The following topics will be covered during the course:
Painting Materials
Tools and Supports – essential materials and tools and their application
Painting and priming surfaces, how to stretch canvas and paper
Preliminary Studies – using windows, viewfinders, sketching techniques and squaring up the drawing
Composition – keeping it clear and simple; what to keep and what to reject; cropping, deep space, planes and structure
Alla Prima – making quick studies, using wet into wet, a fully loaded brush, washes and linear sketches
Qualities of Colour – hue, chroma and value
Creating your own colour wheel, the science, symbolic and psychological meaning of colour
Colour Mixing 1 – how to mix black and make a grey scale
Colour Mixing 2 – how to mix tints, tones and shades
Tonal Painting – considerations in using a restricted palette and simplifying forms, planes, tones and temperatures
Painting the Figure – exploring different approaches to mixing flesh tones
Resolving Figure Painting – completing your figure study
Course and personal review.