Looking For Colour (rec)
Camilla Dixon
Discover a whole new world of colour through fun and experimental exercises along with exploring the art of ‘simply looking’. This class recording will stimulate and inspire your quest for colour.
Course details
Enjoy creating dynamic reliefs inspired by the landscape around you in this four-part online course.
Join artist Kitty Hillier and learn how to transform your drawings into 3D objects and back again. Inspired by your daily surroundings, wherever you are, Kitty will demystify her technique of building up and paring back a painting so you are left with an exciting new approach to creating work.
This course is a chance to play and experiment with new ways of working. See how to add colour and texture to your drawings, building them up to paintings, reliefs and mobiles, and then back again to drawings. By building this momentum in working, free-up your painting practice and see how you can work between disciplines to find different ways into abstraction.
Kitty will give clear demonstrations for you to follow, following four different ways of working over the four sessions. You will be encouraged to collect objects from the landscape and build your own kinetic response to your surroundings. Working through the course, find ways to develop your ideas, using materials as a way to build a body of work.
Sessions
As soon as you book you will have access to our online learning platform where you can access all the course resources, including a recommended materials list. You will work through a series of recorded teaching sessions which you can watch as often as you like for 180 days.
Session 1
Use objects that you have collected from your immediate surroundings, spend time experimenting with shapes, form and texture. Kitty will demonstrate colour mixing using only primary colours and how to transform your sketches and observations into abstract shapes.
Session 2
Transform your sketches and paintings into collage. See how ‘drawing’ with scissors as well as adding layers of paper and card can add movement to your work.
Session 3
Taking your experimental sketches one step further again, creating 3D rockers, which are simple forms using cardboard. Adding depth and movement to your work this way can help you progress your ideas even further into abstraction.
Session 4
Move back into painting. Using our abstract 3D shapes to draw and paint from, see how moving from 2D to 3D and back again can add life and playfulness to your paintings.
What will I learn
Learn a new way into developing your ideas and approaches to painting.
Build confidence in working in 3D.
See how sculpture can inspire painting and vice versa.
Work with new mediums, see how different materials can build texture and dynamism in your work.
Work in a more fluid, intuitive way. Move quickly from piece to piece and lose your inhibitions in the process.
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. Kitty’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.
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 our community of fellow students from around the world.
You will need access to the internet and ideally a Smart TV, PC or laptop or a tablet with audio. Phones are not suitable unless cast to a smart TV.
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