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Join us in the watercolour studio for a new course where we shall be taking our ideas and inspiration from two new London exhibitions: Siena – the Rise of Painting and Noah Davis .
Both exhibitions represent golden moments of change within their respective lives and surroundings.
We look forward to seeing you in the watercolour studio.
Tuesdays
29 April – 20 May
10am – 12.30pm
Course Fee : £85
Course Outline
29 April & 6 May
In 14th century Siena, artists were developing a new way of painting. They painted with a drama that no one had seen before. Faces show emotion. Bodies move in space. Stories flow across panels in beautifully coloured scenes.
We will be taking sections from the works in the
exhibition, such as drapery, scenery, or individual faces, still lives etc. to develop our techniques.
Wk. 1 How to create luminosity with watercolour
Wk. 2 How to use lustres, gold and/or gouache to add shimmering effects and highlights to a watercolour.
circa 1308-1311
13 & 20 May
Jumping forward 700 years we meet a young painter from Los Angeles who is still concerned with figures in a landscape. He paints from the heart with no less emotion than the Italian masters of old, but what has changed? We will explore his connections to old master painters and his contemporary leaps into the unknown.
Wk. 3 Exploring the compositional devises used in Noah’s work. Then, choosing and sketching out our own backyards and how to represent or position our family and friends.
Wk. 4 Looking at Noah’s works on paper techniques. Davis preferred collage as a method of working on paper. He was constantly tearing pages from books and magazines, combining these found images and others in formally inventive ways and playfully adding
his own line drawings on top
We look forward to seeing you in the watercolour studio for this short, four week course.
