Painting Lighthouses - May 2018

Original Oil Painting by Liz 2018

I have just completed a four week art course on Painting 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, house or tree into the composition to show how tall and wide many 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 which I will be running again in September in Bembridge. The results of the course can be seen below:

Original Oil Painting by Liz 2018

Original Acrylic Painting by Trudie 2018

Oil Painting by Susan 2018

Oil Painting by Peter 2018

Original Oil Painting by Sandra 2018

Unfinished Oil Painting by Andrew 2018

Original Oil Painting by Laraine 2018

Original Oil Painting by Pam 2018

Thank you to all those who made the course a success and for sharing their work here.  Thank you to Brian and Anne whose work is not shown here.  You can see my effort at painting a lighthouse on my previous blogpost.

If you would like to join the next Painting Lighthouses Course please contact me using the blog form below.  

Upcoming courses for June are as follows:
4 Week Course - Painting Churches, Abbeys and Cathedrals - at Ryde All Saints Church
1 Day Workshop - Painting Still life Using a Limited Palette - in Bembridge

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