exhibition with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall galleries London.

As well as portraiture, Mark also enjoys the challenge of painting outdoors, working at speed to capture the fleeting effects of light over landscape. Mark was elected member of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 2007. He is also a member of Oxford Art Society and Buckinghamshire Art Society. Mark runs workshops and demonstrations for art groups and societies across the UK and occasionally in Portugal and the costa Blanca in Spain.

Awarded The Winsor and Newton painting prize for his self portrait 'The diagnosis' at The Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition 2020. Selected for The Artist and Leisure Painter magazine competition at Patchings festival open art exhibition, 2014 and 2018. Awarded The Artists and Illustrators Artist of the Year West Design prize, Peoples Choice Award 2012 for his portrait of 2nd world war veteran Len Nixey and also shortlisted for A&I Artist of the Year in 2019.

His self portrait was shortlisted out of nearly 10,000 entries for the Daily Mail ‘Not the Turner Prize’ and exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London in 2005. Featured on ITV’s ‘A Brush With Fame’ in 2005, portrait of Antony Worrall Thompson was chosen as his favourite. www.markfennell.co.uk

What to Bring:

• A pre primed and grounded canvas or board, minimum size approx. 16” x 14” - Such as the Loxley Gold Stretched Traditional Standard Canvas. *Please prepare your canvas with a thin wash of burnt sienna lightened with titanium white* If you don’t want to ground your canvas, you can buy a linen one such as Loxley Clear Linen Stretched Canvas. If you would like Pegasus to prepare you a canvas for this course please order yours upon booking. A stretched traditional canvas costs £9.34 and the preparation cost is an additional £2.50.
• A good photographic reference of a subject of your choice or suitable portrait images will be provided.
• Palette knifes - sizes 20, 22 and 30 or similar. Quality knives please, no plastic knives. Such as Palette Knives Set of 5 Assorted Stainless Steel.
• Zest It or similar odourless paint thinners. Also bring a dipper pot to hold the thinners.
• Good size flat mixing palette (no plates or paper palettes please). Try the Cappelletto Walnut Palette 30x40cam Rectangular.
• Oil paints: recommended colours: titanium white, naples yellow, lemon yellow, cadmium red, alizarine crimson, burnt sienna, ivory black, french ultramarine. We sell a range of oils and acrylics at Pegasus Art, including starter sets.

Other Notes:

• Please ensure you bring a suitable carrier for taking home your wet painting. Mark recommends buying some carrier clips that attach at each corner of the canvas to keep wet paintings apart.
• Sticks of charcoal (optional).
• Please bring a packed lunch with you – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

All workshop attendees receive an extra 5% off art materials from our extensive shop next to Studio One. The shop is open from 9am, so please do come before the workshop to purchase what you need.

'Serene Seascapes' in Mixed Media with Mel Cormack-Hicks

SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£70

All abilities welcome

What will I learn? How to explore and experiment with freedom. How to create movement using layers. Mel will show you how to create serene seascapes with her experimental multimedia techniques. Her methods are very hands on, so be prepared to get messy. You will experiment with materials and leave with new exciting skills that will allow you to create powerful seascapes that contain the magic ingredient….movement.

What will I achieve? Learn how to create layers of light and colour that will give your painting movement and depth. You’ll return home with many mixed media experiments, sketches and paintings.

About Mel: A Fine Art painting degree from Cheltenham in the mid 90’s allowed Mel to find her artistic voice. Following this, she spent twenty years teaching secondary school pupils and just three years ago decided to become a full time professional artist. Her first solo show at Chapel Arts in Cheltenham launched her new career. She has exhibited at ‘The Other Art Fair’ a Saatchi affiliated show and is represented by Marine House at Beer. She is full of energy and enthusiasm for her new audience of students and is loving sharing her creative process.

www.melaniecormack-hicks.co.uk

Materials: Mel’s suggestion is to bring a selection of materials, both dry and wet. Then you can try out mixed media techniques too. She does not insist that you have everything from the list below – just bring what you can. This workshop is not suitable for oil paints.

