Evan Woodruffe – Brush up on Painting Techniques: glazing, scumbling, and controlling pictorial space
From rich glazes, through transitional passages of scumbling, to solid areas of flat or modulated hues, the competent layering of translucent and opaque colours is necessary for building depth and brilliance in your painting.
In this three hour workshop, you will learn how to develop complex colour layers from traditional glazing and scumbling techniques. More modern opaque layering techniques, and translucent colour mixtures will also be explored.
These techniques are applicable to both oil and acrylic colours, and we will be working in acrylics due to the time constraints of this workshop.
Biography
Evan Woodruffe is an artist based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, and exhibits throughout the Asia-Pacific region, with work in significant collections in Singapore, Australia, China, the USA, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Writer Lucinda Bennett referred to his works as Wet Maps, “living, breathing ecosystems, and visualisations of a new kind of urbanism”.
Evan has MFA (1st Class) from Elam, and is a long-standing supporter of the visual arts, not only as an artist, but as a collector, sponsor, teacher, and advocator. He runs Akepiro Street Studios, home to a dozen artists since 2008, is Global Brand Ambassador for both Schmincke Artist Colours and da Vinci Artist Brushes, Germany, and is a regular contributor to ANZAAE events.
Recent exhibitions include his solo presentation at Sydney Contemporary (2024), Hastings City Art Gallery (2023), and the 2023 Chengdu Biennale, China. Evan is represented by Paul Nache Gallery.