Painting And Personal Inspiration Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course is designed to help you take the next step with confidence in a constructive and inspirational environment. You will discover what it is about painting that really excites and inspires you. Whether you are interested in the language of painting, or certain subjects move you more than others, this course will take you step by step through an examination of this process of discovery.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for both beginners and more experienced learners, or anyone interested in why artists choose particular painting subjects and strategies.
Key information
Topics covered
- Basic understanding of the language of painting looking at colour, form, space and light
- How have artists taken each aspect of the language and pushed it to extremes? How is a Fauve painting different from an impressionist painting? How is Lucian Freud different from a Francis Bacon?
- Individually explore motivated projects that might involve contemporary painting approaches, painting from life, drawings or photographs, or using notetaking, found images or objects
- Life models, still life, interiors, or a view from a window, the street or the city
- Optional out of college assignments may also be set
Learning outcomes
- Have explored other artists techniques, approaches and subject matters
- Able to demonstrate some key painting techniques
- Have developed your confidence and personal style as a painter
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- 5 x A1 sheets of White Card (at least 300gsm thick)
- 500ml or 1000ml of White Gesso
- 1 x large 2"" (50mm) cheap house paint brush from any DIY store
- A mixture of various size nylon/hog hair or similar brushes (3 should be No.10 Large)
- 1 x palette knife (medium size - used for mixing colours)
- 2 x 2B and 2 x HB pencils
- Masking tape
- Cotton rags (e.g. old T-Shirts)
- Colour acrylic and oil paints
Please only use artist's quality from art supply shops like Atlantis European or CassArts (LIQUTEX/TRI-ART/GOLDEN) for acrylic paints
Basic Colours artists quality (do not buy student quality paint)
- Cadmium Lemon
- Cadmium Yellow
- Cerulean Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Prussian Blue
- Raw Umber
- Cadmium Red
- Alizarin Crimson
- Lamp Black
- Titanium White (Large tube)
Additional Colours (Optional)
- Viridian
- Magenta
- Yellow Ochre
- Indian Yellow Deep
- French Ultramarine
- Raw Sienna
- Transparent Oxide
For Health and Safety reasons, students are not allowed to bring any solvents to the studio. We will provide low-odour mineral spirits.
Any kind of spray products, turpentine or white spirits are banned from the building and the internal courtyard.
Further painting materials will be discussed as the course progresses.
Tutor
Guy Noble
Joe Richardson
Joe Richardson is a Cheltenham born multi-disciplinary artist working between painting, video, collage, audio and sculpture.
Richardson's works operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, the smashing of a glass, a character falling in a canal, a breakthrough in communication.
His works perform as double acts, facades, and stages 'that deconstruct everyday scenarios through repetition to the point of absurdity to produce purgatorial experiences of waiting, spaces of absurd nothingness, and the opportunity to navigate uncertainty'.
His recent projects include a solo exhibition at Cine-Window, Winsford, a duo show at FIVE YEARS, 'Pesaro Voeslauer' and a group show at London Lighthouse Gallery. Richardson also has a permanent display of video works available to view in the lobby of Universal Music, 4 Pancras Square (next to CSM).
Alongside his professional art practice, Richardson is a freelance tutor at UAL Short Courses and City Lit, teaching painting, drawing, and collage.
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