Module 2 - Composition and Colour
I hope that you're building a habit of drawing daily and meditating when you can and you are starting to feel more free and appreciative of your own way of drawing.
Here is an audio introduction that summarises what's written below and what's written in the overview. There's a little more in the overview video but you can listen to that too ;)
These are the materials that you're most likely to need for this module:
a sketchbook/ journal to make notes, thumbnail sketches and collage small compositions
loose sheets of paper to paint and draw onto and use to collage with - so not too thick for that reason; sketchbook paper would be fine, but ideally, you'll be collaging into a sketchbook so loose sheets are best, even wet strength tissue paper or photocopy paper
a variety of brushes and application tools - eg brayer, cloth, spatulas, clothes peg, anything you can experiment to make interesting marks with using acrylic paint
scissors and glue such as PVA, Pritt or similar stick glue or even a soft gel medium (acrylic paint is essentially glue - as are the mediums)
black and white acrylic paint initially
then a selection of acrylic colour paints*
a value scale to refer to which you will see in this lesson coming up
a phone or camera to take quick compositional photos in a variety of ways from set ups you will create and to help you settle on a composition before glueing a collage
thicker card if you want to start to make colour swatches to keep for future reference or a dedicated sketchbook for creating colour mixes
* I'd like you to become really familiar with what are cool blues/reds/yellows and what are warm versions of those hues as this is how you will be able to confidently create almost any colour you like from these primaries.
These are suggestions for each variant (not an exhaustive list but a starting point. If you have others already, assess them by comparing them with each other)
cool blue: ultramarine or cobalt
warm blue : pthalo or cerulean
cool red: crimson
warm red: cadmium red or naphthol
cool yellow: lemon (process yellow is teetering on cool)
warm yellow: cadmium yellow or cadmium yellow deep
quinacridone magenta or a vivid pink
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white
I also suggest that you buy the following as a minimum of earthy colours Burnt Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Paynes Gray
Burnt umber
Do explore the colours you already have throughout the course too.