Please can you bring the following materials with you:
Winter Gardening in Stitches with Barbara Walters
- Cotton background fabric – could be coloured or patterned.
- Fabric soaps.*
- A good selection of embroidery threads.*
- Embroidery ring preferably 8 inches.
- Sharp embroidery scissors, pins, needles.
Painting and Printing Fabric for Embroiders with Barbara Walters
- 1m cotton or calico. This needs to be washed.
- Gloves and protective apron or old clothes.
- Craft knife and cutting board (if available).
- There will be an extra charge of £3.00 for fabric paints.
Painting on Tiles with Veronica Currie
- Acrylic paints.
- Brushes.
- Jar (for brushes).
Still Life in Oils with Veronica Currie
- Oil paints (basic set).
- Oil painting medium.
- White spirit.
- Canvas (or canvas board or primed paper suitable for oils).
- Brushes (basic flat ones).
- Pencil.
- Jar (for brushes).
- Artists palette (for mixing paint).
- Water based paint e.g. acrylic, watercolour or gouache (at least 2 colours).
- Assorted paint brushes, but advise bringing a ¾” cheap, flat paint brush.
- Any implements you might have for applying paint e.g. foam rollers, soft rags, twigs, bamboo pen, an old tooth brush etc.
- Water container and palette.
- A collection of different textured papers e.g. kitchen towel, news paper, brown wrapping paper, textured wall paper, corrugated card, tissue paper etc.
- Textured pieces of material, if you have them· Scissors, pencil· Kitchen towel or rags for drying paint brushes etc.
- Glue brush· Paper for painting on: 2 sheets of A2, either 140lb watercolour paper or heavy-duty cartridge paper.
- Water sprayer, if you have one.
- Notebook and pen, if you wish to take notes·
- PVA glue* or Mervin Medium·
- Oil pastels* or oil bars·
- Soft pastels*.
*Some will be available to use in the class.
