Paint makers Rebecca Wallace & Pip Seymour (www.wallaceseymour.co.uk)
will be holding a Workshop on Colours for Painting at Leighton Hall, Carnforth,
Lancashire in Spring 2021. Actual dates to be announced. Places will be limited to a maximum of 15. Tickets £ 30.00. The workshop comprises a technical discussion on historic
paint technique, looking at paintings in the Leighton hall collection, followed
by a practical workshop looking at sources for colour and application of paint
in different paint media. Early booking is required. We will update confirmed
bookings with the date for the workshop, dependent on Covid conditions in
Spring 2021. To register your interest, please email to info@wallaceseymour.co.uk
Schedule 10am
Arrival. Tea/Coffee on reception. 10.30am-
12noon – tour of Leighton hall, looking at paintings made on canvas, wood
panel, paper. We
will look especially at the construction of painting supports, priming grounds,
paint media used and choice of colours according period availability of
pigments. Includes notable 17/18C French, Flemish, Italian oil paintings, early
Twentieth Century Gouache portraits and formal Oil Portraits by war artist
Edward Seago from the 1940s/50s. 12.30
– 1.15pm Lunch – Soup/sandwiches. 1.15pm
-3pm – Technical
Workshop in the Music Room. Discussion
of painting grounds: wood, canvas, paper. Supports for painting and support
preparation/painting grounds. Choice
of media: oil, gouache, watercolour. Properties of different binding media and
application according to the different painting ‘schools’ represented in the
Leighton hall Collection. Choice
of colour used in painting: pigments from the earth, mineral, plants, metals. We
will prepare pigment from raw material dug from the ‘Paint Mines’ on Leighton
hall estate: the famous old colour Warton Red Ochre, formerly used in artist
and industrial colours, a deep red-marron red ochre, rich in natural iron
oxide. Examples of oil, watercolour and gouache paint will be made from the
resultant pigment. Please
bring a sketch book/pad to make colour notes.
