Upcoming courses for 2019 & Expressive Autumn Scenes

Upcoming Course Dates for 2019

All 4 week courses cost £70

Northwood Village Hall, Friday 25th January 1st, 8th & 15th February at 10 to 12.30pm
Painting Castles & Forts (In use or ruins)

Bembridge Village Hall, Thursday 31st January 7th, 14th & 21st February 10 to 12.30
Painting Bridges, Rivers & Streams

Ryde All Saints' Church, Friday March 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th at 12.30 to 3pm
Painting Fishing Villages


Expressive Autumn Scenes

Expressive Autumn Scenes was a four week course which ended in late November.  The aim of the course was to explore using different painting techniques to create expressive, intuitive and atmospheric paintings.  Firstly we looked at visual impact such as using high tone and low tone colours.  We then looked at ways of making gestural marks, brushwork and using painting knives.  Below you can see examples of these techniques:

Below is the student's work which encompasses all the aspects of the course, i.e. being expressive, intuitive and atmospheric.  

Original Oil Painting by Pam - capturing the atmospheric

Original Oil Painting by Lolly - capturing the expressive

Original Oil Painting with Mixed Media by Lolly - capturing the intuitive

Original Acrylic Painting by Cathy

Original Oil Painting by Diana - unfinished

Original Acrylic Painting by Gaye

Original Oil Painting by Jo

Original Oil Painting by Meryel

Original Acrylic Painting by Geoff

Original Oil Painting by Jo

Original Oil Painting by Tracy

Original Oil Painting by John

Original Oil Painting by Jo

Original Oil Painting by Jean

Original Oil Painting by Simonne

Original Acrylic Painting by Maria - unfinished

Thank you to all the students that allowed me to share their work on the blog and for making the course such a success!

If you would like to join any of the upcoming courses or have 1-2-1 classes please use the contact form on this page.

Happy Painting & Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

Lee 🎨

Seascapes and Lighthouses Art Course - October 2018

Original gouache painting by Jean 2018

I have just completed a four week art course on painting Seascapes and Lighthouses.  We started by looking at and discussing famous lighthouse paintings ranging from Carl Blechen to Edward Hopper. 

We then talked about creating a sense of scale and how to go about doing so within the composition.  This can be achieved in a few ways - the best way is the most obvious which is to either put a figure or house, perhaps a boat into the composition to show how tall and wide some lighthouses are.  As well as looking at scale we looked a reflections on the water surface and also in mixing up general sky and sea colours.  

It was a very successful course and the results of the course can be seen below:

Original acrylic painting by Diana 2018

Original oil painting by Jo 2018

Original unfinished pastel painting by Mandy 2018

Original oil painting by Gordon 2018

Original oil painting by Jo 2018

Original painting by Liz 2018

Original pastel with texture by Mandy 2018

Original oil painting by Jo 2018

Original oil painting by Jean 2018

Original unfinished acrylic painting by Kevin 2018

Original oil painting by Meryel 2018

Original oil painting by Simonne 2018

Original oil painting by Jo 2018

Original pastel painting by Mandy 2018

Original oil painting by Simonne 2018

Original unfinished acrylic painting by Maria 2018

Thank you to all those who made the course a success and for sharing their work on this post.  

If you would like to join any of my future courses or have one-to-one tuition please contact me using the blog form below. New Courses begin again late January 2019.

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨

Cliffs, Sand and Sea Paintings October 2018

Original Watercolour Painting and Colour Mixes by Sue

Welcome to the new academic year and a new course of Cliffs, Sand and Sea.  As you know my classes are open to beginners and more experienced artists.  On this course I was delighted to have two new beginners.  

As usual we started off by looking at examples by famous artists.  We discussed techniques, colour mixes and looked at various sand and cliff samples collected from Isle of Wight beaches.  Over the course of the four weeks the students produced a wide range of paintings using various mediums such as oil, watercolour and acrylic.  

The wonderful paintings created by the class are seen below including my own:

Original Watercolour Painting by Sue

Original Oil Painting by Sandra

Original Oil Painting by Peter

Original Oil Painting by Pam

Original Oil Painting by Laraine

Original Acrylic Painting by Liz

Original Oil Painting by Andrew

Unfinished Original Oil Painting by Kate

Original Acrylic by Anne

Original Oil Painting by Lee Papworth

Thank you to all the artists who have shared their work on the blog.  Thank you to everyone who attended and made the course such a success!  

The new course starts in Northwood in January 2019.  If you are interested in taking part or would like one to one classes please contact me using the blog form.

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