Exhibition
HUE: Colour as Object. Colour as Material. Colour as Memory.
01 Feb 2015 – 28 Feb 2015
Arts at the Old Fire Station
Oxford, United Kingdom
Talk
Making Colour: Demonstration and Talk
28 Feb 2015
Event times
6.30 - 8.00pm
Cost of entry
£6, £4. Book at www.ticketsoxford.com or 01865 305305.
Address
- 40 George Street
- Oxford
- OX1 2AQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Located immediately around the corner from Gloucester Green, Oxford's main bus and coach station
- 7 minutes walk from Oxford Train Station
Event map
Lecturer and artist James Heard, who presented this popular demonstration recently at the National Gallery, demonstrates the techniques of egg tempera, gilding and oil painting with examples from the old masters.
About
Since the invention of the paint tube in 1841 artists have lost contact with the most basic materials of their craft. In the past painters ground their own colours on a slab, mixing either egg yolk or linseed oil with pigments.
But what are pigments? Reds came from cochineal beetles, blues from minerals such as the precious lapis lazuli and yellows from plants or coloured earths. Lecturer and artist James Heard, who presented this popular demonstration recently at the National Gallery, demonstrates the techniques of egg tempera, gilding and oil painting with examples from the old masters.
There will be plenty of time for questions.
http://www.oldfirestation.org.uk/event/making-colour-demonstration-and-talk/
