SATURDAYS
Weekly class 10am-12noon
£17 each class
A regular, daytime opportunity to learn how to make observation drawings,
prints and paintings from the figure in a wide range of traditional and
experimental media. Feel free to work individually or try new techniques with
practical demonstrations. Overlooking the river and the inspiring setting of Folly
Bridge, work in a friendly atmosphere with classical music and real coffee.
SUNDAY 18 JULY
11-4pm
£50
Learn the delicate layered watercolour and resist techniques of the Yorkshire landscape Royal Academission. Working from photographs and sketches made of the Evenlode valley landscape. (You will need to bring A3 watercolour paper)
FRIDAY 30 JULY
10-4pm
£50
In an expressive mixed media figure drawing class looking at the drawings of Anthony Gormley, learn how to use ink with oils, acrylics with varnish (as in the drawing left), watercolour with tea, and bitumen with wax to create strange and exciting alternative interpretations of the figure.
(You will need to bring A3 cartridge paper)
TUESDAY 27 JULY
7-9pm
£17
Working from observation studies of trees made outside in nearby Christchurch Meadow, learn about Nicholson’s techniques of overlaying linear pencil over a subtle dry brushed background of oil paint. (You will need to bring A3 cartridge paper)
SUNDAY 8 AUG
11-4pm
£50
Morandi used the arrangement of shapes and delicate tonal balance in his paintings as a symbolic vehicle to suggest specific moods and feelings. In this workshop learn about ‘negative space’ within the composition of a landscape, and how to apply delicate and even washes of watercolour.
(You will need to bring textured A4 watercolour paper)
TUESDAYS 10 & 17 AUG
7-9pm
£17 each class
Learn about the painting techniques of German expressionist Emile Nolde, and how the use of vibrant complimentary colour can create dramatic atmosphere when depicting cloud formations. Bring a photo of a sunset skyscape as a subject. (You will need to bring textured A3 watercolour paper)
WEDNESDAY 11 AUG
7-9pm
£17
Looking at the work of the Royal Academission Tony Bevan, explore how to create linear interpretations of the figure with a ‘continuous charcoal line’ (never leaving the surface of the canvas) then over working with painted red acrylic.
(All materials provided)
WEDNESDAY 18 AUG TUESDAY 24 AUG
7-9pm
£20
Learn about the influence of the ‘Fauves’ on the Cornish abstract artist Heron, and how he creates beautiful colour interplay with layered brush strokes in his abstract garden studies. Bring in a favourite photo of your garden, and interpret in oils on a small stretched canvas.
(one stretched canvas and all materials provided)
TUESDAY 31 AUG
7-9pm
£20
Working with very large brushes and sponges on A1 paper, this workshop focuses on how the Italian modernist’s drawings were influenced by African art. (All materials provided)
FRIDAY 10 SEPT
10-4pm
£50
Working on board prepared with sanded gesso (white primer made with chalk to create a translucent gleaming quality), use the end of a brush to define the forms by making scratched linear marks through thinly painted oil. (All materials provided)