Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: 14 May 2025
  • Time: 05:00 - 07:00

Location

NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE
NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE
55, Westgate Road, Newcastle
Category

Date

14 May 2025

Time

10:00 - 12:00

Cost

£120.00

Painting field patterns, grasses and hedgerows

Creating open lanscapes with great depth often rrelies on your skill at painting field patterns, grasses and hedgerows. Jason has found a series of methods that speed up the production processes of making this kind of image, offering a logical, ordered way of layering up this kind of ‘expansive view’ watercolour.

This course aims to help understand how to make a believable structure within the landscape and grade the marks making so that the illusion of depth is cohesive.

The skills learnt on this course will help you create greater depth in all your landscape painting projects.

Medium

Watercolour

Level

This course would suit a relative beginner, and the more experienced painter who is looking to tune their painting skills.

Day, location and time

Wednesdays from 10:00 to 12:00 at Newcastle Arts Centre

Duration

8 weeks – see calendar

From the 14th of May 2025

Cost – £120

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Why does Jason think this course would be of value to you as a painter ?

This course will not only help you create realistic looking landscape images from life and photographs, but also enable you to begin to create expansive landscapes from your imagination.

What will you do on the course ?

  • Create a feeling of perspective within field patterns by following a few simple approaches – tonal depth, colour depth and steadily increasing sizes of fields, trees and hedges.
  • Look at creating a wide range of paint marks to mimic the look of grasses
  • Investigate ordering those marks from out of focus to in focus.
  • Explore painting grasses by thinking through the order of how the image is layered to gain maximum spatial depth
  • Putting all the ideas together in an ‘expansive landscape’ project

What do you need to bring ?

Please bring your usual watercolour painting kit to the first class, plus a misting water spray bottle. Please note that you will need to bring a drawing board and water pots as these are not provided at the centre.

You will also need to bring drawing paper, a pen and pencil, eraser and sharpener, some drawing paper, watercolour, paper to the first lesson as well as your painting kit.

If you are unable to purchase the course online then please send a cheque for £120

– made payable to; Painting with Skill to:

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. To avoid disappointment – book early.