TYPICAL PROGRAMME
SATURDAY (All times are approximate)
Arrive 9.30-9.45am Get together in our upstairs lounge, meet your fellow artists. Have a cup of tea or coffee, or water or even wine!!
10.0am Your tutor explains the course and introduces you to the Studio. No-one lives here, (although it looks like a beautiful house!) it is just a studio and is your "home" for the weekend. So relax and enjoy!
10.10am Choose your place in the painting studio. Every place is the same, with professional paints, brushes etc. Everyone has their own professional easel, painting table and high stool. Your tutor explains which are the best products to use and tells you why.
10.15am We start "Thinking Like an Artist". We learn how famous artists created their "look or style". How you paint makes a HUGE differencr to the appearance of your painting. You paint in each style we show you, thinking about the mental energy you are using and how each way of painting is creating the "look" At the end of this session you will have made a bit of a decision about how you want to work.
We talk about "visions" and "concepts" and understand what a "concept is and how important it is to your painting.
Everyone works at their own pace and each student is encouraged to paint their own way. (We do NOT teach you to paint like us!! But just show your professional techniques)
We are not here to "Judge" you - just to help you create a professional painting!
12.15am Critique your paintings - time to go ooooh, aaaaaah again!!
12.30pm LUNCH In the upstairs lounge or outside on a good day. We provide a lovely fresh buffet with fresh food, meats and cheeses, salads etc. We are suitable for vegetarians but if you have a special diet, let us know. Tea, coffe, water, soft drinks, red and white wine are available.
1.0pm Mood boards. We show you how to use a good mental process to start any painting. Did you know that painting is 90% idea and 10% paint on canvas? Did you also know that your job as an artist is to give the public a new way of seeing?
1.30pm We create a painting based on concept and vision, discussing how to achieve that vision.
4.0-4.30pm We talk about what you are going to do next day. Choose the size of canvas you want to paint on tomorrow. Day ends We send you off with a little bit of homework.!!
SUNDAY - 2ND DAY
Arrive 9.0am. We start early this morning and finish about 3.30pm, so that students who have long journeys home can leave in daylight.
You will not be putting paint to canvas until you have understood your vision or concept and how to create it. We talk about how you can create a series of paintings from your concept. Bring along some photos if you want to, or some drawings, or leave it to us!
12.0-12.30pm LUNCH In the upstairs lounge or outside on a good day. We provide a lovely fresh buffet with fresh food, meats and cheeses, salads etc. We are suitable for vegetarians but if you have a special diet, let us know. Tea, coffe, water, soft drinks, red and white wine are available.
1.0pm Back to painting
3.15pm Critique your paintings. This is where all the other students "Guess" your concept.
Day ends. Time to collect your paintings and say goodbye (very sad) but most people come back again and again!
This is a "Stage 3 " Painting weekend where your tutor does not impose his/her will on you but encourages you to paint "LIKE YOU" with enjoyment, encouragement and in a relaxed, friendly environment. This should be start of you thinking like an artist and creating a series or works.
WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!!!!! |
