LIFE DRAWING John Badcock
APRIL 17th or 18th
John Badcock, born in Queenstown and now based in Geraldine, has been a professional artist for over three decades. His accolades include solo exhibitions throughout New Zealand. Badcock's recently published first book "Passing People" provides and in-depth look at his series of 100 portraits.
John will demonstrate his skills of life drawing. We will work with charcoal for the first day and with paints on the second day.
The classes will be held from 9am-4pm for both days at QAS rooms cnr Ballarat and Stanley St.
Materials needed for the class
Drawing paper - similar size to the canvas you are going to use. Newsprint is cheap and good at this stage
Charcoal - willow plus compressed , rubber, rags.
Palette knife
Paint - Your favourite colours plus raw umber, raw sienna, burnt sienna, cadmium red light, cobalt blue deep, mars black, linseed oil.
Brushes - Your favourite again, large Filbert 15-20 mm wide plus some smaller ones for finer details.
Canvas Stretched - No smaller than 76 cm x 50 cm but these sort of proportions.
Easel - You will need a sturdy easel as he expects his students to stand whilst working.
CONTACT: Ryoko -ryoko_tabuchi@hotmail.com or 021 0227 4219
