2 day Abstract Painting course

with Emma Burnett - £270

 

 

2020 Course dates

Saturday and Sunday  -  August 22nd and 23rd Full

 

Thursday and Friday  -  October 1st and 2nd

 

 

For general course dates please click here for diary page

The course includes coffee and home made cake, lunch

and wine.

Meet at 9.30am for coffee ready for a 10am start.  

The day finishes at 4.30pm.

 

The aim of the course

The aim of this course is to cover many aspects of painting abstracts in order to give you knowledge, inspiration and techniques to help you to create your own work.  Playing with paint, experimenting and learning how to create effects are more important than going home with a finished canvas.

 

I like to encourage you to develop your own style rather than follow a prescriptive style.  We will work in sketchbooks to build up a resource of styles and ideas.

 

It is intended to be fun and to experiment and to learn rather than to produce a perfect, considered picture.  Anything that remains unfinished you will be able to continue at home.  

 

What is covered

Theory and discussion and inspiration

 

Look at abstract artists

 

Discuss the working qualities of different paints

 

Discuss paper, board and canvas and how it affects the painting techniques and drying times

 

The difference in drying times between oils and acrylics

 

How to keep acrylics damp to extend the time in which you can use them.

 

Many aspects of Colour

 

Incorporating a colour in several subtle and obvious places throughout the picture

 

Subtle differences of tone and colour to add interest; Bonnard’s 7 colours

Layering colours

Depth and distance

The zing effect

Small subtle bits of colour to introduce zing colour.

 

Keeping tonal values consistent or inconsistent

 

Mixing colours

 

How to prime a board with oil or acrylic primer

 

Underpainting and layering

 

Use of texture mediums

 

Block in shapes

 

Uplifting shapes.  The effect of heavy colours at the bottom or top

 

Paint techniques;

Brush strokes - Dry brush -

Blending -both wet and dry

Knife effects

Rag wiping (Rose Hilton)

Creating dots with flat knife.