Watercolor painting outside or 'EN PLEIN AIR.' How to start.
What you'll learn
- Learn to extract a painting composition from a view.
- Learn a reliable formula to plan any painting.
- Learn how to plan an order of work.
- Learn about essential preparation of details.
- How to take measurements and scale down.
- Learn how to select your colours.
Requirements
- Students will require a sketchbook and drawing board or easel
- A 2 B pencil and eraser
- A chair to sit on
- Watercolour paint and paper 300 gm 140 lb.
- A waterbrush or watercolour brushes water and a container
Description
UPDATED 2022.
This is a must do course for anyone who really want's to improve their painting techniques wherever you are painting.
WHY ?
Because you will learn how to extract a composition from a view.
You will better understand a planning process that really works.
You will no longer feel intimidated when planning a composition.
You will improve your ability to focus and concentrate.
See how to select you materials and equipment to keep it simple.
Your confidence will soar when you have gone through this course.
Follow through all the video lectures and see how:
I gather information and solve problems on location.
Look at another subject as I paint it through to the finish. Then you can do the same.
Learn how to look at a subject in a simplified way.
This course is filmed on location and in the studio giving you an easy to follow method to put into practice. Remember you don't have to finish the painting in one go. Work as it suits you. Gather all the information and then you can paint in your studio if you prefer.
These studies will really help you understand a manageable way for working outdoors or 'en plein air' as we artists like to say.
Why choose one of my courses?
Because, as a self-taught artist I understand how a lot of people feel about their creative work, sometimes anxious, sometimes overwhelmed and often that it's not 'good enough'. I will hold your hand as you overcome these fears as I offer a friendly, relaxed and sensitive teaching style.
I also have years of experience of teaching people of all levels both in person and via the internet.
Do one of my courses and you will feel as if I am in the room with you every step of the way.
Enjoy your painting, love Nicola
Who this course is for:
- This is for anyone who wants to learn how to get started painting ouitside
- For anyone who wants to understand how to create a composition from a large view
- Anyone who wants to better understand composition in painting.
- It is for those who want an all round painting knowledge.
Instructor
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Why choose one of my courses?
Because, as a self taught artist I understand how a lot of people feel about their creative work, sometimes anxious, sometimes overwhelmed and often that it's not 'good enough'.
Well I will hold your hand as you overcome these fears as I offer a friendly, relaxed and sensitive teaching style.
Do one of my courses and you will feel as if I am in the room with you every step of the way.
Here's a bit about me.
I originally trained as a graphic artist, and then followed a different career path working in the national media, travel and public relations in both London and Paris.
After sometime I returned to my creative roots full time, so to speak, and became a full time artist, teacher and creative entrepreneur.
The artist bit means I have worked in a variety of media, but am currently splashing about with watercolours. I love the magic they make when the pigments play with the water. And if you let them do their own thing, it's even better.
I have also painted murals in a child's bedroom or around a swimming pool, covering everything from fairies to Tuscan views. Painted furniture with decorative effects and designs and given walls specialist paint effects and stencils. All fun stuff for the discerning home owner
The teaching bit involved me teaching a 'Decorative Paint Effects' section of an interior design certificate course at Kidderminster College, Worcestershire, UK. Here they studied paint effects for walls and furniture, designing and cutting stencils, Period design elements and produced sample boards.
Then continuing the theme of teaching I have also tutored on many private workshops in the above subjects plus decoupage, gilding and trompe l'oeil (trick the eye painting).
Now, installed in the south of France I continue with all of the above but adding on-line courses to my creative portfolio. Flexibility is the name of the game in today's world
I have exhibited widely in the area.
Recently I was invited to plan and teach a creative summer school, offering a variety of artistic subjects, at one of the leading camping venues in the area. So, you never know some of these subjects might pop up as one of my courses on Udemy
I have had work featured in a national 'lifestyle' magazine and on BBC Radio 4 and Central TV in the UK