Expand Your Vision as a Painter (Five Mondays)

About this event

This course is for oil painters with some experience who want to develop their own individual painting projects, with expert tutor guidance. Finding a theme – whether this be from film stills, your own photographs and drawings, or other source material, or setting up an observational project . Developing – your use of colour, composition, tone and paint application. Focusing on differing approaches – to observational and imaginative work, (using other artists as examples),figurative or abstract, whilst developing skills in how to organise a palette, mix colours and apply paint. I will give you some trigger words for your ‘Theme’ a month before the course starts if requested. One day will be spent on an exercise exploring tone and colour. For those wanting a more project/exercises based course, projects can be tailored to the students individual needs. Drawing materials and some paper will be available but students can bring their own pencils, charcoal, rubbers, inks, pens, tracing paper etc. Students will provide their own paints, brushes and canvases/hardboard, or paper. If using oil, an odour free solvent and tear off disposable palettes will be required. Kitchen roll or cotton rags for painters in any medium as well. Students can email the tutor ideas (images, themes etc) they might be considering working with, at least 2 weeks before class starts. NB images sent must be at least 1MB so the tutor can advise on suitability etc.