- Line & Wash to Wet on Wet
[Watercolours and/or Acrylics] - Alla Prima to Layering
[Oils and/or Acrylics] - Solo to Mixed Media
[Watercolours and/or Pastels] - Solo to Mixed
Media
[Acrylics and/or Pastels]
ADDED EXTRAS
- Pulp to Paper to Paint
- Trayscapes to Paint
2008 Schedule |
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| Easter Lambing Break | Spring Bank Holiday Break |
| PASTELS and/or ACRYLICS | WATERCOLOURS and/or ACRYLICS |
| Monday March 24 [Afternoon
Tea] Tuesday March 25 [Painting Day] Wednesday March 26 [Painting Day] Thursday March 27 [Painting Day] |
Friday May 2 [Afternoon
Tea] Saturday May 3 [Painting Day] Sunday May 4 [Painting Day] Monday May 5 [Painting Day] |
Add the following
for Easter Lambing Week |
Add the following for Spring Bank Holiday Week |
| Friday March 28 [Reference
Gathering Day] Saturday March 29 [Painting Clinic] Sunday March 30 [Painting Day] Monday March 31 [Painting Day] |
Tuesday May 6 [Reference
Gathering Day] Wednesday May 7 [Painting Clinic] Thursday May 8 [Painting Day] Friday May 9 [Painting Day] |
| Spring Colours Break | Midsummer-Magic Break |
| OILS and/or ACRYLICS | WATERCOLOURS and/or ACRYLICS |
| Friday
May 30 [Afternoon Tea] Saturday May 31 [Painting Day] Sunday June 1 [Painting Day] Monday June 2 [Painting Day] |
Friday June 27 [Afternoon
Tea] Saturday June 28 [Painting Day] Sunday June 29 [Painting Day] Monday June 30 [Painting Day] |
| Add the following for Spring Colours Week |
Add the following for Midsummer-Magic Week |
| Tuesday June 3 [Reference
Gathering Day] Wednesday June 4 [Painting Clinic] Thursday June 5 [Painting Day] Friday June 6 [Painting Day] |
Tuesday July 1 [Reference
Gathering Day] Wednesday July 2 [Painting Clinic] Thursday July 3 [Painting Day] Friday July 4 [Painting Day] |
| Summer Colours Break | Autumn Colours Break |
| WATERCOLOURS and/or PASTELS | MEDIA OF YOUR CHOICE |
| Friday August 8 [Afternoon
Tea] Saturday August 9 [Painting Day] Sunday August 10 [Painting Day] Monday August 11 [Painting Day] |
Friday October 17
[Afternoon Tea] Saturday October 18 [Painting Day] Sunday October 19 [Painting Day] Monday October 20 [Painting Day] |
| Add the following for Summer Colours Week |
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| Tuesday August 12 [Reference
Gathering Day] Wednesday August 13 [Painting Clinic] Thursday August 14 [Painting Day] Friday August 15 [Painting Day] |
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EACH PAINTING DAY comprises 6 hours continuous tuition & painting, with an additional half hour break for the picnic lunch that we provide. On each day I produce a fully narrated and detailed step-by-step demonstration, employing a variety of different techniques, which breaks off at critical stages throughout the day. This allows painters to work on their own painting in-between the breaks and as guests do so, I visit each to offer one-to-one help and further tuition.
We provide outdoor chairs for the comfort of all our painting guests.
Should the weather prevent us from painting out of doors, painters produce thumbnails on the spot and we take reference digital photographs of the views that each guest wishes to paint. The references are downloaded and printed off while we make our way indoors – where painters can continue on the composition.
ICE-BREAKING AFTERNOON TEA is hosted by us in our home, this provides painting guests with the opportunity to meet and get settled with each other and swap experiences. Just as importantly, it gives me the opportunity to ascertain each painter’s needs and what they are looking for in the painting days to come. I take notes and incorporate those needs into my demonstrations to ensure guests leave us knowing that they can go further in the pursuit of their painting. We round off the tea with a quick guide to colour mixing using the six basic colours in my painting palette.
REFERENCE GATHERING DAY available for those attending the Painting Week. The ideal opportunity for painters to be taken on a guided tour of a variety of locations that will inspire future paintings. Some time will be spent at each site to explore the compositional benefits and to work on thumbnails. Lasting a full day, environmental changes such, as the weather and changing light, will imbue each location with unique qualities. Painters will find the experience totally thought provoking.
PAINTING CLINIC available
for those attending the Painting Week, this is a Q&A day-long opportunity for painters to have those
troublesome problems sorted out. I take questions from each painter
and demonstrate the method or technique required to solve the problems
raised. In this way we can concentrate on producing paintings on
the other days, using a variety of techniques – while the
painting clinic allows painters the chance to tackle specific difficulties
that irk them when painting at home.
Places are limited to 5 people
ADDED EXTRAS
Pulp to Paper to Paint with Paul Ritchie
Paul Ritchie and I have known each since Art College days, when we both gained a BA in Fine Art. Paul went on to become a Master Etcher and amongst his many achievements, helped establish the etching department of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen and the Manchester Etching Workshop.
One of his major projects was to produce a facsimile edition of William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, published in collaboration with the V&A. Generally regarded as one of the finest facsimile editions, attracting worldwide collectors, Paul not only produced the prints, but made the paper on which they were printed (faithfully replicating the properties of the paper used in Blake’s original edition).
I was privileged to work with Paul on this project, as a Master Colourist and we have remained friends for our entire professional lives.
Having moved back to his native Collieston in Aberdeenshire, Paul continues his work there and in 2006 Eileen and I joined him for one of his annual events – the Collieston Gala.
Following our visit to the 2007 gala, we talked of putting on a joint workshop, based around Paul’s increasingly popular workshop ‘Pulp to Print’ – attached to the 2008 Collieston Gala at the end of July.
Painting Guests will spend the first day in the company of Paul Ritchie, learning how to create their own paper in the morning, producing a traditional etching plate and print on the same paper in the afternoon - the following day spent with myself learning how to prepare the same paper for painting and either colouring the previously produced print (as William Blake did), or working up a simple watercolour study.
Please email extras@artworkshopwithpaul.com for full details of this special workshop
Trayscapes to Paint with Robert Ketchell
Author of the Bestselling Book “Japanese Gardens in a Weekend”
A number of years ago Robert and I organised a special weekend combining our professional skills to link the world of gardening and painting – the purpose of which was to encourage painters to explore the link between these two artistic disciplines.
Robert is a Master Japanese Gardener, who served his apprenticeship in Japanese Gardening under the tutelage of a Sensai in Kyoto over a period of many years and has been the Chairman of the Japanese Garden Society in the UK for a considerable time.
Apart from his work as a landscape designer on projects both in the UK and overseas, Robert leads a number of guided tours to gardens in China and Japan in Spring and Autumn every year.
Following Robert’s latest visit to us last year, we talked of staging another “Trayscapes to Paint” in 2008, as part of our programme of painting breaks.
Painting Guests will spend the first day in the company of Robert, learning how to create their own miniature living landscape, known as a ‘trayscape’ - with the following day spent with myself learning how to paint one’s own trayscape, either as a still-life, or by looking into and interpreting it as a full-blown landscape. As Robert says….“‘Trayscapes’ are intended to be living paintings.
Please email extras@artworkshopwithpaul.com for full details of this special workshop