What shall I bring for painting or
drawing lesson?
Participants bring their own art
materials for painting and drawing
lesson.
For acrylic painting, your need stretched
canvas or canvas panel, pencil,
watercolour pencil or charcoal stick,
some brushes, a box of acrylic paints,
painting knifes, mediums, tear-off
palette, and paper towel. Please bring
along your reference materials, sketches
or drawings (if you have), digital images
for reference or for discussion when
needed.
For drawing session, you need to bring
pencils, kneaded rubber, eraser,
sharpener, drawing block (A3 size) or
sketching book.
It is fine if you do not have any of them
on your first lesson, you can use and
buy whatever that is available at the
studio and then you go to buy your own
materials after the first lesson.
What kind of paint should I use for
painting?
The common types of paint people used
are watercolours, oil and acrylic. You can
start with acrylic paints as acrylic is a
versatile medium that is also very
forgiving. it dries quickly than oil and
you can achieve oil painting and
watercolours painting effects with acrylic
if you wish. Acrylic can be used on any
surface, you can paint on paper, canvas
or board.
What brand of paint should I buy?
All depends on your budget. They are
students quality paints to professional
quality paints available in the market.
You can make a search in internet or pay
a visit to the art shops and obtain what
you need in Singapore. For beginners,
you can buy a box of 10 to 12 tubes of
colours, a starter set with two of each
primary colours and a few other colours.
Shall I buy paper or canvas?
For watercolour painting, you buy
watercolour paper. For acrylic painting,
you buy canvas, canvas board, canvas
panel or canvas pad. You can draw and
paint on any common drawing paper as
well. If you wish, I can teach you how to
prepare for your painting surface during
art lessons.
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courses, click here.
DRAWING AND PAINTING
LESSONS
Commonly Asked
Questions
Do I need to learn drawing before
painting?
Traditionally, if you wish to be trained as
an artist, you may spend sometimes to
draw before you paint. You practise
drawing and master perspective,
proportion, tones and many more
before you deal with colours. However,
for those who just like to have fun with
colours and painting, it is fine to jump
straight into painting and do what you
can and gradually learn drawing
whenever it is needed. We have painting
workshop for people who just like to
discover the joy of art making.
I have not done any drawing and
painting before, but I wish to learn,
can I join your art class?
The purpose of these art classes and
lessons is to help you start learning and
practising sketching/drawing and
painting. We have Basic
Sketching/Drawing and Acrylic Painting
lessons for Beginner as well as Painting
for improver and Painting with the Artist
sessions.
I am a senior citizen and I have not
learned painting before, can I join
your art class?
Yes, anyone interested to discover the
joy of drawing and painting can join the
art sessions. Below is a chart of
participants age range (from 7 to 86)
coming to my ongoing art sessions for
your reference.