Beyond the Basics (painting Venice)
We start with coffee at 9.45 am and a short introduction to the day and each other.
It's a great way of learning how to transfer the image onto the pape. Its a sumbling block for many painters. I've made a large model of part of the wonderful city of Venice, so you can select your position, perhaps high up looking down on the canel from a villa? Maybe you prefer your chosen picture from sitting on the canal side looking towards a bridge leading onto a piazza? What about at water level looking up at the buildings?
Instead of being held back from dramatic painting because its to daunting to tackle what seems to be difficult you will have drawn it and be ready for painting in the afternoon.
We stop for a buffet lunch halfway through the day, an informal time for discussion and chat, eaten either in the garden in the better weather or in the dining room.
After lunch we light the scene and perhaps introduce a storytelling element into the painting. Depending on your technique and speed of painting it's possible there will still be work you still want to do on your painting at the end of the day. To enable you to continue I photograph each of your views and print off photo to take with you.
We’ll explore composition, what should be excluded, changed, moved, altered to make the painting work. We cover slightly more advanced use of colour, developing on the basic washes, building up colours by overlaying a number of washes without disturbing the previous washes, giving colours that wouldn’t be possible with a single wash.
Using mediums, one to help you keep already painted areas safe, another to help the paint spread across the paper. Some of the tricks and tips that make interesting effects and improve your control over how you control the development of your painting.
Selecting the range of colours for a particular type of result. The use of colour combinations that help the painting come together. As we go we’ll look at how some of the masters of watercolours achieved their results.
I only work with very small numbers of painters at one time, no more than 6, often 4, so everyone gains as much as possible in the time we have together.
An all inclusive day for one person £65
Prices include all painting materials, the buffet lunch, teas and coffees, and cake.
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