Art Practical: Painting & Drawing the Land
Course overview
Course description
How do we get started? Being out in the landscape is inspirational but can be overwhelming when finding a starting point for our painting. Over the day, we will explore connecting with the land, observational exercises and drawing. Expressing elements through sketching.
We will develop a process for colour mixing to create a palette for capturing light, expressing emotions and creating depth.
The latter half of the day we will work to create a painting. What makes a good composition? We will use the visual resources gathered over the morning and with tutorial support develop this to create a landscape painting.
The day will be about enjoying being creative. There will be lots of experimenting and no pressure to have a finished piece of work at the end of the day. The idea is to explore and develop our creative process and have a way of approaching landscape work with more confidence. The course is about learning whilst enjoying both the landscape and painting, whilst developing our skills.
The emphasis is on approaches and developing our own styles and ways of working. This course is not about techniques and knowledge of the basic colour wheel would help. It would be an advantage to have some prior painting experience, but not essential, and any media you like to work in, or would like to use over the day.
We will share our work with the group at the end of the day. There will be opportunity for 1 to 1 tutorial time with your tutor.
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