All attendees receive and extra 5% off in our shop. All of the materials below are available in our extensive art shop – please ask us if you need any advice.

Recommended Equipment List:

• Quick Drying Materials - Bring materials that can dry quickly: acrylic ink, watercolour, watercolour pencils, gouache and acrylic paints. Anything we can mix with water to make it more fluid.
• Daler Rowney inks, suggested colours: Prussian blue, Payne’s Grey, Cadmium Red, White and Sap Green.
• Watercolour pencils, such as Derwent inktense pencils.
• Acrylic paints, such as Amsterdam standard acrylic paints 120ml tubes.
• Resist Materials - Candles, oil pastels and masking fluid if you would like to try it. Winsor & Newton masking fluid is my favourite.
• Dry Materials - Pencils, chalk pastels and a glue stick.
• Tools - Pipette (acrylic inks have these in the top), brushes, palette knife, straw to blow through! If you have one, bring a hairdryer to get the paint and ink moving!
• SKetchbook - Bring anything you already have – any format. My preference is Pink Pig – a square, ringbound sketchbook available at Pegasus Art. I’m happy for you to work in your sketchbook all day, but if you would like to work larger, there are some suggestions below.
• Surface Suggestions - Thick card, hot press watercolour paper (the smooth type), wooden boards or mount board (these will need a layer of gesso on them – ask Mel), You could bring canvas, but I find that the materials don’t flow across the surface very easily. The size you bring is up to you, but if you do decide to bring something large, bring smaller sizes too!
• Bring five print outs of seascapes that have meaning to you - They could be several images of the same location from different angles OR different images. The printouts should be A5 size minimum. You can bring photographs, but please note, you might be painting on top of them and possibly tearing them up.
• Don’t forget to bring a packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill - Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Culture & History of Japan' in Ink & Wash with Max Hale (To Celebrate 100 Years of Sakura)

SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio - All Abilities Welcome - Sakura samples to try

Japanese culture is quite well defined, even to us as Europeans, the magic and enigma of Mount Fuji, the cherry blossom which is so highly revered by tradition. Martial arts and of course sumo wrestling, Japan's national sport. The beauty of the Geisha could perhaps fill the session for you or the power of a Samurai sword fight.

Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples both have incredible form and are a beauty within themselves. A piece of Japan from which you can make superb drawings and colour using Sakura pens supplied by the company to try.

This workshop is to celebrate the 100 years of Sakura branded art materials. Ink pens and other materials will be available for you to test out during this workshop. You will learn to create form and clear lines, make drawings that please the eye and demonstrate how pen work can be stunning on its own. Adding colour is your choice. Some reference photographs will be available to help you, but as the subject is vast it is better if you bring your own references. The workshop is open to all artists, from beginner to accomplished.

About Max: Max has been teaching at Pegasus Art for five years and has built up a popular following of students. He attended Harrow School of Art where he studied Fine Art and was tutored by Ken Howard OBE RA. He became an apprentice illustrator in a London studio but found his way back to fine art, his true passion. He has been teaching for over twenty five years, whilst exhibiting and painting throughout. He writes for The Artist magazine, among others, and is an Ambassador for Royal Talens. He has had paintings exhibited in most areas of the country and many in London his passion to tutor and motivate others is obvious and works in all mediums.

Recommended Equipment List

Please bring either a good quality cartridge or watercolour paper up to A4 is fine HP or NOT is best, Rough tends to be unsuitable for drawing with a pen. A sketchbook, any size, pencils, eraser. A watercolour set will give you a medium to colour your paintings if you prefer and don't forget your brushes.

