'Palette Knife Pastels'

FD1MM

Student Experience Level: All Students

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Exploring an alternative way to apply and fix pastels for glassless framing of the artwork. We will explore the use of mediums to create textured pastel artworks on canvas and boards using a palette knife application technique.

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The resultant artwork will look and feel very different to traditional pastel methods, however it is a method of worthy exploration for those times when we simply wish to play with alternative work processes.

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A great experience if you wish to push boundaries and put extreme fun back into your arts practice.

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Every step will be demonstrated so that the entire approach can be seen. This demonstration will be executed in real time as well as having pre-prepared stages on display to show each step while the drying process occurs.

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*information subject to change*

'Creating relaxed Gardenscapes with ease'

XW2

Student Experience Level: Some experience needed

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Learn a wonderful way to paint gardens that possess an abundance of blooms and foliage and yet is devoid of things contrived or formal. The challenge is to create a garden-scape painting that is designed and considered and yet present as casual and relaxed. In this workshop you will be exposed to ideas and methods that will lead you to create the relaxed garden. Come prepared to leave neatness to one side as you fill your surfaces with an abundance of plants.

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Together we shall visit solid principles of design, composition, colour rhythms, use of variety, minimizing overload and much more.

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My early childhood was filled to overflowing with garden visits and so a natural love for them is a part of the fabric that makes me who I am today.

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Watch as I demonstrate and show the ‘how’ of the process so that you can then proceed armed with ideas, techniques and passion.

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'Establishing Speed Limits - Creating interesting ways to move within a painting'

TW2

Student Experience Level: Some experience needed

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Learn the art of moving viewers through your artwork at a predetermined pace, stopping the viewer at points of engagement and then moving them on at a slow, medium or fast pace to adjacent and surrounding areas of your painting. How exciting to be able to able to control the speed with which the viewer travels throughout your paintings. Approximately just 4 seconds is spent at each painting on display – using specific techniques, you may just be able to hold your viewers longer than the average and thereby potentially engage them enough for them to want to take your piece home as part of their personal collection.

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Together we shall discuss holding techniques, movement marks and tonal shifts, colour ploys along with composition and design ideas all aimed to direct eye movement.

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Let’s explore this debate and challenge ourselves to be the creators of artworks that hold the viewers exactly where we want them to be positioned.

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*information subject to change*