This workshop is hosted by Art Academy in Doha, Qatar.

To register or for more information, dial number 0097460090097 or email info@artacademyint.org

[Expressive Portrait Drawing]

in CHARCOAL

• 23 Tue, 5-9pm
• 24 Wed, 5-9pm
• 26 Fri, 10am-6pm

[Expressive Portrait Painting]

in OIL

• 25 Thur, 5-9pm
• 27 Say, 10am-6pm
• 28 Sun, 5-9pm

[Charcoal drawing material]

Drawing Pad: Strathmore, 300 or 400 series, 14x17 inch or larger, medium surface. Link

• If you don't find the Strathmore ‘drawing' pad, any brand of 'Charcoal' pad is fine.
• No 'New Sprint', 'Bristol' or 'Smooth surface', They don't work well with charcoal sticks.

Willow Charcoal: 1 thick and 1 thin stick. (General, Cortes, Winsor Newton, or any brand)

Charcoal Pencil: 'General' charcoal pencil (HB or 2H). Link. If you don't find a 'General' brand, just bring a vine charcoal (hard or medium) stick. Or no pencil is fine.

Kneaded eraser: link

(Optional) Blending stump: link

(Optional) Utility Knife: for sharpening a pencil.

(Optional) Sandpaper: link. for sharpening pencil and vine charcoal sticks.

(Optional) Drawing board: any wooden, plastic, or thick paper board for backing the drawing pad.

(Optional) Workable Fixative: to preserve your drawing for your portfolio.

(Optional) Portable easel. (No easel is fine, too. You can put a drawing pad on the table.)

[Oil Painting materials]

• Oil Paint: Any brand.

Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow

Cadmium Red

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Pthalo Green (or Viridian)

Burnt Umber           Ivory Black

• Canvas paper pad or Stretched canvas (11x14 inch or larger, smooth surface is better).
• Brushes: Various size of flat (either natural or synthetic hair of any brand is fine but must have good shape of hair). Zin mostly uses low price/synthetic flat brushes.
• Palette Knife: Sharp.
• Palette: Palette Pad or any wooden/plastic/glass palette.
• Medium: Pure, Odorless 'Linseed oil’, ‘sunflower oil’, or 'safflower oil' (similar smell and texture to normal home cooking oil) in a jar. No fast-dry medium, such as; Liquin or Galkid. (At the workshop, Zin will use Sunflower oil + odorless mineral spirit).
• Paper towel or rag: To wipe the oil with a brush. (Zin uses cut drop cloth)
• Plastic bag: To put oiled paper in.
• Large paper or plastic sheet: To prevent paint drops on the table or floor.
• Easel (optional): Portable. Wooden French easel or Light aluminum frame, Stand, or table-top easel. No easel? No problem. Just put a canvas on the table.

*For our healthy study experience, please don't use fast-drying mediums, or smelly or toxic mediums, such as Liquin, galkid, etc. But use an odorless/no-smelly medium only.

This workshop is hosted by Art Academy in Doha, Qatar.

To register or for more information, dial number 0097460090097 or email info@artacademyint.org