• At least one 0.3 or 0.5 metal/fibre or plastic tipped ink pen using permanent black ink ie. not water soluble - such as Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliner Pens.
• A set of watercolour paints in either tubes or pans. Minimum colours recommended are cadmium yellow medium, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, sap green, cerulean blue, ultramarine, raw umber. Try the Van Gogh Watercolour Pocket Box.
• At least two watercolour brushes, one pointed round at least a size 4 or 6 and one flat size ¾ inch. Check out the Da Cinci Series 1526Y Kolinsky Red Sable Round Watercolour Brush.
• At least five sheets of A4 HP Hot Press smooth paper (NOT may do too, but rough is too textured). We have a range of papers including Bockingford Paper Fat Pad A4 Hot Pressed 300gsm.
• A water pot and some tissue or kitchen roll.
• A sketch book any size and soft pencil 2B or 4B.
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to Studio One at Pegasus Art.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch as there is no cafe at Pegasus.

'Dramatic Sunset Skyscapes' in Oil with David 'DJ' Johnson

SATURDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2021

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome including beginners

Artist David ‘DJ’ Johnson is well known for his stunning plein air paintings – he is an adventurer who likes to climb mountains and paint extraordinary landscapes. He is fascinated with skies, horizons, light and shadow. Join him on this day workshop to explore all these powerful elements of landscape, and particularly skyscape, painting.

He will teach you how to create a sunset sky using oils with brushes and palette knives. DJ will guide you step by step, working from an image he has selected – return home with a finished (or almost finished) painting.

You will explore colour, play with the light and discover new techniques. If you’ve never used a palette knife before, don’t worry, this is the ideal way to have a go. DJ says, “It’s very easy and very effective if you follow the steps!”

About DJ: DJ has developed his style through many years working in professional fine art studios – designing and producing artwork for commercial spaces, public areas and private estates around the world. He paints every day and teaches on a regular basis – he has so much energy and enthusiasm! He was shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year 2016. His workshops are great for building confidence, tackling unusual subjects and picking up techniques and tips.

Recommended Equipment List

• Whatever oil paints you already have. DJ favours Winsor & Newton and Michael Harding paints. You can buy starter sets like Michael Harding Oil Paints Introductory Set. Recommended oil colours are: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Vermillion, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue, Dioxazine Purple and Raw Umber. Also available in Winsor Newton Water Mixable Oil Colours in 37ml tubes.
• A range of brushes – hog hair brushes, preferably flats sizes 2, 5, 3 or 6. Such as C Roberson Fine Hog Bristle Brushes S42B flat.
• Container/ jar with a lid for cleaning brushes and taking away your Zest It.
• Zest It.
• Palette - such as the Cappelletto Walnut Palette 25 x 35cm Oval.
• A packed lunch – there is no café at Griffin Mill

Don’t worry if you’re not sure about the above materials list – DJ can help you choose from the art shop on the day.

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to Studio One at Pegasus Art.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Experimental, Evocative Landscapes' in Mixed Media with Mel Cormack-Hicks

SATURDAY 22ND JANUARY 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome

Debunking Composition! Mel will show you how to create dynamic compositions with her easy to follow hands on teaching methods. You will experiment with composition and leave with the skills that will allow you to make use of composition with impact.

Colour Theory - Using colour really helps to evoke emotion in our artwork. All too often however it becomes an element of our artwork that we guess at. Melanie will show you how to use colour theory as a tool to create impact leaving you feeling confident about your colour palette.

What Will I Achieve? - On this one-day workshop you will create experimental landscape compositions. You will have the option to work on a larger piece in the afternoon. These will have visual impact because of your newly found knowledge of the vital ingredients, composition and colour.

Materials - Mel's suggestion is to bring a selection of materials, both dry and wet. Then you can try out mixed media techniques too. She does not insist that you have everything from the list below – just bring what you can. This workshop is not suitable for oil paints.

About Mel: A Fine Art painting degree from Cheltenham in the mid 90’s allowed Mel to find her artistic voice. Following this, she spent twenty years teaching secondary school pupils and just three years ago decided to become a full time professional artist. Her first solo show at Chapel Arts in Cheltenham launched her new career. She has exhibited at ‘The Other Art Fair’ a Saatchi affiliated show and is represented by Marine House at Beer. She is full of energy and enthusiasm for her new audience of students and is loving sharing her creative process. www.melaniecormack-hicks.co.uk

Recommended Equipment List

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art. All of the materials below are available.

