Sponge and Painting Knife Paintings - May 2016

Original Sponge Acrylic Painting by Kevin 2016

Continuing from my last blog post on Intuitive Painting over the following two weeks we did sponge paintings and then painting knife.  Although the sponge paintings took longer than the finger-paintings the results of the sponge paintings were excellent.  All of us agreed the reason why the paintings took longer was because there was such a wide range of sponges to use.  

The wealth of different types of sponge included - natural sea sponges (coarse and silk) and man-made including cellulose sponges, make up sponges (eye make up sponges were especially good), bath sponges, washing up sponges etc.  

During the last week of the course many of the students tackled painting knife and the results were equally as successful as the finger and sponge paintings.  Thank you to everyone who took part in this course and made it possible! Please check out their fantastic paintings below:

 

Original Sponge Oil Painting by Pam 2016

Sponge Oil Study by Pam 2016

Original Oil Sponge Painting by Simonne 2016

Original Gouache Painting by Julie 2016

Original Acrylic Sponge Painting by Maria 2016

Original Oil Painting Knife Painting by Pam 2016

Original Oil Painting Knife Painting by Simonne 2016

Original Acrylic Painting Knife Painting by Vicki 2016

Original Acrylic Painting Knife Painting by Vicki 2016

Original Gouache Painting Knife Painting by Julie 2016

Original Acrylic Painting Knife Painting by Maria 2016

Thank you to all the students that have shared their work and also thank you to Cathy whose painting is still in progress.  Over the next few weeks I shall running an open themed workshop in Northwood.  In my next blog post I will share details of my upcoming private classes and my council courses.  If you would like to join a class or have private classes please use the contact form on this blog.

Happy Painting!

Lee 

Intuitive Painting (using fingers, sponges and painting knives) - April - May 2016

This is an exciting four week open medium course with an open theme where artists have the freedom to experiment by using their fingers, sponges or painting knives to create intuitive works of art.  In truth nearly all of the artists approached the first week with some trepidation.  Their fears that the course may be childlike or too basic were soon put aside when I showed them the relatively high standard of finger paintings from a previous course.  I was confident in their ability to surpass the work of the previous group and they proved this with the fantastic paintings they created which are shown in this blog post.

Week One: This was a week of experimenting with all three methods: fingers, sponges and painting knives. At the beginning of the class I demonstrated the various ways you can use parts of your hand to create different marks.  I then demonstrated how to use natural and man-made sponges.  We then moved onto various painting knives.  They were given the following handout:

Week one hand-out showing techniques

Week Two: Finger painting

Cathy finger painting with oils

Original oil finger painting by Cathy 2016

Original acrylic painting by Maria 2016



Maria finger painting with acrylics

Original acrylic finger painting by Maria 2016

Original acrylic finger painting by Maria 2016

Original acrylic finger painting by Julie 2016

Original oil finger and sponge painting by Simonne 2016

Original oil finger painting by Simonne 2016

Original oil finger painting by Pam 2016

In my next blog post I will share with you the sponge paintings from this week's class.  Thank you to all the wonderful artists who allowed me to share their work and a big thank you also to Malai and Kevin.

My next course this term is due to commence Friday 3rd June 2016 from 10.00 to 12.00 for three weeks at Northwood WI Hall.  This will be primarily used as a workshop for artists to bring unfinished work along for guidance and tutoring whilst they complete them.  If you would like to join the course please use the blog contact form below.

Happy Painting!

Lee

Painting Trees and Woodlands Scenes - April 2016

Gouache Painting by Jean 2016

I recently finished teaching a four week course on Painting Trees and Woodland Scenes. This was enjoyed by all that took part.  Students had the freedom to choose their own medium (watercolour, acrylic, oil, gouache etc) which I think made their work even more confident and expressive in it's execution. 

The body of work produced overall was of a very high standard and perhaps the highest that I have seen from recent courses.  The paintings on this blog post are some of the work created by my fabulous students on the course.

Acrylic Painting by Gaye 2016

Oil Painting on Cardboard by Laraine

Oil Painting by Farzeen 2016

Oil Painting by Lolly 2016

Acrylic Painting by Diana 2016

Oil Painting by Liz 2016

Oil Painting by Pam 2016

Thank you to all the above Artists for sharing their work on the blog. A big thank you  to Pauline, Barbara, Stuart, Pam and Sue who also contributed to the success of the the course.  

The next four week course for this particular group will be in September at All Saints Church Ryde.  If you would like to book a place please use the blog contact form below.

Happy Painting!

Best wishes

Lee