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Plein Air - Vancouver Parks
Jul
10
Watercolour Landscape Painting

Plein Air - Vancouver Parks

Plein Air

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Watercolour Landscape Painting Outside

Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. (Location to be confirmed)

Date: July 10th

Time: Wednesday 10:00Am-3:00PM

Price: $99 (one day session)

Enjoy the spontaneous process of watercolour painting from life, outside this summer in Vancouver parks.

Brush drawing

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world.

During the month of July and August, I plan to offer a series of LIVE “Plein Air” (painting outdoors) workshops where we meet in Vancouver Park locations in the lower mainland.

Session 1 - July 10th

Quick Studies

The emphasis will be to work at your studies quickly, responding to nature by looking and recording what you see.

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world. Translate the complexities of nature into abstractions of a tree shape and form, find the patterns in shrubbery and foliage, the variety of colour in flowers. Pull it all together into a composition, using leading lines and the division of space within a landscape scene.

North Shore Vancouver

This course includes an introduction to the following skills and techniques for watercolour sketching Plein Air

Observational Drawing

Learn the basics of drawing what you see

  • Observational drawing

  • Explore composition: Thumbnail drawing sketch compositions of the landscape surroundings

  • Tonal value: Translate drawing to monochromatic studies

  • Working with colour: Using key attributes of colour appearance - determine hue, saturation and value in your work

  • Painting techniques: Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Painting techniques

Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Travel light: Bring your travel box-set of watercolours, watercolour paper sketchbook, water brushes, bull clips to hold sketchbook paper and a fold away chair. Supply details on registration.

A maximum of six participants per class. Please email for information if you are interested in taking this series of classes.

Bring supplies you like to work with.

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