• Quick Drying Materials
• Bring materials that can dry quickly: acrylic ink, watercolour, watercolour pencils, gouache and acrylic paints. Anything we can mix with water to make it more fluid.
• Daler Rowney inks, suggested colours: Prussian blue, Payne’s Grey, Cadmium Red, White and Sap Green
• Watercolour pencils - You can buy single pencils such as Derwent Inktense Pencils.
• Acrylic paint such as Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paints.
• Resist Materials
• Candles, oil pastels and masking fluid if you would like to try it. Winsor & Newton masking fluid is my favourite.
• Dry Materials
• Pencils, chalk pastels and a glue stick.
• Tools
• Pipette (acrylic inks have these in the top), brushes, palette knife, straw to blow through! If you have one, bring a hairdryer to get the paint and ink moving!
• Sketchbook
• Bring anything you already have – any format. My preference is Pink Pig – a square, ringbound sketchbook available here. I’m happy for you to work in your sketchbook all day, but if you would like to work larger, there are some suggestions below.
• Surface Suggestions
• Thick card, hot press watercolour paper (the smooth type), wooden boards or mount board (these will need a layer of gesso on them – ask Mel). You could bring canvas, but I find that the materials don’t flow across the surface very easily. The size you bring is up to you, but if you do decide to bring something large, bring smaller sizes too!
• Five Print Outs of Landscapes That Have Meaning to You.
• They could be several images of the same location from different angles OR different images. The printouts should be A5 size minimum. You can bring photographs, but please note, you will be painting on top of them and possibly tearing them up.
• A Packed Lunch and Water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Serene Seascapes' in Mixed Media with Mel Cormack-Hicks

SATURDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome

What will I learn? - How to explore and experiment with freedom. How to create movement using layers. Mel will show you how to create serene seascapes with her experimental multimedia techniques. Her methods are very hands on, so be prepared to get messy. You will experiment with materials and leave with new exciting skills that will allow you to create powerful seascapes that contain the magic ingredient... movement.

What will I achieve? - Learn how to create layers of light and colour that will give your painting movement and depth. You’ll return home with many mixed media experiments, sketches and paintings.

Materials - Mel's suggestion is to bring a selection of materials, both dry and wet. Then you can try out mixed media techniques too. She does not insist that you have everything from the list below – just bring what you can. This workshop is not suitable for oil paints.

About Mel: A Fine Art painting degree from Cheltenham in the mid 90’s allowed Mel to find her artistic voice. Following this, she spent twenty years teaching secondary school pupils and just three years ago decided to become a full time professional artist. Her first solo show at Chapel Arts in Cheltenham launched her new career. She has exhibited at ‘The Other Art Fair’ a Saatchi affiliated show and is represented by Marine House at Beer. She is full of energy and enthusiasm for her new audience of students and is loving sharing her creative process. www.melaniecormack-hicks.co.uk

Recommended Equipment List

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop. All of the materials below are available in our extensive art shop – please ask us if you need any advice.

• Quick Drying Materials
• Bring materials that can dry quickly: acrylic ink, watercolour, watercolour pencils, gouache and acrylic paints. Anything we can mix with water to make it more fluid.
• Daler Rowney inks, suggested colours: Prussian blue, Payne’s Grey, Cadmium Red, White and Sap Green
• Watercolour pencils - You can buy single pencils such as Derwent Inktense Pencils.
• Acrylic paint such as Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paints.
• Resist Materials
• Candles, oil pastels and masking fluid if you would like to try it. Winsor & Newton masking fluid is my favourite.
• Dry Materials
• Pencils, chalk pastels and a glue stick.
• Tools
• Pipette (acrylic inks have these in the top), brushes, palette knife, straw to blow through! If you have one, bring a hairdryer to get the paint and ink moving!
• Sketchbook
• Bring anything you already have – any format. My preference is Pink Pig – a square, ringbound sketchbook available here. I’m happy for you to work in your sketchbook all day, but if you would like to work larger, there are some suggestions below.
• Surface Suggestions
• Thick card, hot press watercolour paper (the smooth type), wooden boards or mount board (these will need a layer of gesso on them – ask Mel). You could bring canvas, but I find that the materials don’t flow across the surface very easily. The size you bring is up to you, but if you do decide to bring something large, bring smaller sizes too!
• Five Print Outs of Seascapes That Have Meaning to You.
• They could be several images of the same location from different angles OR different images. The printouts should be A5 size minimum. You can bring photographs, but please note, you might be painting on top of them and possibly tearing them up.
• A Packed Lunch and Water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Botanical Painting - Spring Flowers in Watercolour' with Karen Green

