Learn to paint studio landscapes in oils more freely within a shorter space of time, mimicking the effect and drama of painting outdoors. Gain confidence and skills to paint landscapes/ seascapes from within a studio in the fast and loose ‘plein air’ style.
Improve your colour mixing and application of oil paint, reacting more instinctively to create a lively and fresh landscape paintings. This class is designed to give confidence working quickly and immediately for those with some experience of oil painting, who are looking to embrace a ‘plein air’ approach but in the comfort of the studio. Learn valuable techniques to help you simplify a scene and respond quickly, yet accurately with a focus on mixing colours from a limited palette.
Please bring along your own art materials, photo references of beautiful Westcountry Devon scenery will be provided but feel free to bring any high quality references of your own.
Maria Rose ROI has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil painters, South West Academy, the Chelsea Art Society, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the New English Art Club and the British Plein Air Painters. Maria has written articles for The Artist Magazine and was a contestant on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2018.
Maria was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 2023.
The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.
Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21
Bring your lunch and drinks.
Cost: £40 for Club Members…..to book your place click here
Materials to bring along… TBC
Bring your own reference images if preferred but I will provide high quality A4 prints of landscapes and seascapes for you to paint that you can use on the day.
Please bring a couple of small canvas boards or primed wooden panels, in a selection of different formats and sizes, bearing in mind smaller sizes are best suited to working fast like we will be e.g. 20 x 25cm, 24 x 30cm and 30 x 40cm. It helps to add a coloured mid-toned ground to work on, acrylic or thinned oil, to tone the panel. If toning the panel with oils, please do this a few days prior so that it is dry.
For oil painters- studio-safe thinners and any mediums you might usually use and dipper pots to pour them in.
A palette: sturdy wooden palettes are better than small plastic or paper ones.
Oil paints (it is fine if you don’t want to invest in artist quality to start with as they are expensive, but I generally find the tinting strength and colour depth better with artist quality). Acrylics are ok too, if that’s what you have. You will want a warm and cool of each primary, white, and some earth colours. My usual palette is generally as follows: Titanium White, Michael Harding Warm White, Naples Yellow, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Scarlett, Alizerin Crimson or Rowney Rose (quinacridone magenta), Viridian, Oxide of Chromium, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna. I also have Winsor Blue (Pthalo) and Cerulean on my palette but these aren’t essential.
Rags and/or kitchen roll
A variety of brushes
A mixture of sizes in both hog and synthetic in long flat, filbert, small round and a couple of watercolour riggers for detail. You can’t go wrong with a few filberts in sizes 2-6 if you want to keep it to a minimum
Not essential but bring if you have them:
Sketchbook and pencils
A palette knife