We will be using flat brushes, a smooth board, water-mixable oils and only three colours to explore the potential of a limited palette. This approach not only helps you improve your painting by forcing you to think about colour and how you mix it, it also creates a harmony in your work with paintings feeling balanced and harmonious, with all the colours naturally relating to one another. Hopefully, you will be inspired by your results to try this limited palette approach in your own work.

You will be working from life. Your subject will be an apple (interesting subject when cut in half) or other piece of fruit or vegetable that inspires you. Your painting will fill the smooth gesso board provided.

What to bring:

• A red skinned apple or other fruit or vegetable.
• A few flat synthetic brushes (eg 0, 2, 4), not bristle brushes.
• A palette knife.
• A paper palette and a box to take your work home in.
• A roll of paper towel.
• A jar for water.
• Table covering (e.g. newspaper).

The following will be provided:

• 8″ x 10″ canvas covered board.
• Water-mixable oils.