This week you will be painting in the landscape, exploring the use of drawing, tonal painting and colour. This way of working comes from a long tradition in european art. The relationship between painting and drawing is fascinating, and a better understanding of it will improve your painting skills.
You will learn how making even the briefest of preliminary drawings can help produce more satisfying end results. You will be using drawing materials (like chalk, pastel and charcoal) and making tonal underpaintings which, through the use of colour, are then developed into finished paintings.
Oil and acrylic best suit this week. The emphasis is on working outside, but Paul's teaching also includes some sessions in the studio and practical demonstrations. Paul also likes to put his teaching into an art historical context, and so as part of the week you will explore the methods, materials and techniques of great landscape artists like Corot.
Paul has received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and is a Royal West of England Academician. As a painter and printmaker he has exhibited regularly in Britain and Europe, and in 2005 was artist-in-residence at the National Art School in Sydney. He is co-author of “Foundation Course : Drawing” published in 2004 by Cassell, and will feature in a forthcoming series of DVD’s on various aspects of painting and drawing to be published by Pickwick. Until recently he was head of painting at Cheltenham School of Art , and is co-founder of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, an event with which he is still very much involved.