Dorking Group of Artists Winter Programme January - April 2024
- Sessions are free unless a fee is quoted. Workshops with guest lecturers are £10/day or £5/half day. Please bring cash for this.
- Teas, coffee and biscuits are provided (please wash your own cup up).
- Please help to put away tables and chairs at the end of the session if you are able.
- Please always arrive on time for guest speakers and should you have to leave early, please make your apologies to them.
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Jan 16th 10am -1pm |
New Year’s Resolutions – decide how to develop your work…. try something new. |
Bring along an appropriate medium. |
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Jan 23rd 10am -1pm £5.00 fee |
Markmaking workshop – Janet Twinn Using unusual items to create your art work |
See notes below for suggestions.
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30th Jan 10am -1pm |
We are continuing with Markmaking. |
Bring along what you need to continue. |
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6th Feb 10am -1pm |
Still Life - Bring in your own props or work you want to finish. |
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13th Feb 10am -4pm £10.00 fee |
Ronnie Ireland - All day workshop |
See notes below. |
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20th Feb 10am -1pm |
Using a complex background in your work. |
Bring photos or patterned paper or fabric to work from. |
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27th Feb 10am-1pm |
Still life. |
Bring in your own props or work you want to finish |
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Mar 5th 10am -4pm £10.00 fee |
Landscape in Oils - Tushar Sabale - All day workshop |
See notes below. |
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Mar 12th 10am -1pm |
Collage – Jacky Hatton Demonstration of two of the many uses of collage. |
See notes below. |
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Mar 19th 10am -1pm |
Life Drawing – Alison Carlier |
Bring lots of paper and drawing equipment/pens /pencils etc. |
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Mar 26th 10am -1pm |
Collaborative art project - we will provide you with a board to work on. |
Bring a medium you would like to work in and supporting photos etc. |
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April 2nd 10am -1pm |
Still life. |
Bring in your own props or work you want to finish |
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April 9th 10am -4pm £10.00 fee |
Gouache - Deanna Sargent - All day workshop
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Materials list below. |
Deanna Sergent
GOUACHE…such a versatile medium.
Gouache has a surprisingly long history going back to Ancient Egypt but in more recent times artists used it in graphic design and illustration because, as it is opaque and dries very flat, it photographs well. Like watercolour it contains gum Arabic but also fillers or chalks to give it this opaque quality. It is its opacity that enables it to be layered over either watercolour or itself in painting.
Almost all of you who paint in watercolour have a tube of opaque white paint in your kit. We’re going to explore how versatile that tube of white paint can be, and also how the huge range of gouache colours can either enhance your watercolour painting in mixed media or be used as a medium in their own right.
Materials list for DGA workshop
- watercolour paint; white opaque paint…either titanium white, designer’s white, or permanent white NOT zinc white as this is a mixing white and not very opaque
- selection of gouache colours…primaries so you can mix them… maybe some earth colours
- separate palette for your gouache paints, preferably a white palette so the colours are visible
- a little spray bottle of water…gouache paints need to be sprayed often once they’re exposed to air to keep them useable
- masking tape
- coloured pencils (optional)
- and all the other usual watercolour painting equipment: watercolour paper, brushes, water receptacles, paper towels, brushes.
… and please bring some REFERENCE MATERIAL …photos of flowers in vases, gardens, trees, buildings etc.