New Art Courses for 2020

Oil painting by Terry 2019

I hope you had a good Christmas. These are my upcoming courses for 2020!

4 Week Painting Course 'Rainy Day Scenes' starting on Friday 24th January, 10:00 - 12:30pm at Northwood Village Hall, Northwood/Cowes, course fee £72

4 Week Painting Course 'Children in Art' starting on Thursday 30th January, 10:00 - 12:30pm at Bembridge Village Hall, Bembridge, course fee £70

3 Week 'Exploring Dot Art' Friday 13th March, 12:30 - 3:00pm at Ryde All Saints' Church Hall, Ryde, course fee £50 (tbc)

Other one day courses will be added during the term.  One to one classes are available.  If you would like to book onto a course or a one to one session please contact me using the blog form.

Happy New Year and Painting!

Lee Papworth

Upcoming Art Classes on Isle of Wight - September 2019

A hazy day in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight (photograph by T Papworth)

The following courses below are open to everyone: beginners, intermediates and experienced artists.  All courses are open medium - oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels, etc.  
Please bring your own materials (however, if you have none I can supply some on the first day).

'Painting Summer Haze/Autumn Fog Scenes' 
4 week painting course starting on Friday 20th September at 10:00 to 12:30 
Course fee: £72
Venue: Northwood WI Hall (Village Hall), Northwood, Cowes

'Rainy Day Scenes'
4 week painting course starting on Thursday 26th September at 10:00 to 12:30
Course fee: £70
Venue: Bembridge Village Hall, Bembridge

'Parisian Scenes'
4 week painting course starting on Friday 8th November at 12:30 to 3pm
Course fee: £72
Venue: All Saints' Church, Ryde

I will be arranging further courses such as: 'Mixed Media Portraits' and 'Still Life Painting.'

Alternatively if you are interested in one to one tuition please use the blog form to contact me.

Look forward to seeing you on my courses!

Happy Painting!!

Lee 🎨

Painting Bridges, Rivers and Streams Art Course

Original Acrylic Painting by Linda 2019

With the usual mix of students that are just starting painting to people that have been attending my classes for two or three years and some for perhaps four or five years, I think you will agree that all of them are splendid efforts - most of them excellent! 

Original Oil painting by Gordon 2019

Original Oil Painting by Jo 2019

Original Pastel Painting by Mandy 2019

Original Oil Painting by Simonne 2019

Original Oil Painting by Terry 2019

Unfinished Original Watercolour by Derek 2019

Original Oil Painting by John 2019

Unfinished Acrylic Painting by Trudie 2019

Original Oil Painting by Jean 2019

Original Oil Painting by Meryel 2019

Original Oil Painting by Jim 2019

Thank you for all the students who allowed their work to be shared on this post and to everyone who attended for making the course such a great success!

If you would like to attend one of my classes or have one-to-one tuition please use the contact form on this blog.

Happy Painting!

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 🎨

Painting Scenes from Abroad - June 2018 Art Course

Original oil painting in progress by Pam 2018

My latest course has recently just finished.  This was the exotic sounding 'Scenes from Abroad.'  All ten students rose to the challenge and provided paintings of scenes from as far afield as the Seychelles, Croatia, Spain, France and others.  

Although some these wonderful paintings are unfinished you can still get a sense of atmosphere, colour and vibrancy.  The results of the course are shown below:

Original pastel painting by Mandy 2018

Original unfinished acrylic painting by Kevin

Original gouache painting by Jean 2018

Original oil painting by Susan 2018

Original pastel painting by Mandy 2018

Original unfinished acrylic painting by Diana 2018

Original oil painting by Gordon 2018

Original acrylic painting by Trudie 2018

Thank you to everyone who shared their work on this post and also to the rest of the group.  You all made the course a great success!

If you would like to join one of my courses or have one-to-one tuition please use the blog contact form.

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 🎨