Try your hand at chinese brush painting in both the traditional and contemporary style
Come and join us for a weekend workshop learning to paint a still life, capturing the essence of the festive season. Finish the weekend with new skills in realist painting and your still life beautifully framed - to give as a gift for someone special or to keep just for you. Choose your still life props from a selection to personalise your painting or bring a special object from home to add to your composition.
Extended for one more day - 6th July 2019
Chinese brush painting is done with ink and watercolour on special Chinese papers using Chinese brushes. Learn how to do six caligraphy brush strokes to produce many subjects of Traditional Chinese subject matter.
Using knowledge accumulated from generations of artists, you will have the opportunity to receive the skills necessary to complete a beautiful portrait from life. Your training will be divided into 3 developmental projects, ‘The Value of the Cast’, ‘Portrait in Noir’, and ‘Black and Blue’. The first part in a series of three workshops, focuses on the value of the cast and cast drawing, as the vital initial stage in oil portrait painting. A materials list will be provided. Places are limited. Location - Nottingham Society of Artists, First Floor Teaching Room. About Robin Perko: Taught by master artists in Florence, Robin Perko captures realistic emotive portraits that accurately represent form, space and most importantly the character of the sitter. facebook.com/robinperko.artist instagram.com/paintslosher
This 4 week experimental workshop is intended for artists who already have some practical painting skills and experience but feel you would benefit from regular professional tuition to help you develop your own subjects and ideas alongside other painters. Working from observation, photograph or other references, you will be given individual guidance to help you develop your own painting practice. The sessions are spaced fortnightly to allow time to work further on your paintings on your own. There will also be excellent opportunity for discussion and group analysis, and expert advice on materials and working methods. To book, please visit nottinghamartstudio.co.uk/?page_id=38 and email Mark. Suggested Materials Paints: Oils or acrylics: titanium white, cadmium yellow pale, yellow ochre, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, prussian blue, burnt sienna, raw umber, viridian Brushes: Hog bristle for oils, synthetic for acrylics- a variety of sizes and shapes Supports: Primed painting boards or canvases Sundries: Oils: a large, flat mixing palette (approx 11”x 16”, melamine, or a disposable palette), palette knife, old rags, LOW ODOUR SOLVENT and jar, refined linseed oil and small jar/dipper, Acrylics: a large, flat mixing palette, jars and rags Old/protective clothing *Booking conditions: Places are limited to 12 students per workshop. Allocation will take place on a first come first served basis, subject to receipt of full non-transferable and non-refundable payment. Nottingham Art Studio reserves the right to withdraw the course. In this eventuality, you will be notified and fully refunded. No refunds can be given for any sessions not attended.
Chinese painting is done in three main styles, these are Freestyle, Integrated style and Gongbi style. In this course we hope to explore each of these styles with some of the main subject matter of bird and flower, landscape, animals and still life.
Taught by master artists in Florence, Robin Perko captures realistic emotive portraits that accurately represent form, space and most importantly the character of the sitter. Using knowledge accumulated from generations of artists, you will have the opportunity to receive the skills necessary to complete a beautiful portrait from life. Your training will be divided into 3 developmental projects, ‘The value of the cast’, ‘Portrait in Noir’ and ‘Black and Blue’. A materials list will be provided. Places are limited.
Taught by master artists in Florence, Robin Perko captures realistic emotive portraits that accurately represent form, space and most importantly the character of the sitter. In the run up to Robin putting on a series of workshops at the Nottingham Society of Artists, he will be putting on a free demonstration of his oil portrait painting techniques. Follow Robin and see his work online on Facebook at Paint slosher. or Instagram at instagram.com/paintslosher.
Try your hand at Chinese Brush Painting, as this simple method uses a few basic brush stokes from calligraphy. These form the underlying structure of flowers, birds and landscapes in a style known as Free style . On the course you will learn how to write your name in Chinese characters and the date and year. This simple method uses a few basic brush strokes from calligraphy to write names or form structures such as flowers and birds.
Try your hand at Chinese Brush Painting, as this simple method uses a few basic brush stokes from calligraphy. These form the underlying structure of flowers, birds and landscapes in a style known as Free style . On the course you will learn how to write your name in Chinese characters and the date and year. This simple method uses a few basic brush strokes from calligraphy to write names or form structures such as flowers and birds.
In the morning you'll create a collagraph printing plate, carving, scoring and stopping out the surface. You'll use adhesives to add materials to the surface and then seal the plate with shellac. In the afternoon you'll learn to "ink up" and polish back your plate. Then you'll print your collagraph on a press, making several images to take home.
This is an introduction to pastel painting. We'll talk about papers, types of pastels, pastel pencils etc. and take a brief look at pastel painting techniques. There will be a demonstration and if you wish to bring your own pastels and paper, you can work on the same subject, or if you prefer you can just watch the demo.
A chat about the pros and cons of painting with Acrylics and demonstrations on my approach to painting. There will be an opportunity for those who wish, to have a go at using Acrylic paints (provided)
Shooqi is a well-known painter and graphic designer. His recent solo exhibition at the NSA was very successful and well received. He will be painting a harbour view with boats, using photographs as references.
Try your hand at Chinese Brush Painting, as this simple method uses a few basic brush stokes from calligraphy. These form the underlying structure of flowers, birds and landscapes in a style known as Free style . On the course you will learn how to write your name in Chinese characters and the date and year. This simple method uses a few basic brush strokes from calligraphy to write names or form structures such as flowers and birds.
This will introduce use of a tablet computer for creating a picture using the Autodesk Sketchbook app. There will be an overview and a demonstration, followed by a general discussion - something for both beginners and those who've already tried tablet drawing. No materials are required but bring your tablet and/or smartphone if you want. You can install and try out a free limited version of Sketchbook or the full version for a few pounds from your tablet's app store.
In the morning, using rhenalon plates and simple intaglio engraving methods, you'll create an etched image ready to print. In the afternoon you'll learn how to "ink up" and print your plates on a press. Several images can be printed to take home.
This morning session will cover the basic techniques for beginners and move on to more advanced, wet on wet techniques. Using stretched watercolour paper we will paint blended skies and flowing, imaginative flowers.
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