Interpreting the Landscape
Acrylic / Landscape
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Join us for this experimental webinar and explore using gestural, energetic marks to create movement and fluidity in your paintings.
Coinciding with her show at Morgans Art Gallery in Falmouth, join Cornwall-based artist Maxine Hart for her first webinar at the St Ives School of Painting. See how Maxine abstracts the landscape using colour shape and line, interpreting her dramatic surroundings through dynamic mark-making and expressive compositions.
Leading up to the webinar, Maxine will ask you to look at your surroundings afresh by taking photographs or making quick sketches of the landscape. These will be the basis for your work in the webinar; building these up through experimental processes, combining drawing and painting and embracing happy accidents. Working across a number of pieces simultaneously, learn how to capture your chosen landscape through embracing the qualities of paint and balancing your composition through colour and tone.
Looking at the work of various artists including Joan Eardley, Cornelia Foss and Richard Diebenkorn, Maxine will explain how these artists took inspiration from their own surroundings. Learn how to transform the feeling for a landscape or place into an expressive composition.
Maxine will guide you, live from our historic studios in St Ives, but you can join us wherever you are in the world. This webinar is ideal if you are looking for a way-in to capturing the landscape in a more abstract way. It will help you to loosen your approach and to find your own visual vocabulary. By encouraging experimentation and working across a number of works simultaneously, Maxine encourages a less ‘precious’ approach to image making.
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for both absolute beginners and those with more experience, looking to build confidence in new ways of working. Aimed to help you step out of your comfort zone and loosen your approach to drawing and painting. Maxine will be working in acrylic paints, but you could also work in gouache if you would prefer to.
In advance of the class, you will be asked to do some walking, taking photographs and sketches of your chosen environment – be that your local park or a far-off holiday destination!
What will I learn?
1. Build confidence looking at the landscape and building your own visual language.
2. Enjoy the qualities and properties of acrylic paint which can be used in sketches and finished pieces of artwork.
3. How to transform drawings into abstract compositions.
4. How to find your own colour palette.
5. How to loosen your approach to painting.
How does an online session work?
We will send you a link the day before the session so you can join in live. You can put questions to the tutor using the online chat function.
We record the sessions so you can watch on demand, as often as you like, for up to 1 month after. This way you can pause a scene, rewind and finish your painting.
You will be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world. You can also share your work live with others on social media using the #schoolofpainting
You can watch on a PC, laptop or tablet and if you have chromecast or miracast you could even cast to your SmartTV from your phone.
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What to Bring
We will send you a handbook on setting up ready for the course covering equipment and materials. There will be a task sent to you before the webinar to help take photographs and make quick sketches.
You will need access to the internet and ideally a PC, laptop or a tablet with audio. Phones are not really suitable to watch a webinar on, unless you can cast to your Smart TV, as the presenter will be hard to see when they share their screen with you .
Timings and Breaks
Live broadcast, 4:30pm, Thursday 28th July (1.5 hours)
During the session please pose questions to the artist using the chat function.
You can revisit as often as you like for up to 1 month after broadcast via the same links as the live events.
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