Principles of Painting online course of 5 sessions

Product Description

Unlock your creative potential this year with Helen Alice Johnson, a professional artist and experienced art teacher, who will guide you through a fun, relaxed, and pressure-free online painting experience. Whether you're a complete beginner, aspiring amateur, or a fellow professional, this bundle of five online sessions will help you develop your skills in painting like the Impressionists and painting like the Renaissance. Concentrating on two main artists, Monet from the Impressionist period and Chardin from the Renaissance, we will study their techniques and skill with a paint brush!

There will be a demonstration in Oil paints, but due to time restraints of the course, we will use acrylic from the comfort of your home. You’ll have the freedom to explore your creativity, express yourself within a structured framework, and create your own colourful masterpiece! There will be homework, to enable this course to be fully successful within the time frame, but it will be fun too!

Helen, a former headteacher and professional artist, provides expert guidance. OFSTED once praised her leadership: "The key to the centre’s overall improvement is the headteacher’s firm leadership and her skill in inspiring, encouraging, and working with the staff."

Session Breakdown:

Session 1: Ebauche Underpainting

• Underpainting technique – Ebauche (as used by the Impressionists – including Monet

• Planning and mapping out an image onto the canvas using the Ebauche technique

• Adding colour over the top of the underpainting

• Creating shape and form through colour

Session 2: - Ebauche overpainting and finishing off

• Developing detail in an Impressionistic style

• Continuing to add detail through paint and colour

• Creating and developing impressionistic style through brush techniques

• Creating the final painting

Session 3: - Underpainting technique using a Renaissance method

• Using a ‘cartoon’ to transfer a drawing onto canvas

• Creating a tonal painting using only one colour

Session 4: - Adding detail

• Adding detail to the underpainting using coloured paint

• Creating tonal values and colour contrasts to emphasise the image

Session 5: Finishing off

• Continuing to add details to the painting to create a finished piece

Product Features:

• Bundle: 5 individual online sessions (1 hour each) as well as homework and recorded videos of each session so you can go back over them as often as you like.

• Additional videos explaining techniques, or demonstrating a particular method of painting.

• Medium: Acrylic Paints as well as a demonstration on the use of oils

• Style: Two very different but similar painting techniques from art history. Suitable for beginners, amateurs, and fellow professionals.