Workshop Overview

Join acclaimed artist Áine Divine for a three-day landscape painting workshop at Mulranny Arts next July. Immerse yourself in the beauty of the Mulranny coastline as you gather inspiration and paint directly in the landscape, surrounded by sweeping vistas and ever-changing light. Áine will guide you through her intuitive process, from making quick tonal studies and exploring composition with a viewfinder, to working up rich, layered paintings back in the studio. Through collage, paint and mixed media, you’ll capture the essence of the landscape and discover new ways of seeing and responding to nature.

Equipment and Supplies

In her demonstrations she will use ink, oil pastels, stencils and a selection of collage papers along with acrylic paint. (See Áine’s colours and materials list below)

Along with the equipment list below, you are invited to bring any art materials you already have that could be used in mixed media painting. (Maybe there are materials gathering dust that you’ve never used!)

Áine will bring paper enough for everyone to buy at €3 per sheet. Expect to use one or two sheets each day.

Mixed Media Equipment List

• Acrylic Paint in these colours

Hookers or Jenkins green
Sap green
Lemon yellow
Cadmium red
Crimson
Ultramarine blue
Cerulean blue
White
Vandyke brown (or burnt umber)
Any Violet or Purple
Yellow ochre (optional)

• Indian ink, 

• Any pastels to make a drawn line over the acrylic - for example;

  oil pastels, caran dache watercoluble pastels, or simple children’s crayons.

• Collage paper - for example;

  Wrapping paper, old paintings, wall paper samples, old maps or books/catalogues. (You may love or hate collage….so no need to bring loads of collage paper, Áine will have some to share)

• Stencils (completely optional- Áine will have some to borrow, hers are mostly leaves and flowers)

  Other Supplies

• A tear off palette for acrylic (freezer paper taped to cardboard backing is a cheap and effective alternative, it comes in rolls)

• Rags, masking tape and a set of these flat craft brushes from Royal and Langnickel

• You may have plenty of brushes for acrylic, feel free to use your own. Here are the two sets that Áine uses - 

  Royal & Langnickel 12 longhandled Brush Value Pack. This is available from this on-line shop:
  www.localartshop.co.uk/royal-langnickel-12-long-handle-brush-set-firm- burgundy-taklon-watercolour-acrylic-temera-set-14.html

• Royal and Langnickel large area flat brushes set-
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Langnickel-Golden-Taklon-Synthetic/dp/B0018MD60