Light, Through Colour (Weekend Workshop)

Without light there is no colour.

In painting, artists want to convey light, whether it is ambient or suffused, subtle or dramatic and focused, or involving shadows and reflections. Light describes form and is relevant to all figurative painting and many abstract paintings.

As painters we use pigment, so to create ‘light‘ we use colour – in the appropriate hues, tones and values.

By learning about colour and how to mix it and use it, we discover an incredible tool that is essential to help us achieve the effects we want to convey.

We will start at 10am and finish at 4pm each day.

This workshop involves exercises and adventures in exploring the enormous potential of using colour, in whatever media you choose for your main work, but please bring lots of rough paper and perhaps a variety of media to experiment with beforehand –  eg charcoal, pen and ink, collage, crayons, pastel and watercolour etc