Resolving Intuitive Painting (recording)
Caroline Robinson
Immerse yourself in a world of instinct with this explorative online class, looking at ways to coax an intuitive painting to it’s natural conclusion.
Course details
This mixed media course liberates you from expectations and encourages you to embrace the happy accident. Develop your painting in several directions through the act of painting itself, treading that fruitful bridge between intention and invention.
Artist tutor Kerry Harding will open up a world of possibilities for you when it comes to working with oil paint. Through experimenting with tone, viscosity and texture, a whole new creative language unfurls. Discover how using unconventional tools and alternative paint consistencies can shape ideas in a way that feels fluid and instinctive.
Learn how to find starting points from diverse source material. This could be from sketches you bring with you as well as what you gather while on the course. We will use St Ives as our starting point to guide you through the process. There will be brief forays out to gather quick sketches. You’ll be encouraged to invest your observations with your own narrative. The process you will learn through responding to landscape you can then transfer to any subject matter. As you work faster and freer, a visual sense of your personal narrative becomes clearer – a unique creative dialect with its own inflections and idiosyncrasies.
Finally, begin to consolidate and condense your creative yields, gaining insight into the crucial final decisions that pull a painting together. This course empowers you to both let go and have control over your creative output. Learn more about what conditions help you to flourish creatively, taking inspiration out of the unknown and into your control.
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
An introduction to shifting your perspective on inspiration and expectation. Then experiment and explore with oil paints using unconventional tools and media, focusing on creating your own consistencies rather than using paint straight from the tube. Order your experiments into a chart of textures and marks to refer to during the course. Brief sketching sessions outside depending on weather.
Day 2
Develop your experiments from the previous day, layering them and building them up as well as cutting and taking things away to reveal hidden potential. Consider source material after you have begun this layering, starting with your immediate surroundings in St Ives but also bringing in or just learning to notice your personal way of handling paint and narrative.
Day 3
Use a series-based approach to extrapolate your ideas using techniques from previous days. Build spontaneity into your practice and focus less on the finished project. Gain insight into making the final decisions that pull a painting together.
Who would this course suit?
This course would suit anyone looking to gain a better understanding of the process of painting. Whether you’re a beginner looking to demystify making art, or you already have a practice of your own, this is a great opportunity to ensure that your creative energy is used in the most productive way learning to put aside constricting expectations and be more open to where the process can take you. This course involves working in oils. We use low odour white spirit and a turps alternative called Zest It. However if you have a sensitivity to solvents and oil based products the course might not be suitable.
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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 starts at 10am and finishes at 4.30pm, please aim to arrive ten to fifteen minutes before the start time.
All course days after that start at 9.30am and finish at 4pm and there will be an hour for lunch. There are plenty of nearby places to eat and we will serve tea and coffee at break times during the day.
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