Mixed media - painting and drawing the landscape
This dynamic course will introduce you to a variety of materials including, charcoal, ink, watercolour, pigments, and oils and encompasses how to use, combine, and layer these materials. You will explore working on location in the landscape as well as from moving images onscreen and digital photographs, to create a series of abstracted studies of a landscape.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor Melanie Rose and workshop overview
Getting Started
Workshops
Getting Started
- Health and safety, materials, tools and equipment.
Workshops
- Exploring your materials
- Landscape studies from video
- Planning your final composition
- Painting a series of final studies
- Ideas going forward
- Walking and drawing in the landscape
- Enjoy your materials and making
Course includes:
You will need:
Equipment and tools
Materials
Optional
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Equipment and tools
- Water pot
- A palette or plate to mix paints and pigments in
- A table
- An easel (if you have one)
- Hairdryer (if you have one)
- Twigs, feathers, teasels, bamboo for drawing
- Paintbrushes including mop head or large Chinese watercolour brushes
Materials
- Willow charcoal (a range of different thicknesses: thin, medium and thick)
- Putty rubber
- Soft Graphite stick, 6 B and 9B
- Charcoal pencil
- Soft pastels, a selection of colours and at least 3-4
- Water soluble graphite/charcoal
- Powdered graphite
- Five sheets of A2 and one A3 pad of hot press smooth cartridge paper or watercolour paper
- Fixative (or hairspray)
- Drawing ink – soluble or permanent
- Watercolour paint: pans or tubes, or gouache paints (whatever you prefer using)
- Rags or kitchen towel
- Masking tape (used to secure when working on sheets of paper)
Optional
- Fine liner pen
- Natural Pure pigments
- Gum Arabic
- Oil paints
- Low odour solvent such as Zest-it if using oil paints
- Linseed oil
- Prepared board (painted in white emulsion/acrylic/gesso in advance of the course)
- Canvas board
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Tutor
Melanie Rose
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