Course details
Join us for this experimental recording and explore using gestural, energetic marks to create movement and fluidity in your paintings.
See how Cornish-based artist Maxine Hart abstracts the landscape using colour shape and line, interpreting her dramatic surroundings through dynamic mark-making and expressive compositions.
Before you start, Maxine asks if you could look at your surroundings afresh by taking photographs or making quick sketches of the landscape around you. These will be the basis for your work during the session; 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, from our historic studios in St Ives, but you can join us wherever you are in the world. This 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?
Once you have booked you will be able to watch on demand immediately.
You can pause, rewind and watch again as often as you like until the session expires 60 days after purchase
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 our students say
Thank you for a wonderful webinar with Maxine Hart. It was terrific and I am completely fired up and inspired… I particularly liked the tonal sketching and mark making exercises which makes for a great warm-up. I look forward to having the video for the next month.
Thank you for making learning from inspirational artists accessible for everyone, not depending where they are located or what their budget is!
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