SATURDAY 12TH MARCH 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome

Working from a selection of Spring Flowers, you will learn how to compose, draw from observation and paint in detail, using water-colour, to create a finished botanical painting reflecting an understanding of the subject whilst capturing the beauty of the flower.

With Karen's experience as a Botanical Artist you will be guided, with one to one support and class demonstrations, to mix colours carefully to match what you see, explore light and shadows and learn a little leaf botany, looking at the shape, sizes, structure and anatomy of various leaves, their vein arrangement (venation) and the important job that leaves play in the plant’s life.

During the session you will familiarize yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen:Karen has been working as a professional artist for nearly 10 years and has taught botanical art workshops locally since 2016. Receiving a First Class honours degree at The Arts Institute of Bournemouth,she went on to work as a primary school teacher for several years before resigning to focus more on her art career. She now exhibits her work regularly in shared and solo shows.

She refers to herself as a botanical artist rather than illustrator as, although she paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant, her paintings place more emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry.

www.karengreenart.com

facebook.com/karengreenart/

insta/karengreenart

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

Recommended Equipment List:

• Paper:
• Hot pressed watercolour paper – roughly A4 or A3 size, 300gsm – one sheet for your painting and a bookmark size piece for testing colours.
• Sketchbook options:
• The Langton A4 Daler Rowney Rough, mould made, acid free £10.00
• RK Burt Botanical Fat Pad Ultra Smooth specialist pad £18.50
• Pegasus Art A4 landscape NOT 300gsm pad £7.08
• The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, Hot pressed smooth £11.40
• There is plenty of choice in the shop which Karen can guide you to. Large sheets of hot-pressed watercolour paper can be bought in the shop which can be cut down to size.
• Watercolour Paints:
• 5ml tubes or pans or a basic set
• Karen recommends Winsor & Newton, professional range or student quality Cotman range. Try Winsor & Newton Watercolour Individual 5ml Tubes, Cotman Watercolour 8ml Tubes, Cotman Watercolour Pocket ox 12 Half Pans or Winsor & Newton Watercolour Metal Box Set 12 x 5ml
• Suggested colours: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Sap Green, Hooker’s Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Paynes Grey.
• For the orchid workshop: Permanent Rose, Purple Lake, Rose Madder. These can be bought on the day depending on the flower you choose to paint.
• Brushes:
• Watercolour sable or synthetic paint brushes with fine points – suggested sizes 2, 4 and 6. Try Da Vinci Series 11 Maestro Kolinsky Red Sable Round Watercolour Brush or Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Synthetic Brush Round.
• Small paint palette - such as Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette
• Pencils HB, 2B – sharp!
• Pencil sharpener
• Putty rubber
• Ruler
• Kitchen roll
• Water pot
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Botanical Painting - Blossom in Watercolour' with Karen Green

SATURDAY 7TH MAY 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome

Working from a selection of Spring Flowers, you will learn how to compose, draw from observation and paint in detail, using water-colour, to create a finished botanical painting reflecting an understanding of the subject whilst capturing the beauty of the flower.

With Karen's experience as a Botanical Artist you will be guided, with one to one support and class demonstrations, to mix colours carefully to match what you see, explore light and shadows and learn a little leaf botany, looking at the shape, sizes, structure and anatomy of various leaves, their vein arrangement (venation) and the important job that leaves play in the plant’s life.

