Charles Cooper seascape
You will be able to book tickets from 9:30am on Wednesday 29th January.
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Lecturer: Charles Cooper
Location: NAS Building 28 Ground Floor (under the Chapel)
Like other paint mediums, watercolour can be used in controlled ways that exploit its inherent luminosity using pale or saturated washes but it also offers wonderful opportunities to create accidental effects. With objects, campus spaces and the figure as motifs, the workshop will introduce basic preparations and approaches to the use of this medium.
(a more detailed list will be sent to participants)
- Paper- blocks, pads or separate sheets
- Brushes
2 inch ‘flat’
Small ‘flat’ or ‘bright’
Mop
Liner
- Paint– tubes or half-pans (pre-dried)
- Pencils- graphite , conte or watercolour
- Ink
- Palettes
- Water-containers
- Recycled towels
Lecturer: Charles Cooper is best known for his densely worked oil paintings of road surfaces and signage but he is also an avid, accomplished watercolourist. He won the 1998 AGNSW Trustees’ Watercolour Prize. He has taught drawing and painting at the National Art School over two decades. Image below: Charles Cooper, 54th Street interior
Grace Cossington-Smith
JMW Turner
Otto Pareroultja
Maryanne Coutts
