Course details
Enjoy creating dynamic landscape paintings from photographs in this new three-part series with artist Maxine Hart.
Photographs are a great way to capture the landscape around you, whether taken close to home or on holiday. However, they can look flatter than your real-life experiences, and painting dynamic compositions from them can be tricky. Taking snapshots and sketches as your starting point, this course teaches you how to breathe life back into your images.
Over three sessions, explore how to create effective compositions from photographs, and see how colour and texture can add atmosphere to your paintings. Learn how to work between realism and abstraction, adding colour through imagination and emotion rather than straightforward depiction. Maxine will take you through various processes and ways-in to create vibrant, expressive paintings. You will be encouraged to ‘find your own voice’ through colour palettes and mark-making; working from your chosen images and imagination to create a composite painting.
Sessions
Session 1: 1.5 hours – Composition
Bring your own photographs to the first session and Maxine will talk you through how to frame and compose a successful image. What to leave in and what to take out, and the freedom to borrow from other images if something works! Spend time sketching with a variety of mediums.
Session 2: 1.5 hours – Colour
Adding colour to your compositions, learn how to respond to the feelings and atmosphere that a landscape evokes. There are no ‘correct’ colours. Again, this is about seeing what works and what doesn’t when composing an image.
Session 3: 1.5 hours – Texture
In this final session, add texture to your compositions through various found objects. See how to layer-up and pair-down your painting as well as to incorporate objects you may have found from your chosen landscape. At the end of the session, you have the option to share your work on our Facebook Alumni page.
What will I learn
Learn a new way to developing a painting.
Work between figuration and abstraction.
See how photographs can inspire a painting.
Work in a looser, more experimental and expressive way.
Learn about adding colour and texture to your paintings.
How does an online session work
Once you have booked, please login to our online learning platform to access the link to the sessions and to find details of any pre course tasks and materials.
If you haven’t yet created an account, you will be sent an email inviting you to do so after booking.
Your access will expire 180 days after purchase.
You can watch this on a PC, laptop or tablet and if you have chromecast or miracast you could even cast to your SmartTV from your phone.
Who would this course suit?
This course is suitable for all abilities. If you are interested in learning new skills and interests, or gaining confidence, experience, attitude and mobility in your painting practice, this course is for you.
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