Courses

MODULE 1 – Colour and mixes -basic equipment – colour, brushes, paper, grey scale, mark making, colour wheel, basic colour mixing

MODULE 2 – Washes and water to pigment ratios – flat, graded & variegated wash, aerial perspective, colour unity & limited palette

MODULE 3 – Clouds and skies – hard & soft edges, lifting out, how to paint atmospheric skies, complementary colours and avoiding mud

MODULE 4 – Creating form (3D) – types of light & shadow, basic shapes

MODULE 5 – Creating resistance & lets paint – ways to preserve light,common mistakes and avoidance, negative painting, paint a daisy

MODULE 6 – Composition – make a view finder, eye flow, measuring by eye,simple tonal sketching, focal points, compositional guidelines Bonus – drawing aids handout

MODULE 7 – perspective – viewpoint, horizon line, vanishing point, 1,2 & 3 point perspective

MODULE 8 – people, proportion and scale – adding people to painting for scale, simplifying shapes, human proportions

MODULE 9 – bringing it altogether – lets paint your own picture planning, mixing colour, sketches, preparing for paint, fear of the white page, where to start – background and middle distances of your own

MODULE 10 – Finish your painting – mid distance foreground & detail. Layering, glazing, correcting mistakes, stepping back, mounting and framing Bonus – little gems of wisdom