Cost: $350AUD (by bank transfer)
Miniature: Supplied by Adrah Labs
Class Capacity: 15 seats available
Formerly known as “Beginners: Learn to Paint Display” this is the classic 2-day class that is open to a wide range of skill levels from people who’ve never painted before to people who want to go from tabletop quality to more refined display.

Topics include:

• Cleaning and Priming your model

• What you want in your brushes and how to find affordable, high quality brushes in Australia.

• Applying basecoats

• Basics of color mixing for shading and highlighting

• Painting Skin, Faces and Eyes

• Painting Hair and Fur

• Painting Leather and Cloth

• Painting Metallics

What you need to bring on the day:
Supply Recommendations:
You can create your own Wet Palette by following the instructions here
A Hair Dryer for drying paint quickly
Scalpel/Hobby Knife
Emory Board (Nail file)

Brushes need to be Kolinsky Sable or Red Sable Hair Pointed Round Watercolor brushes. Brands I recommend from most expensive to least expensive are:
Winsor & Newton Series 7 (not the Miniature Series 7s) in sizes 1, 2 and 3
Raphael 8404 Series in Sizes 1, 2 and 3
Rosemary & Co Series 22 or series 33 in sizes 1, 2 and 3
310K Rehab Kolinsky Sable Pointed Rounds in sizes 2, 3, 4

A lamp with White LED or Daylight Fluorescent tubes. Incandescent bulbs can be too yellow to paint under.

I recommend the Scale 75 Artist Acrylics (the toothpaste tubes) in the following colors for a fairly complete kit:
SART01 Art White
SART19 Intense Yellow
SART04 Primary Yellow
SART23 Magenta
SART25 Dark Violet
SART20 Yellow Ochre
SART06 Burnt Sienna
SART03 Primary Blue
SART26 Turquoise Blue
SART30 Prussian Blue
SART02 Art Black

Metallics I recommend P3 Blighted Gold, P3 Cold Steel or Vallejo Silver, Vallejo Green-Gold.