Enjoy creating luminous abstract paintings using coldwax painting. Learn how these three fundamental aspects – texture, line and shape – can help develop your unique visual vocabulary.

Join artist Laura Menzies for this three-part series using the landscape and it’s various dualities as its starting point. Play with variations of light and dark, stillness and movement and different scales and develop your coldwax painting practice.

Over three sessions, Laura takes you through how to translate a landscape into an abstract painting using coldwax painting techniques. A chance to loosen your approach and build luminous paintings with depth, texture and vitality. In between each session, you will have the chance to practice new techniques and play with various approaches.

Laura will give clear demonstrations for you to carry out at your own pace, following a theme designed to look more closely at the landscape and create atmospheric paintings; the dualities of the light and the elements will be a way in to capturing a place or area. Taking you through the fundamentals of coldwax painting, Laura shows you how line, texture and tone can work individually and in harmony with one another.

In preparation for the sessions, you will need to collect 4 to 6 images of the ‘landscape’. These can be whole or partial – a landscape or zoomed in details of textures of bark or reflections on water, for instance.

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What will I learn

Learn how to use coldwax medium in your work.

Build confidence using colour and tone in your painting.

Build your own visual vocabulary.

Learn how to add texture to give your painting depth and luminosity.

Work in a more fluid, intuitive way. Move quickly from piece to piece and lose your inhibitions in the process.

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 180 days after purchase

You will also be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world.

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. Laura’s approach will help you build confidence in working between disciplines, integrating one into the other, and finding new ways in to creating a painting.