Day Workshops
Expressive Still Live
In this next sequence of workshops, we shall explore how we see light falling onto objects and make sense of three dimensions, surface texture and space around us. Many artists throughout history have used the subject matter of still life to explore life, light, colour and even death. Beginning with drawing, composition and colour planning you will use a wide variety of methods and mediums to make expressive still life, atmospheric images.
The last two weeks of this course it’s over to you. You will plan and develop your own expressive artwork in the medium of your choice.
WEEK 1 - FLOWERS BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM!
Thursday 2nd November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 3rd November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Let’s recapture the energy and colour of flowers in a range of media, optimising colour contrast and composition! We shall look at artists who depicted flowers in new and exciting ways and plan and make our own colour rich flowers still life.
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook
Mixed materials – wide range of paints, drawing materials, ink pens etc.
Paints and painting paper
Masking Tape
WEEK 2 - STILL LIFE WITH A DIFFERENCE
Thursday 16th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 17th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Autumn is a wonderful season of fruitfulness with warm rich colours and glowing lights, tempered by rich shadows and crackling fires. In this workshop we shall explore heat and cold, light and dark, frost and rich sunshine; autumn is the season of heightened contrasts. We shall utilise changes in colour and texture to make works full of wonderful contrasts.
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook
Mixed drawing and painting materials
Painting paper
Autumn leaves and fruits
WEEK 3 - AUTUMN FRUITS
Thursday 16th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 17th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Autumn is a wonderful season of fruitfulness with warm rich colours and glowing lights, tempered by rich shadows and crackling fires. In this workshop we shall explore heat and cold, light and dark, frost and rich sunshine; autumn is the season of heightened contrasts. We shall utilise changes in colour and texture to make works full of wonderful contrasts.
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook
Mixed drawing and painting materials
Painting paper
Autumn leaves and fruits
WEEK 4 - AUTUMN LANDSCAPES
Thursday 23rd November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 24th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Autumn is a wonderful season of fruitfulness with warm rich colours and glowing lights, tempered by rich shadows and crackling fires. In this workshop we shall explore heat and cold, light, and dark, frost and rich sunshine; autumn is the season of heightened contrasts. We shall utilise changes in colour and texture to make works full of wonderful contrasts.
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook
Mixed drawing and painting materials
Painting paper
Autumn leaves and fruits
WEEK 5 - IT’S NOW OVER TO YOU!
Thursday 30th November 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 1st December 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
After many months of different materials and subject matter you will plan and make your own expressive artwork or artworks in the medium of choice. You have two sessions to do this, so that you will collate and arrange references, materials and make sketches to develop a meaningful expressive work of any subject matter.
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook and drawing materials.
Materials of your choice
WEEK 6 - IT’S NOW OVER TO YOU - CONCLUSION
Thursday 7th December 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
Friday 8th December 2023, 10.30am – 3pm
This session is for you to complete your own project – after a term of expressionist art you will be enjoying new processes and thinking about when artworks are actually finished – you will present your work to the class and celebrate all that you have achieved!
Materials:
A3 hard backed sketchbook and drawing materials.
Materials of your choice