These workshop days will work as a mini ‘Plein Air’ Landscape Course which covers key aspects of how to paint successful landscapes using any medium. Suitable for beginners and skilled artists alike, it is designed for those wanting to learn and improve their general drawing and painting skills and get really immersed in the landscape. We will also be covering more complex ideas such as notans for composition, colour groupings and the 80/20 rule. There will demonstrations and advise on some quirky techniques and, as usual, I'm very happy for you to paint step-by-step with me or go completely off-piste and enjoy being outdoors, amongst fellow artists with as much input and advice as you need.
DATES: TBA for the summer in 2025. Please contact Kate to find out more.
COST: £285 for a 3-day course or £98 per day includes homemade cake plus tea & coffee but please bring your own lunch if the plan isn’t to lunch out at a café somewhere...
Landscape Day Outline
Each day includes a short amble depending on where we meet (and weather permitting), a teaching session with painting demo, notes on the key lesson of the day and time painting in or outdoors. We may have lunch and afternoon tea at a local café or at the village hall and Kate is available for personal tuition throughout the day with a discussion at the end. Come with a sense of a summer adventure!
Materials List
You will need to bring your favoured drawing/painting art materials (please see material lists on other course pages on this website for extra ideas). I recommend A4-size paper or canvas boards for ease of transportation; a few artist quality paints*; a light board and easel; a Staywet palette for acrylics; a wooden or tear-off palette for oils; a plate or plastic palette for watercolours; a small selection of appropriate brushes (rounds, a rigger, a wide flat for washes, fan brush**); palette knives for oils and acrylics; small pots for water and/or Zest-it thinner; HB or 2B pencils; eraser; kitchen towel; apron; baby wipes; a camera or paper ‘viewfinder’ for getting inspiration. Please wear old clothes and walking shoes, bring layers, sunscreen and shades (ever the optimist)… pack some waterproofs too! We may have the use of chairs or benches but you may also wish to bring a portable chair of your own.
Photos at Sullington in 2023
** For brushes I particularly recommend Rosemary & Co's Shiraz, Ivory and Red Dot ranges. Please ask to see the catalogue and the brushes I use as they are all great quality at reasonable prices and they last! There is a basic set of acrylic brushes that Rosemary & Co. put together for me. Please enquire if you would like a set before the course starts so I can order them in.
* When buying paints it is always prudent to buy from quality manufacturers as cheap, student or academy quality paints can put you off the medium before you have even started. I would recommend buying professional or artist’s quality tubes from: Winsor & Newton, Daler Rowney (Cryla or System 3 are good for acrylics), Sennelier, Golden or Liquitex. You will only need a small range of colours and they can include a warm and cool version of each of the three primaries ie. Cadmium Red, Crimson Red, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, plus Titanium White. You may also wish to add in some pre-mixed colours like Sap Green or Hookers Green, as we’re painting landscapes, and some of the earth colours like Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna or Burnt Sienna but working with a limited palette of just three primary colours plus white with be just as effective (and a lot lighter!).
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