During the session you will familiarize yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen:Karen has been working as a professional artist for nearly 10 years and has taught botanical art workshops locally since 2016. Receiving a First Class honours degree at The Arts Institute of Bournemouth,she went on to work as a primary school teacher for several years before resigning to focus more on her art career. She now exhibits her work regularly in shared and solo shows.

She refers to herself as a botanical artist rather than illustrator as, although she paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant, her paintings place more emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry.

www.karengreenart.com

facebook.com/karengreenart/

insta/karengreenart

All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

Recommended Equipment List:

• Paper:
• Hot pressed watercolour paper – roughly A4 or A3 size, 300gsm – one sheet for your painting and a bookmark size piece for testing colours.
• Sketchbook options:
• The Langton A4 Daler Rowney Rough, mould made, acid free £10.00
• RK Burt Botanical Fat Pad Ultra Smooth specialist pad £18.50
• Pegasus Art A4 landscape NOT 300gsm pad £7.08
• The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, Hot pressed smooth £11.40
• There is plenty of choice in the shop which Karen can guide you to. Large sheets of hot-pressed watercolour paper can be bought in the shop which can be cut down to size.
• Watercolour Paints:
• 5ml tubes or pans or a basic set
• Karen recommends Winsor & Newton, professional range or student quality Cotman range. Try Winsor & Newton Watercolour Individual 5ml Tubes, Cotman Watercolour 8ml Tubes, Cotman Watercolour Pocket ox 12 Half Pans or Winsor & Newton Watercolour Metal Box Set 12 x 5ml
• Suggested colours: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Sap Green, Hooker’s Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Paynes Grey.
• For the orchid workshop: Permanent Rose, Purple Lake, Rose Madder. These can be bought on the day depending on the flower you choose to paint.
• Brushes:
• Watercolour sable or synthetic paint brushes with fine points – suggested sizes 2, 4 and 6. Try Da Vinci Series 11 Maestro Kolinsky Red Sable Round Watercolour Brush or Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Synthetic Brush Round.
• Small paint palette - such as Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette
• Pencils HB, 2B – sharp!
• Pencil sharpener
• Putty rubber
• Ruler
• Kitchen roll
• Water pot
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.

'Pet Portraits in Oil' with Lucy Burton

SATURDAY 14TH MAY 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

Attic Studio. All Abilities Welcome - improver, intermediate or advanced

We are delighted to introduce new tutor Lucy Burton who will be teaching you how to paint a portrait of your pet in oils. Together you will work through a stage-by-stage process to create a portrait in oils - using an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working. We are aiming to make the eyes come alive and give the animal and your painting lots of personality! Lucy hopes to inspire you with some new ideas and techniques to take away with you and apply to your own work.

You will be working from your own image, either from an iPad or you can use a photograph at least 5" x 5". The animal's eyes must be clear and in focus. Crop your image so that it is square. The head of the animal should take up most of the frame. The better the reference image – the better the painting! Techniques covered include composition, tonal grounds, colour mixing, alla prima and brushwork.

About Lucy: "I'd describe myself as a creative all-rounder! I have a degree in 'Industrial Design & Technology' and paint regularly 'alla prima' in oil paint, always aiming to produce a piece of art that is full of character and colour. A good composition and the freedom to experiment with colour and interesting brush marks is what inspires me most and it's what I enjoy teaching others. I've exhibited in 'Warwickshire Open Studios' and taken part in 'Landscape Artist of the Year' as a wildcard artist." www.lucyburtonart.com

Recommended Equipment List:

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop

• Please bring a photograph of your animal or an image on an iPad or tablet. It should be high quality, square if possible with the dog taking up the central point of the image.
• Also bring a black and white print out, square cropped image as large as you can get it (A4 ideally) like this:

