Five Week Courses: Tuesdays
Tuesdays 2-4pm
Merchants’ Place, 16 Church St, Cromer, NR27 9ES
Disabled parking only, all other parking in the pay & display on Meadow carpark off Louden Road.
There are six courses to choose from this year. We will explore working in tone and understanding the benefits of limited palette exercises to improve our painting, and work in different mediums to discover our personal favourites.
All illustrations on this page have been created by people whilst attending my classes. Lots of people come to me having done no art since school, all they need is a little encouragement and a positive environment to explore and discover what they can achieve!
N.B., occasionally you may be asked to bring along an A3 sketchpad to store your work in.
Creating a Sketchbook
14/1, 21/1, 28/1, 4/2, 11/2- Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
This is a great introduction to the year’s courses and would suit anyone returning to art after a break or those wishing to learn new skills.
An artist’s sketchbook is very personal to them. Creating your own can be challenging. Where do you start, what should you include? Over this 5-week course we will look at some subjects and mediums to get you going.
Mediums to be used: Pencil, Charcoal, Pen and Ink, Watercolour, Acrylic and Pencil Crayon.
Includes a basic sketchbook
Watercolour & Gouache
25/2, 4/3, 11/3, 18/3, 25/3- Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
Looking at the processes of using watercolours successfully.
Discovering Gouache, a richer relative of Watercolour. Exploring how and when to use the two mediums, together or separately.
Wk.1 Watercolour rules
Wk.2 Washes and detail
Wk.3 Gouache properties
Wk.4 & Wk.5 Practicing both mediums on your own choice of subject
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Pastel in all it’s forms
22/4, 29/4, 6/5, 13/5, 20/5 - Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
Looking at what’s achievable with the wide variety of pastel products on the market whilst creating paintings in a range of subjects.
Canvas surfaces will be provided for work with oil pastels.
A selection of different pastel papers will be available for soft pastel work.
Wk.1 Oil pastels, how to use them
Wk.2 Soft pastel, how to build up layers
Wk.3 Pastel pencils
Wk.4 & Wk.5 Creating your own paintings using the pastel medium of your choice
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Acrylics, Miniature to Magnificent!
24/6, 1/7, 8/7, 22/7, 29/7 - Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
Whilst exploring the techniques we can employ with Acrylics; we will create a series of pieces from a miniature to large canvas – A7 to A2 size paintings; as well as painting on different surfaces and objects.
Wk.1 Looking at ways we can apply Acrylics
Wk.2 Miniature canvas
Wk.3 & Wk.4 Two weeks on large canvas (extra charge for large canvas)
Wk.5 Creating designs on different surfaces, garden pots, tiles and ceramics.
(N.B. may be an extra charge for objects)
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Oils, Traditional to Modern
23/9, 30/9, 7/10, 14/10, 21/10 - Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
We will work through the traditional method of a ‘tonal underpainting’, as used by the ‘old masters’, to more modern approaches, using ground colours, pallet knife and impasto techniques to create a series of paintings.
Wk.1 ‘Flemish’ tonal underpainting
Wk.2 Next layers
Wk.3 Ground colour and ‘Alla Prima’ techniques
Wk.4 & Wk.5 Working on your own paintings in preferred method
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One object, 5 Artists
4/11, 11/11, 18/11, 25/11, 2/12 - Tuesdays 2-4pm
Fee £100.00 pp to include all materials and refreshments
Selecting one object and taking our inspiration from five famous paintings we will create five pieces of work in a variety of mediums.
Wk.1 Antony Gormley
Wk.2 Rene Magritte
Wk.3 David Hockney
Wk.4 Vincent Van Gogh
Wk.5 Bridgette Riley
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