Our next MAS Workshop will be on Tuesday 11th June, 2024 on the subject of Abstracting Landscape with Hilary Reed as the tutor.
The workshop will be held at Llanelltyd Village Hall from 10.30.am to 4.00 pm. The cost will be £10.00 for members and £20 for non-members. Due to table availability numbers will be restricted to 15 on a first come first served basis.
In this workshop Hilary demonstrate some of her techniques and talk a bit about how she approaches landscape painting, her process, materials and methods. She will also discuss composition, contrast and colour. Participants will then move on to make their own abstracted landscapes.
If you have an image/photo of a favourite view use that as the basis of your painting, for example this could be a sunset, mountain view, rainy day, a strong horizon line or a lake with a boat in it. You can also use an image from a magazine that’s caught your eye. I will be bringing some images you could use as reference.
Things to bear in mind when choosing an image are: does it have strong shapes, is there a lot of contrast, are the colours vibrant or dramatic, does it inspire you, These are all good! We will not be concerning ourselves to much with fine details on plants etc.
Materials:
- Acrylic paint (because it dries quickly) – a range of colours but at the very least a blue, red and yellow with white and black. I will also bring my favourite colours and some acrylic medium to add to the paint to experiment with flow.
- Brushes – a range of sizes and shapes, big flat brushes if you have them! Also any other objects to make marks with so you can experiment, such as an old toothbrush, palette knives, rags etc.
- A palette/something to mix paint on and 2 jars or similar for water.
- Charcoal, oil pastels, pencils if you have them.
- 2 or more A3 sheets of all media paper suitable for wet paint or anything similar you have. Feel free to work larger! But not smaller… If you have thick cardboard or paper board this will need to be primed before the workshop (using 2 thin layers of white gesso or acrylic paint). You can use canvas board or unstretched canvas, whatever you have to hand that is suitable really. Thick water colour paper will need to be taped down on to a board.
- A small spray bottle of water (like you might use in the garden.)
- You can paint flat on a table or use a table easel/standing easel – whatever works for you.
Pictures from the Workshop
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