Mixed media landscape

Getting Started with Mixed Media Landscape

Acrylic / Mixed Media / Beginners / Landscape - Materials included

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Course details

This inspiring course offers exciting new ways to creatively absorb your spectacular St Ives surroundings. With an encouraging and experimental approach, establish a solid foundation in mixed media painting.

Mixed Media Art for Beginners St Ives School of Painting

This course is a concentrated dose of encouraging tuition and individual experimentation, giving you a solid foundation in mixed media landscape. Our spectacular surroundings and relaxed St Ives studios provide an ideal climate for you to feel confident and excited about trying something new. Benefit from generous guidance and inspiring tuition with one-to-one support on how to evolve your paintings and open the door to new techniques with confidence.

Develop your sketches through dynamic experiments that loosen up your mark making. Use a host of materials including oil bars, graphite, cut-outs and pencils with a variety of tools to introduce surprise and expression in your studies. 

Armed with the new tools and techniques you’ve learned, shift your perspective on your source material, approaching them as starting points. Use them to guide you on your journey to discovering rewarding ways to creatively absorb the world around you and create distinct responses with depth and dimension.

expressive mixed media painting of the sea

Day to day plan

This is a rough indication of what to expect over the course. However sometimes the structure of the days may alter depending on the nature of the group and weather.

Day 1

Spend time out in the landscape working freely in a sketchbook to record your personal take on the stunning St Ives surroundings.

Day 2

Expand your work into printmaking in mono printing. In the afternoon we will explore the benefits of using a limited palette working with acrylics. 

Day 3

We will spend time out in the landscape in the morning. Combining ideas from this as well as themes developed in the previous days.  We will look at artists Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham and Ellsworth Kelly. 

Day 4

Back in the studio start to combine collage with painting using painted papers to add dimension and depth in your landscapes.

What will I learn?

  1. Tailored insight into how to develop your ideas  
  2. A creative momentum to see and absorb the world around you a little differently. 
  3. Confidence using techniques and developing ideas that you can use in any creative capacity back at home. 
  4. Permission to wholeheartedly try something new, without judgement or self-criticism. 
  5. A chance to experiment with a lot of different kinds of materials with guidance so you can make some unexpected discoveries of processes that you enjoy and would like to use again. 

Who would this course suit?

This course is for you, whether you’re finally getting around to something that’s been on your mind for a while, shedding some light on some forgotten creative corners or giving yourself the gift of painting for the very first time. It introduces you to techniques and feeds you with a confidence you can take with you wherever your creativity leads you. 

Getting Started with Mixed Media Landscape

Acrylic / Mixed Media / Beginners / Landscape – Materials included

Book Selected Date

What to Bring

Our studios are fully equipped and we provide you with all the materials you need for your course. However, if you have a favourite set of brushes or any specialist materials that you would prefer to use, please bring them with you.

Timings and Breaks

The first day usually starts at 10 am and finishes at 4.30 pm.

All course days after that start at 9.30 am and finish at 4 pm and there will be an hour for lunch. Occasionally these times may be changed if required by the tutor. There are plenty of nearby places to eat or you are welcome to bring a packed lunch into the studio.

Taught by

Liz
Luckwell

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Liz Luckwell’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the act of drawing, which underpins her method of working with materials, allowing images to emerge from the process itself. Starting from realistic beginnings—often sketching her immediate environment—Luckwell’s work evolves through a gradual process of simplification, distilling forms into more abstracted, emotive expressions. Her creative journey is infused with early memories of helping her mother craft wreaths and bouquets on the kitchen table, a tactile experience that still informs her approach. Working from her home, the Gardener’s Cottage, she often reflects on her family’s deep connection to gardening, a theme that permeates pieces like her oil pastel on board Summer Weeds, where natural forms are transformed through a nuanced, intimate exploration of colour and texture.

Steven
Buckler

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My work is about more than the landscape, it’s about the sense of being in it. The atmosphere, the light and the colour. For me it is about drawing and painting these bits of our landscape that are normally edited out of our perception and experience.

What our students say

The course adverts really don’t get across the inspirational elements of the experience. It reawakens the artist in everyone.

Liz Grindrod

Fun tutors, lovely studio, space to explore different ideas and approaches, hour long lunch break, going out to observe, fun fellow students.

Grace

There was a great contrast between the two tutors which gave each day something slightly different. All of the tasks and exercises were interesting, creative, educational and fun. As was the contrast between studio and outside working. The students within the group were also great fun to be around. 

Graeme

Everything I wanted and more!

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