Landscape Painting - Nottingham Trent University

Description

Step into the natural world and capture its beauty on this immersive landscape painting course. With an inspiring mix of en plein air sessions and studio-based work, you’ll develop essential techniques to create stunning and atmospheric landscapes. Under the guidance of a professional landscape artist, you’ll explore composition, tone, colour, and mark-making. You’ll paint in locations within Nottingham experiencing the light, movement, and grandeur of the natural landscape firsthand. When the weather takes a turn, you’ll return to the studio to hone your skills further using photographs you’ve taken. Designed for those with basic painting experience, this course will push your artistic practice to new heights as you learn to paint landscapes that are expressive, evocative, and uniquely yours. You’ll learn the essential compositional rules, colour and painting techniques to achieve panoramic skies and beautiful landscapes. There will also be some exercises in line and tone using charcoal, ink and pencil. Whilst the course will focus on oil painting, you can bring whatever other mediums you prefer to work with. During this course, you will: ● enjoy the unique experience of working in the rural landscape , in a variety of settings in and around Nottinghamshire ● work from a range of source material; from photographs and sketches to direct observation of the landscape (weather permitting) ● loosen up with line drawings and gain the confidence to put colours straight onto the canvas without a guide line ● learn how to maintain a level of expressive freedom in mark-making when working from photograph in the studio ● learn how to choose your palette to achieve distance and panorama ● apply and appropriately use tone, warm and cold colours in both skies and landscape ● study the rules of landscape composition such as point of focus and depth of field in order to create a beautiful artwork that flows. By the end of the course, you will have created a series of landscape artworks, painted both outdoors and in the studio. These pieces will demonstrate your understanding of composition, tone, and colour, as well as your ability to convey the beauty and energy of the natural world. Tutor profile: Sarah Watson is a practicing artist, painter and teacher who exhibits in shows across the UK and is represented by Gallery6 in Newark, Nottinghamshire. She featured on the Sky Arts television show Landscape Artist of the Year in 2016 and was accepted for membership of the exclusive Lincolnshire Artists’ Society in 2019. Sarah has a First Class Honours degree in Combined Arts from De Montfort University where she specialised in abstract painting. Sarah paints mostly English landscapes ideally en plein air, or from photographs she has taken on landscape trips. She travels to any landscape that inspires her expressive outlook, from the mountainscapes in Snowdonia to the Lake District to Iceland. The course is designed to give you the compositional tools and techniques in your chosen medium, to have the confidence to go out on your own and paint in the landscape, one of the most meditative and awe-inspiring ways to create art, within and responding to the natural landscape. Level: Open to all Entry requirement: To make the most of this course, some familiarity with basic painting techniques would be beneficial. If you’re completely new to oil painting, we’d recommend completing the Oil Painting course at NTU or a similar introductory course elsewhere before attending. If you are bringing mediums aside from oil paints, you should already have some basic experience and be ready to push your artistic practice further. Good outdoor clothes and footwear are a must as you will be walking to some locations over rural terrain whilst carrying your equipment. You must be over the age of 18 in order to attend this course.

What's included in the price?

This is a practical course and the subject is underpinned by theory and demonstrations. This course will be delivered in person on Nottingham Trent University City Campus. Your course fees cover the cost of studies and include great benefits such as the use of our modern library and free use of the IT equipment and software on the campus during your course. Your course fees include everything you need to dive right into painting—premium oil paints, quality canvases, brushes, and more, so you can focus on creating with professional equipment. You may also wish to bring with you: • Any paints, brushes, canvas, and artists’ equipment you already have • oil paints are provided but you can bring any coloured medium you prefer to work in, from pastels to watercolours • Cotton rags • Glass jars • Old credit card / flat plastic object for scraping • Sharp spikey tool(s) like a small skewer from the kitchen, hair grip, nails, old scissors • portable easels and folding chairs are optional, as is working on the ground on a blanket, whatever is most comfortable for you. On successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate of attendance.

Cancellation policy

Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts

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