summer term week 3
Date: May 5th and 6th
Tutor: Rob
Tutor led Step by Step Painting
what to bring
Bring your normal painting equipment; paints, brushes, pencil, sketching paper and watercolour paper. Make certain the watercolour paper is no less than A4 in size, slightly larger wouldn’t be a bad thing. Rob will be demonstrating on a stretched piece of paper, you are welcome to stretch a piece if you want to but it not strictly necessary. For those that don’t know about stretching g paper Rob will explain.
THIS Week:
This week Rob will be painting a step by step of the River Avon at Aveton Gifford. Blue sky, distant trees, boats and reflections in puddles.
This is the is the image that Rob will be working from.
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.
‘homework’ challenge
Now the weather is improving and the evenings are staying lighter for longer….get out and draw!
Quote of the week
‘Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.’
Rembrandt
CHECK OUT this demo…
There is a page on this website with links to articles we have written for the Artists and Illustrators magazine. Each week we will add a link here to direct you directly to one of the demonstration articles. The links will take you to the Artists and illustrators website . The articles we choose can be viewed on the site without you having to sunscribe to their site or the magazine. (You can ignore the pop boxes offering you a subscription). On their website you will find many other demonstrations by other artists. Please share any you find particularly useful, fun or interesting.
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Tomatoes and Basil. Siân Dudley. Watercolour
CLASS NOTICEBOARD : Any new items to be added? Please email details and they will be added by the following class.