Landscape Watercolour Painting

Celebrate

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

250 Birthday

Storm Cloud, after J.M.W. Turner

Explore the inventive drawing and painting techniques of master draughtsman and watercolourist J.M.W.Turner, observed from examples from his sketchbooks found at Tate Gallery London, U.K.

Fridays

March 6th, 13th and 20th

Time: 10:00AM-12:00PM

Cost: $99

Class Overview

Re-create a selection of his images to better understand his process.

Apply these learnt techniques to your own compositions, working with photographs of local landscape that inspire the atmosphere of a Turneresque study.

Practice Mark-Making:

• Working with a variety of conventional and unconventional painting tools - explore a range of surface marks on paper

• Vary application methods - pressure, movement and flow of brush-marks

• Paint to water ratio, paint liquidity on dry or wet watercolour papers

Trees on River after Turner

Goldau, after JMW Turner

Mountains after Turner

Shields Lighthouse J.M.W. Turner

Fire 1841 J.M.W.Turner

Cloudscape K.Dickinson

Trees after Turner