Autumn term week 1
Date: 29th and 30th Spetember
Tutor: Rob and Siân
Free Painting
what to bring
Enthusiasm for a new term! Oh, and your usual painting materials.
THIS Week:
Introduction to the theme for this term, and discussing your plans for your own projects.
This term we are looking at the theme “How did they Do THAT?”
The object of the theme is to improve your understanding of the techniques used by established artists. Through coping you are actively observing how they made their work. This makes you study a painting in much greater detail than simply (passively) looking at it! the physical act of making a copy means you are linking eye and hand, which leads to a greater understanding of how the artist worked.
By coping you will discover techniques you can apply to your own work; which you enjoy and which you want to avoid!
It will also give you an insight into an artist’s ‘style’, so that you will be able to recognise who created a painting that you like, much in the way you recognise someone’s handwriting. It will also lead to you being able to make connections between artists which use similar techniques, how they use them differently and how they use them in the same way.
Please could you take a few moments this week to check that we have the correct contact information for you. It is useful that we have telephone number as well as an email address in case of last minute issues.
Please also make sure you are on the class WhatsApp group, as this may be the quickest way to let you know of last minute cancellations or changes.
‘homework’ challenge
Study this image closely
Copy this image as accurately as possible.
Consider what you feel you might learn from this image. Consider tone, mark-making (texture) and colour. Which would be most useful to you to help you improve your skill set. You may choose to focus on just one of these, or all of them. You may use any medium. The objective is to study the image in great detail though copying.
Take care to pay particular attention to:
Tone. If you are making an accurate tonal study are you going to choose pencil or paint?
The marks used. How was the paint laid paid down? Which brush, hand movements etc..
Layers. have layers been used. Which went down first? Which marks were added on top of previous marks.
If using colour, can you match the colours you are seeing accurately?
Can you tell if colours were mixed in the palette or wet-in-wet on the page?
© Julie Collins. This image features in her book ‘Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolour, page 119.
CLASS NOTICEBOARD : Any new items to be added? Please email details and they will be added by the following class.