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Spend a weekend getting lost in landscape painting. Discover and develop practical techniques in representing the landscape using oil paint and learn how to transform your painting from a snapshot view to a confident expression of a landscape.
The course runs from Saturday 10am – 5pm and Sunday 9am – 4pm when you will discover how to paint a landscape in oil paint. You will look at tone, using charcoal and oil paint to explore tonal relationships. You will also look in detail at colour mixing in order to recreate the colours that you perceive in the landscape in oil paint. This veracity to light and colour will enable you to free yourself with mark-making. You will explore how the physical application of paint can enhance your work, lending expression and the suggestion of non-visual elements to an oil painting. You will look at the work of other painters to inspire and gain insight into different techniques, as well as to understand the breadth of possible approaches to landscape painting. You will also look briefly at how artists collect source material, sketching and exploring the landscape through direct observation.
Everyone will have their own way of working, goals and questions. Your tutor will work with your unique needs and aims to help develop your individual practice.
By the end of the course, you will be able to make decisions on how to compress the natural spectrum of a landscape view into one which can be described by paint, to convincingly recreate a tonal piece. You will be able to use these decisions to aid you in your observation and processing of colour, mixing colours which more closely resemble those of the natural world. You will be able to call upon a range of marks to lend expression and movement to your subsequent paintings, adding more dimension, feeling and artistic licence to a work, elevating it from a snapshot view to a representation of an experience of a landscape.
Timetable for 2 day, short weekend courses
Saturday, session one: 10am-1pm & 2-5pm. Please arrive by 9.45am.
Sunday, session two: 9am-1pm & 2-4pm.
Lunch and tea/coffee is included.
Hester Berry has made a living as a painter since leaving school, exhibiting throughout the UK and occasionally internationally. She gained a degree in Fine Art from University of Wales Aberystwyth and an MA in painting from UAL Wimbledon. She has taught painting and drawing for various societies and institutions including for Draw Brighton and Camden Arts Centre. In 2018 Tate published her book on Life Drawing.
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