Leisure Painting Classes

Returning to Art, I found some great classes at the Art Academy East in Dereham, Norfolk. The classes are simple painting classes and the technique is not so complicated either, which is great. All it needs is a little colour theory and look at the results...!


This one was painted with just two complimentary (opposite) colours, yellow and purple, with white for tone and an under-painting of Raw Sienna, a red-brown. So effective!

 

This one is painted with three colours: Windsor Blue (greenish-blue), Chrome Yellow, Raw Sienna. The under-painting is a hot rose-pink colour which give the painting a contemporary impression.

 

The challenge here is that yellow is quite a transparent colour. It took a few attempts to get the lemons to look solid but not to look like they were floating some way above the plate!

This is my own sketch of a misty scene at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. There was no under-painting which works too because this is misty scene, the white underneath is already a good choice and shows through giving lightness to the scene...

 

Another landscape but this time with an under-painting - a really bright green. I was told this would create a very calm effect and it really does! The sky is quite greenish with Windsor Blue, already greenish, painted over green. The green shows through the shadows too.  It definitely unifies the colours.

 

A typically appealing image, a flamenco dancer. The colours here are Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna, Pthalo Green, White and a Yellow Ochre underpainting.  Raw Sienna and Crimson with white create nice flesh tones.

 

A water colour instead of acrylics. 

This used the three "earth primaries": Yelllow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Paynes Grey.

 

Another go at my own choice of subject. Two Snipe, photographed from Tower Hide of RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. The colours are Ultramarine Blue (hot blue, very purplish), Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre. The under-painting is very dark blue.

 

Creative skies!

Four combinations of colours. Red-Yellow, Red-Crimson, Red-Blue, Blue-Green.

 

Using a palate knife to make skies...

 

Xmas! 

Challenege here: to create the effect of shine and gloss.We were told to use high contrast by placing the white highlights and deep shadows close together.

 

Xmas - Splatter for snow! 

A warm choice of colours over a very dark under-painting: Raw Sienna, Crimson, Ultramarine Blue. Palate knife and toothbrush to create the forground.

 

Painting from the imagination... The Northern Lights. 

Just two colours and White: Bright Green and Purple.