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COURSE
MODULES
 BASIC
ESSENTIALS AND SETTING UP
What
you will need to get started and recommended sources
in SA for materials and equipment. Setting up to paint
successfully.
PORTRAITURE
Drawing
the Head, Choice of Subject, Importance of Shadow Shapes,
Composition and Structure organised by way of the Planning
Sketch, Painting the Portrait, Dealing with the Background.
Susan demonstrates the stages of work throughout the
workshop.
WILDLIFE
IN WATERCOLOUR
Choice
of Subject, Copyright Problems, Importance of Shadow
Shapes, Drawing the Animal, the Planning Sketch, Achieving
integration of animal and background, Painting the animal.
Susan
demonstrates the stages of work throughout the workshop.
DRAWING
SKILLS
Working
in pencil and charcoal with Still Life subjects we learn
about:
Line,
Tone, Scale, Proportion, Spatiality, Perspective, Formal
Relationships, Composition and Structure, Creating movement
within the painting, Focal points, Planning sketches.
Importance of shadow shapes.
BASIC WATERCOLOUR SKILLS
Stretching
the paper, washes, graded washes, poured washes, wet-in-wet
work, glazing. Creating simple landscapes with washes.
Understanding atmospheric perspective. Painting a simple
Still-Life with limited palette of three colours, concentrating
on the tonal range.
TEXTURING THE FORMAT
Use
of masking fluid, dribbling and splashing, geometric
glazing. Use of adhesive paper, salt, sand, clingfilm.
Use of gesso and acrylic gel medium. Use of simple repeating
prints.
COLOUR
Learning
about colour – temperature, hue, intensity. Creating
interesting shadow colours.
FIGURES
AND PORTRAITS
Figures
and portraits are studied with live models.
LANDSCAPES
Landscapes
are attempted, painting outside and from photographs.
STILL
LIFES, SEMI-ABSTRACTS AND WILDLIFE SUBJECTS
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