Detail from original oil painting by Peter 2021

Having successfully started a couple of new courses please find the next courses that are due to start in November and January 2022 below:

Northwood Village Hall

‘Water Mills & Windmills’

Northwood Village Hall, 5^th November 10 to 12.30pm, £75.

‘Drawing, Painting & Placing Figures in Paintings’

Northwood Village Hall, 21^st January 10 to 12.30pm, £TBC.

 

Bembridge Village Hall

‘Rooftops & Skylines’

Bembridge Village Hall, 4^th November 10 to 12.30pm, £75.

‘Coastal Villages (viewed from the sea)’

Bembridge Village Hall, 20^th January 10 to 12.30pm, £75.

If you wish to attend any of these courses including one-to-one sessions please use the contact form on this blog.

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨

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 🎨

Painting Mountains and Valleys - February 2018

Kate working on her original oil painting

I have just completed teaching the course 'Painting Mountains and Valleys' at Northwood WI Hall.  The twelve students and I studied and discussed different artists' work in the past on the subject.  As there were a few new students I decided to do a recap of composition skills, atmospheric perspective as well as defined and soft edges.  We then spent a good proportion of time looking at how to paint snow including creating warm and cool snow mixes.  This gave every student a good base to create their own mountain or valley painting. 

Their beautiful paintings are shown here and I am proud that each student's painting portrays their own individual style - including 1930s poster art to Expressionist art.

Original oil painting by Kate 2018

Original oil painting by Laraine 2018

Original oil painting by Sandra 2018

Original acrylic painting by Caroline 2018

Original oil painting by Andrew 2018

Original oil painting by Peter 2018

Original acrylic painting by Liz 2018

Original oil painting by Pam 2018

Thank you to all the students who attended this course and made it such a success!  Not all the students work is shown here and I would like to thank Susan, Anne, Rosemary and Brian for also attending the course.  

If you would like to attend one of my classes or have one-to-one lessons please use the contact form on this blog.  There is another 'Mountains and Valleys' course coming up shortly at Bembridge Village Hall starting Thursday 1st of March 2018 10:00-12:30 (open medium) course fee £70.

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨

Painting Evening and Night Skies

Original oil painting by Jean 2017

I have just finished teaching a four week course on painting evening and night skies.  The class was packed and the atmosphere was both boisterous at times and also silent with avid concentration at other times. 

Firstly we looked at colour mixes for night skies with each student mixing up their own variations and then we moved onto to warmer and brighter evening sky mixes.  For the actual paintings themselves the students used their own photographs which I always recommend as you invest more into the subject matter. 

As always there was a mix of beginners and intermediates. The painting above is Jean's fifth painting and her very first painting in oils.  I am sure you will agree that it is a fantastic painting as are the rest of the group's wonderful work.  Please take a moment to look at their wonderful paintings below:

Original oil painting by Simonne 2017

Original oil painting by Kevin 2017

Original pastel painting by Mandy 2017

Original oil painting by Cathy 2017

Original acrylic painting by Julie 2017

Original oil painting by Diana 2017

Original pastel painting by Mandy 2017

Original oil painting by Meryel 2017

Unfinished painting by Maria 2017

Original watercolour painting by Tere 2017

Original watercolour painting by Tere 2017

Original acrylic painting by Julie 2017

Unfinished oil painting by John 2017

Original oil painting by Meryel 2017

Original oil painting by Liz 2017

Thank you to all the students who made the course successful and for allowing me to share their work on my blog.  As you can see all the paintings are very good in their own right even those that are still unfinished.  A special mention goes to Geoff whose work is not shown here.  

If you would like to join one of my art classes please use the contact form on this blog and I will get back to you asap.  New courses coming up will be starting in January/February 2018! I will post the details of upcoming courses next month.

Happy Painting!!

Lee 🎨