• An 12" x 9" gessoboard (We stock a 12" x 9" board like the Ampersand Gessobord 1/8" (3mm) painting panel).
• A selection of synthetic brushes. I like to use a 1/4", 1/2" or 3/4" short flat, filbert size 2 and a round size 1. You can browse our range of brushes here.
• A palette knife size 22 or similar. Explore our palette knives here.
• Oil colours as follows: Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarine Crimson, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, French Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue. If you have any other colours, please bring them with you. Popular brands include Cranfield Studio or Artist oils or Michael Harding. Or you could buy a starter set.
• Liquin painting medium such as Winsor & Newton Liquin.
• A flat mixing palette such as Cappelletto Walnut Palette 20 x 30cm rectangle or a tear off palette such as the Daler Rowney A4 Tear Off Palette Pad 40 Sheets.
• A pencil and a ruler.
• Something to take your 8" x 8" board home.
• A jam jar and some Zest It for cleaning your brushes.
• Plenty of rags or kitchen roll.
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill.

Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day. All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to Studio One at Pegasus Art.

'Botanical Painting - Peas & Pears' in Watercolour with Karen Green

SATURDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 2022

10.00am - 4.00pm

£80

All abilities welcome - Attic Studio

Choosing from a variety of seasonal fruits from quinces, figs, peas and pears, you will learn how to compose, draw from observation and paint in detail, using water-colour, to create a finished botanical painting reflecting an understanding of the subject whilst capturing the beauty of the fruit.

With Karen’s experience as a Botanical Artist you will be guided, with one to one support and class demonstrations, to mix colours carefully to match what you see, explore light and shadows and learn a little botany by exploring cross-sections, looking at the seeds and internal structure of the fruit.

During the session you will familiarize yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen: Karen has been working as a professional artist for nearly 10 years and has taught botanical art workshops locally since 2016. Receiving a First-class honours degree at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, she went on to work as a primary school teacher for several years before resigning to focus more on her art career. She now exhibits her work regularly in shared and solo shows.

She refers to herself as a botanical artist rather than illustrator as, although she paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant, her paintings place more emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry.

www.karengreenart.com facebook/karengreenart insta/karengreenart

Recommended Equipment List

The shop will be open from 9am, so you will have time to purchase materials before the workshop. Our staff can offer you any advice you need.

• Paper: Hot pressed watercolour paper – roughly A4 or A3 size, 300gsm – one sheet for your painting and a bookmark size piece for testing colours.
• Sketchbook:
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, mould made, acid free £10.00 - Available here
  • RK Burt Botanical Fat Pad Ultra Smooth specialist pad £18.50
  • Pegasus Art A4 landscape NOT 300gsm pad £7.08
  • The Langton A4 Daler Rowney, Hot pressed smooth £11.40 Available here
  • There is plenty of choice in the shop which Karen can guide you to. Large sheets of hot-pressed watercolour paper can be bought in the shop which can be cut down to size.
• Watercolour Paints:
• 5ml tubes or pans or a basic set
• Karen recommends Winsor & Newton, professional range or student quality Cotman range such as Winsor & Newton Individual colours in 5ml tubes, Cotman 8ml tubes, Cotman Sketchers Pocket Box 12 pans, Winsor & Newton metal box 12 x 5ml.
• Suggested colours: Lemon yellow, Cadmium yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Sap green, Hooker’s green, Yellow ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Paynes Gray.
• Brushes:
• Watercolour sable or synthetic paintbrushes with fine points – suggested sizes 2, 4 and 6. Such as Da Vinci Series 11 Maestro Kolinsky Red Sable Round Brushes or the Da Vinci Series 5570 Cosmotop Nova Multiuse Synthetic Round Brush.
• Small paint palette or white ceramic plate such as the Jakar Daisy Shape Porcelain Palette 15cm
• Pencils HB, 2B – sharp!
• Pencil sharpener
• Putty rubber, Ruler, Kitchen roll, Water pot
• A packed lunch and water – there is no café at Griffin Mill. Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the day.
• All attendees receive 5% off in our shop adjacent to the Attic Studio at Pegasus Art.