
Where Sea Meets Land - Winter Storm
Gary Long
Learn to convey the drama and energy of a stormy sea encountering the land in oils. Capture the movement of the sea as it clashes with an iconic Cornish harbour.
Learn how to depict the figure in an interior setting. Discover techniques to help you compose a visually compelling painting capturing the model and the surrounds.
Working from a live model in our Porthmeor Studios, learn how to capture the figure against the backdrop of a window looking out over the rooftops to the sea. Over three-days, Eleanor will guide you through a series of exercises, demonstrating how to explore composition, tone and colour. Designed to encourage you to find your own visual language, look to artists including Degas, Sickert, Gwen John and Diebenkorn, and see how to break down a complex set-up into various elements.
Starting with this theme, you will initially explore composition, and how to depict a figure in an environment. You will work from a live model, and Eleanor will demonstrate how to tackle the challenges this presents. Using shorter sketches and studies before moving on to longer, larger works, Eleanor will demonstrate how to mix a colour palette in oils, and how to add tone and depth to your compositions. This will also be a chance to experiment, and to see what working style suits you – whether that be more accurate and detailed or open and expressive.
Ideal if you are looking for new ways to approach the figure as well as fresh approaches to composition. Although some experience using oil paints would be helpful, it is not essential.
Starting with an introduction, we will look at various examples by a range of painters including Degas, Sickert and Gwen John. Working directly from the model, explore composition to set out your painting. Start with loose charcoal and graphite drawings; moving into a colour palette in oils.
Using traditional colour mixing, work on a couple of smaller studies to explore the compositional, tonal and colour challenges presented as you capture the model and the surrounding environment. Progress to a larger piece.
With lots of individual attention from your tutor, work towards a final, larger piece.
This course is suitable for anyone. Ideal if you have some experience working with oil paints, but not essential.
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.
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.