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The Tantalus Project presents:
‘TANTALISE’
at LONGHORNS BAR & GRILL
Eastfield Place, Little Church Street
Rugby CV21 3AT Tel: 01788 570070
ongoing exhibition, updated Feb 2008.
Some of our members are exhibiting.
RDAS charcoal demo by Ali Yanya
Used three grades charcoal – ordinary willow charcoal first, then rubbed into tooth of paper with rag, (watercolour paper?) then cheap charcoal (?) then compressed charcoal. Then lifted out lights, using firstly blutack, then putty rubber then, if necessary, ordinary rubber too.
Had examples of paintings too – lovely granulating watercolours.
Following the very successful Linocut demonstration Kevin Holdaway has supplied the following useful information:
Linoleum (ask for price on 3.2mm thick brown linoleum as that is what
I use)
W.BLACKBURN & SON
103A HIGH STREET
SYSTON
LEICESTERSHIRE
LE7 1GQ
TEL: 0116 2603222
Paper Supplier (ask for a catalogue which they will gladly supply)
R.K.BURT
57 UNION STREET
LONDON
SE1 1SG
TEL: 020 7407 6474
Website www.rkburt.co.uk
Ink supplier that I use (the inks I use are foilex inks and mainly
the process colours but they can mix up any pantone colour that you
would like I am sure)
ARETS GRAPHICS
25 OSWIN ROAD
BRAILSFORD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
LEICESTER
LE3 1HR
TEL: 0116 2331221
NB: we may be able to arrange a workshop in the autumn if enough
members are interested.
Following the talk by cartoonist Dave Simonds:
The indian ink he recommended is Ocaldo Ink obtainable from Calder Colours of Ashby de la Zouch (caldercolours.co.uk) and the indian ink pens are PITT artist pens made by Faber-Castell - if not available locally they are stocked by Spectrum Fine Art & Graphic Materials, Fletchers Walk, Birmingham.