Paint Play

‘Fertility Goddess’ by Rosie Fisher (mixed media)

Painting course with Celia – Paint Play – Adding and Subtracting. Building layers and finding your unique style

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All levels welcome

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Fridays starting 30th September

Time: 10am – 1pm

Dates: 30th Sept. 7th, 14th, October (no class on 21st October) 28th, 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November

Duration: 8 week course

Price: £280.00 or 2 instalments of £140.00 - All materials and refreshments included

Venue: The Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, IV36 3TA

Choose a theme or bring in an object from home or a photograph that has meaning to you personally. Create preliminary sketches and drawings leading to a series of paintings based on this.

Themes: Inside, Outside, Family/Figurative, Narrative/Surrealist, Autumn, Letting go, The Mundane.

Objects can be anything from your home that has a personal meaning for you. e.g your grandfather’s pipe, your mother’s favourite flower, your old teddy.

Photograph can be a landscape that you love, a place you grew up in as a child etc.

We shall be using a range of drawing materials (dry)

Pencils, coloured pencils, charcoal, rubbers, conte crayons, pastels (chalk and oil) marker pens, drawing pens, black ink.

Wet materials: Coloured inks, acrylic paints, house paints, thinning and thickening mediums for paint.

Collage materials: old books, decorative scrap papers, old magazines, old photographs, old theatre/bus travel tickets, old maps, old sheet music, any other detritus.

Tools: As well as the traditional brushes, we can apply paint with bowl scrappers, trowels, palette knives, scratch into the paint with screwdrivers and use sandpaper to reveal layers underneath.

Building layers, adding and subtracting: We will learn about how to build layers by using paint thickly (adding mediums) and thinly by watering down, wiping off and creating washes as well as glazing.

You will become more aware of how to use the Compositional Elements of picture making such as Line; will your line be thick, thin, wide, wiggly, straight, broken, scalloped, curved, looped, scribbled, smooth, repeated lines, cross-hatched, meandering etc.

Will your Shapes be organic, angular, hard-edged, soft-edged, torn, straight, large, small, representational, abstract, symbolic, meaningful such as numbers, letters, architectural drawings, chemistry, music, maps etc.

Spaces; will they be cluttered or a rest for the eyes?

Texture: will it be rough and expressive or smooth and calm?   

Contrast: How much contrast can you make with the multitude of tonal values? Is your work all mid-tone? How can you make it stronger?  

Colour: Learn how to use colour in a powerful way: Know the difference between saturated, non- saturated, (neutral or mixed colours) Complimentary and harmonious colour mixing.

Interpreting your personal subject matter: Working from representational subject matter that you can bring into the class, it can be a meaningful object or a photograph, OR you can work completely abstractly and intuitively. In whatever way you would like to work, you will be finding your unique style through the process of making your series of paintings.

Please book with Celia: email: celiafs@btinternet.com

When you have booked your place, I will send you my bank details for your payment.

Many thanks.

Hope to see you soon for some more fantastic Art making!

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Gift Cards are not accepted for this course