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 🎨