Watercolour Weekends

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Watercolour Week

Held at Loxley Hall in the Hope Valley in the Peak District National Park.

The watercolour week allows for more time on location in the landscape. The principles and practice of watercolour painting are covered on this course. Demonstrations by the tutor in the landscape allow individuals to review their own approach to building up and completing a picture on site. Working out of doors does not mean less time for tuition. Demonstrations, group exercises and individual tuition are given to support understanding and learning on site and in the studio.  

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Programme Topics

Refinement of perception; Risk thinking; Positive self talk; Setting learning objectives; Observation; listening to what the landscape is telling you; Light and colour; Shadows and shade; Perspective-convergence, foreshortening, proportion, diminution, curvature, repetition, multiple vanishing points; Tone values; Colour mixing with a limited palette; Variegated washes; Counterchange/interchange; Recession; Reflections; Texture; Composition-principality, consistency, continuity, harmony, contrast, radiation; Negative shapes in painting; Control of water; Learning from success and Reviewing to improve.

Tuition fee: £160 per person.