Ruins and En Plein Air Paintings - Isle of Wight Art Classes

Original acrylic painting by George 2021

I recently completed a  successful four week course on Ruins and Derelict Buildings.  There were six talented artists that attended the course and their excellent work can be found below.

Original oil painting by Maria 2021

Original oil painting by Helen 2021

Unfinished original oil painting by Pam 2021

Unfinished acrylic painting by Kevin 2021

Also during June and July I organised many en plein air sessions including trips to Bonchurch, Ventnor Botanical Garden, Quarr Abbey and St Helens Church in Nettlestone. These outside events proved very popular and extremely successful.  There will be more coming up throughout September. 

Students enjoying an en plein air session at St Helens

Sketch by Dana during an en plein air session

My next post will give details of upcoming courses and en plein air sessions.  Watch this space!

Happy Painting!!

Lee Papworth 🎨

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 🎨

Updated New Art Courses - September/October & November 2018

Original Oil Painting by Lee Papworth

I'm really looking forward to teaching the upcoming art courses!  All courses are open medium, so feel free to use any medium - oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastels and pencils etc.

See the list below for September, October and November's courses: 

4 week 'Cliffs, Sand & Sea' (open medium) Starts Friday 21st September 10 to 12.30pm at Northwood W.I. Hall (village hall), Northwood/Cowes, £70

4 week 'Lighthouses & Seascapes' (open medium) Starts Thursday 27th September, 

10 to 12.30pm at Bembridge Village Hall, Bembridge £70

1 Day 'Still life - Limited Palette' (open medium) Friday 2nd November 10.00 to 1.00pm at Northwood Village Hall (W.I. Hall), Northwood/Cowes, £35

4 week 'Painting Expressive Autumn Scenes' Starts Friday 9th November 12.30 to 3pm at Ryde All Saints' Church Hall, Ryde, £70

(Further courses and workshops to be announced)

If you would like to join any of the above art courses or would like further information please contact me via the blog form.  Beginners welcome. One-to-One classes/courses are also available.

Happy Painting!

Lee 🎨

Painting Cliffs, Sand and Sea - November 2017

Original oil painting by Sue H. 2017

I have just completed a four week painting course on painting cliffs, sand and sea.  Myself and the Learners began by looking at the various colours of cliff faces, sand and seaweed found on the Isle of Wight beaches.  

Each student mixed up their own versions of these colours which included everything from a beautiful magenta coloured seaweed from Ventnor beach to the subtle grey-blue colour of Blue Slipper clay from Lake Dunroamin beach.  

Next we discussed the influences of external elements such as sunlight, rain and wind on cliff faces, sand and sea.  The resulting paintings are excellent and were created by beginners to intermediate artists.  You can see the beautiful paintings below and I have added two paintings which were completed on a painting workshop in Northwood - as they fitted the theme nicely.

Original oil painting by Sue C. 2017

Original oil painting by Laraine 2017

Oil sketch by Meryel 2017 - see painting below

Oil painting by Meryel 2017

Original gouache painting by Jean N. 2017

Original oil painting by Simonne 2017

Original oil painting by Pam 2017

Original acrylic painting by Gaye 2017

Original painting by Sue H. 2017

Original oil painting by Meryel 2017

Original watercolour painting by Irene 2017

Original oil painting by Lolly 2017

Original oil painting by Liz 2017

Original unfinished oil painting by Diana 2017

Original oil painting by Jean 2017

Original oil painting by Simonne 2017

Thank you to everyone who made the course a success including Liz whose work is not shown above. 

Although the standard of all these paintings is high, please remember that some of these artists are beginners and all the artists are still learning.  My point is that if you wish to paint to this standard it is achievable as I will teach you the tools and techniques step by step.  Please do not be nervous or put off as you too can paint like this. You can contact me using the blog form below.

My next blog post will be about my upcoming courses in January 2018.  Private one-to-one classes are available all year round.

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 🎨