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Everyone can
draw. DP1
An introduction to Drawing and Visual
Excitement. If you can see, then you can draw. Participants will examine
ways of establishing and developing drawing skills whilst increasing
visual awareness and making artistic decisions.
Moving on to painting. DP2
Establishing skills in looking, seeing, investigating personal style
and introducing painting techniques.
Colourwork. DP3
An introduction to Painting and Working with Colour that builds on observational
and interpretational skills, the course will introduce Participants to
utilise and exploit colour to generate feeling, atmosphere and emotion
in visual work.
Drawing for Painting. DP4
Drawing and observation as a way of understanding the nature of the subject.
Field studies are often the starting point for later works that may vary
in size, material or interpretation. This course will help Participants
to evaluate visual possibilities for studies made with the intention
of taking the image further.
Water, Skies, Fields and Trees. DP5
Analytical and interpretive studies of natural features. We help you
find your way to render and interpret these features through careful
observation and a range of techniques.
Earth,
Wind, Fire and Water. DP6
The natural landscape and its' atmosphere offers an enduring subject
for many artists. Participants will establish a range of skills, both
practical and intellectual that help and allow them to translate and
create an 'equivalent' in their work that is the result of their visual
experiences.
Abstraction and developing ideas. DP7
Artists have always looked for an individual and unique approach
to making images. Although observation is often the chosen route of
image making, direct representation of the subject is but one way of
relating that experience to others. Participants will gain insight
into understanding the work of artists whose images appear distant
and inaccessible, whilst establishing their own way of seeing.
Drawing and Painting from the Heart.
DP8
Works that come from inside and reflect our emotions and feelings
are modified by what we see and how we respond. With subject matter
taken from direct observation, previous drawings or even from memory,
Participants will be encouraged to examine their own awareness to produce
images that provoke a direct emotional response in the viewer.
Computers for Artists.
CA1
Artists are increasingly finding the use of computers
stimulates new and exciting creative possibilities. You need no previous
experience in computers to explore for yourself the use of the best
applications including 'Illustrator', 'Painter' and Photoshop'.
Skyros Participants Weekend. SP1
A weekend course for ex-Participants. We can’t guarantee the
sun of Greece or Thailand, but the memories will be good and
the company wonderful. We’ll also get to grips with the
artistic issues, techniques and skills that are important
wherever an easel is set up.
Open College of the Arts Weekend. OC1
A practical workshop and a chance to meet fellow students to
discuss issues and ideas that are contained in OCA courses,
in particular: Drawing, Drawing in Colour and Watercolour Painting
Walking with Artists
It’s fine to expect to find the best landscapes within 10 metres
of the car park, but rarely likely. Our guided ‘Walking with
Artists ’ will
take you off the beaten track and into the most delightful rolling
Cotswold countryside. We’ll walk through intimate
copses and woodland that open up into broad vistas over the Severn
Vale to the distant Welsh Mountains. Although it’s a bit hilly,
our short, relaxed walks of around 5 miles (with a lunch stop at a
country pub) allow plenty of opportunities to stop and make preliminary
studies, that can be later worked on in the studio.
(see our 'Walking' page for walk descriptions)
Technique
Workshops. TW11
These
practical courses look at specific materials, exploring their qualities
and use.
Our 2 day courses investigate 2 different media:
1. Painting in Watercolour
Watercolour is one of the most natural and popular ways of painting.
It can offer flexibility and spontaneity with some wonderful, gestural
effects.
2. Painting in Acrylic
This simple to use, versatile and popular medium presents the artist
with a rich vocabulary of finishes from thin and transparent washes
to rich impasto.
3. Painting in Oil
The traditional painting medium, that is highly adaptable and manipulable.
We examine different approaches, techniques and finishes while working
from the landscape, still life or model.
4. Pastel Work
Pastel is an ideal medium for working from nature.
Our workshop will introduce you to this expressive medium with its’ richness
of mark coupled with exciting spontaneity.
5. Working with Collage
Investigate this exciting medium that exploits the use of cut, torn
and found materials to create powerful and graphic images.
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