The Wave (recording)
Oil / Landscape
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How to convey that fleeting moment when a wave crashes on the shore, its drama, energy and movement? Learn the secrets to capturing this dramatic moment in oils.
You will need to gather your own materials for the course and have access to the internet. You will receive a handbook on setting up ready for the course covering equipment and materials.
This course focuses on the particular challenge of capturing the life and soul of the moving wave. Use an expressive approach in oils to capture the dramatic moment when the power of the sea transforms itself into rolling surf. Wherever you are in the world transport yourself to the dramatic coastline around St Ives working from a recording made especially for the course.
Learn how to work with gouache to make annotations on colour and weather. You will gain confidence in using a limited palette and work with a palette knife to capture drama and movement. Then utilize the recording of a live session with Gary for three hours of translating sketches and colour notes into a finished oil painting. You can then use these skills to respond to whatever landscape inspires you, not just the coast.
Share your work with others on social media using the #schoolofpainting
You can pause, rewind and watch again as often as you like until the session expires 60 days after purchase
Recordings & Content
Preparation Tasks
Preparing the Ground
You will work through in your own time a series of tasks to get ready for painting. On purchasing this recorded course, we will send you a specially produced recording to work from along with your videos. The more you experiment the more this will become second nature. Cover how to make annotations, tonal studies in charcoal moving into colour studies in gouache. Armed with lots of studies you will be ready to move into oils.
Painting in Oils
Moving Into Oils
Gary starts the session showing his own approach to working in oils starting with mixing your palette and showing examples of work. If you have an easel either desk or standing have this set up ready, otherwise work on the table. Gary will talk you through your materials and set up and how to start to put your drawing down on to the canvas. Learn to select and crop your colour study.
Gary will show you how to start your painting working with thin washes and then build up. Explore a range of mark making styles and tools to create a confident painting with movement and energy.
What you will get out of this course
- An understanding of the properties of oil paint so you can have more control of the paint and get the effect you want.
- Confidence in colour mixing so you can develop your own personal palette that you can recreate rather than rely on guesswork.
- The skills to develop paintings from drawing studies.
- Confidence in using a variety of tools and techniques to get a range of marks and effects. This will help you create paintings that are interesting and striking.
- Insight into the particular challenge of capturing in oils a moving wave
Who would this course suit?
Whether you are a complete beginner in oil paints or would like to build your confidence working with them, this course is a wonderful starting point. If you love painting landscape but feel stuck, this course gives useful tools for loosening up and animating your paintings.
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What to Bring
You will receive a handbook on setting up ready for the course covering equipment and materials. We will guide you on how best to set up in your own home environment whatever that might be from the kitchen to the studio.
You will need to use oil paint and either low odour white spirit or Zest It, if you are sensitive to solvents.
You will need a laptop or tablet with audio and camera enabled so you can have a screen near where you are working. A phone is not ideal as you will struggle to see enough. You will also need reasonable broadband connection and speed.
How does this online course work?
You can pause, rewind and watch again as often as you like until the session expires 60 days after purchase
You will be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world.
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