6 Day (WEEKEND) Course outline.

.One of a few courses that can be adapted to suit the students time scale and skills development..Each module can be booked either singularly or as a tiered development cluster.
Future courses will be posted here also :-)

Graining Course ( Intensive 5 day Oak Graining)

SWRDECArt Studio's welcomed a student from Elgin in Scotland for a intensive 5 day course in the
practical application & traditional methodologies of Oak graining culminating in the completion of a 4 panelled door in a high standard!

This course suits all levels as the methods that are used adapts to suit the students needs at the early stages of style development, helping with the progression of the students skills & knowledge of the subject.

Starting with mixing up glazes & grounds, in both oil & water, to practicing with the correct tools to get the desired shapes & structure of each stage in both mediums, this process allows the student, with my support and guidance, to get a feel for application and to confidently iron out mistakes & fine tune hand skills. a process that is enhanced by this individual, student led approach.

This student led approach, is central to the students individual development and is core to their daily  "learning curve" of the what, why, when & how of this methodology.
After this intensive guided practice, the student is more confident and ready to "tackle" graining a door to a high standard, whilst still under tutorial guidance and support.
My style of teaching is to bring the student through each and every stage of this process, to show common mistakes made, to give advice on how to fix or avoid these, and to do so in a collaborative manor, on the journey towards achieving a  fully beautifully Oak grained door.

After completing the course the student is armed with both practical, and academic knowledge, the skills to apply and amend mediums and the skills needed to achieve quality Oak graining in both oils and water leaving them with a sense of professional confidence and competence.

 Practicing in oils & acrylics,
 shapes & structure, getting familiar with the tools & materials.







The student will draw from & use this training to start & complete a door, under my guidance.

Students finished door, well done!

 

 

                                                   On the completion of course a certificate is awarded      

                                              


                                                            Here's my finished door from the course

 

Traditional Sign writing & Graining continued

Heres a few images of the graining with lettering that I had left to do from my last post! 
Followed by a little walk through from start to finish of another sign completed in the same theme.

All done Usiing Acrylic paints & varnish for exterior other then the lettering where enamels were used.
Materials used:
Johnstone's exterior wood primer & Acrylic Satin base coat.
Proceed glazes for the graining.
Polyvine waterbased exterior satin varnish.
One Shot lettering enamels.

               This next one had to have the old panel removed & replaced with with a marine ply

                                                                        3 coats of primer

 

With the base coat dry I then go like this.......

                            

                                                                            This :-)

                                                                 .......   And this.......

                                                                  ........and this.......

                                                          Then flip it over & go like this.....

 
  I  gave both sides seven coats of Polyvine exterior Varnish & painted in the grooves of each plank with a   lining brush & straight edge

                                                              Now for the Lettering

                                                                (pics of both sides)

      The metal work then got primed where needed & given the required coats of  a black satin finish.

Fin