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. The technique will involve mixing oil paints with the medium. 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 follow, 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.

This course takes place on Vimeo and you will have access to the recordings for up to 90 days after the course ends. After the course continue to share your work with other participants and alumni of the Painting School on our private Facebook group.

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, please login to our online learning platform to access the link to the live session 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.

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 until it expires. You will also be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world. We will also set up a private Facebook group just for this course.

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.

What to Bring

We will send you a materials list to get together and any pre-course tasks.

You will need access to the internet and either a Smart TV, PC or laptop or a tablet with audio. Phones are not really suitable however cast your phone to a Smart TV.

Timings

At 10:45 please click the link to join the live session.

Session 1 – recording to watch now

Session 2 – recording to watch now

Thursday 24th November, 11:00 – 12:30

You will have access to a recording of the sessions so you can revisit as often as you like for the duration of the course and for 90 days after the final live broadcast.