Plein Air
CANCELLED
Watercolour Landscape Painting Outside
Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. (Location to be confirmed)
Date: July 10th
Time: Wednesday 10:00Am-3:00PM
Price: $99 (one day session)
Enjoy the spontaneous process of watercolour painting from life, outside this summer in Vancouver parks.
Brush drawing
Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world.
During the month of July and August, I plan to offer a series of LIVE “Plein Air” (painting outdoors) workshops where we meet in Vancouver Park locations in the lower mainland.
Session 1 - July 10th
Quick Studies
The emphasis will be to work at your studies quickly, responding to nature by looking and recording what you see.
Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world. Translate the complexities of nature into abstractions of a tree shape and form, find the patterns in shrubbery and foliage, the variety of colour in flowers. Pull it all together into a composition, using leading lines and the division of space within a landscape scene.
North Shore Vancouver
This course includes an introduction to the following skills and techniques for watercolour sketching Plein Air
Observational Drawing
Learn the basics of drawing what you see
Observational drawing
Explore composition: Thumbnail drawing sketch compositions of the landscape surroundings
Tonal value: Translate drawing to monochromatic studies
Working with colour: Using key attributes of colour appearance - determine hue, saturation and value in your work
Painting techniques: Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint
Painting techniques
Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint
Travel light: Bring your travel box-set of watercolours, watercolour paper sketchbook, water brushes, bull clips to hold sketchbook paper and a fold away chair. Supply details on registration.
A maximum of six participants per class. Please email for information if you are interested in taking this series of classes.
Bring supplies you like to work with.