ABOUT THIS COURSE

Foundations in Water Colour: Landscape offers an opportunity to those who have completed Level 1( beginners) to advance to the next stage.
During this 6 week course we will look at expanding your understanding, and developing your techniques, on the following topics, all in specific relationship to LANDSCAPE . Generally, we will discuss, briefly, by way of revision, the Level 1 course, what we did, and how it applies to this Landscape course.

1 Stretching, justification and framing paper.
2 Understanding landscape, and its application in pictorial art.
3 Planning, setting up and executing a water colour. Set up, first layers, mid tones and finishing
4 Demonstration and practice of glazing. 5 Arial perspective.
6 Linear perspective.
7 Pictorial composition.
8 Preview of goache, Cor, and other water colours, and binders. 9 Studio practice and en plein air practice.
10 Advanced techniques.
11 Brief discussion of the theory and practice of art criticism.

If you’re interested in progressing your watercolour painting & drawing skills but would rather focus on Bontanics & Nature please see YANNY PETTERS - WATERCOLOUR PAINTING COURSE

Materials needed

BRUSHES:

PAPER: two (2) sheets Arches 300gsm, cold pressed, halved, and two (2) sheets Arches 640gsm, cold pressed, cut down into eighths.

BRUSHES: a range of brushes will be used, from small rounds to larger rounds, hakes, scrubbers, flat mops and pointed mops. These should be in squirrel hair, goat hair, sable and synthetic mix. If you are in doubt as to what exactly suits you best, you may like to hold off your choices and discuss them with me, further, at the first class.

PAINTS: the list of paints is the same as those for Foundations course, all at artists’ level professional grade. Buy your own to fill up the palette, or come back to me for fills at the listed rates.

PALLETE: the plastic palette you worked with in the first class is ideal for the work we will be doing, but please exercise your own judicious choice if you are happier with another type of palette that suits you.

WATER CONTAINERS: the collapsible plastic water lanterns are still the preferred option ( two (2) at least). If you have had bad luck with leaks, maybe try a different supplier like Kennedy’s or Evans. The failures maybe just the luck of the draw.

BOARDS: Two (2) birch ply drawing boards @ 10mm thick, 61cm x 43cm. This size will take a half sheet of paper with a 2.5cm border all round to take tape for stretching. Woodworkers on Mount Tallant Avenue, Harolds Cross will cut them to size for you. They will also deliver to you.
The reasoning behind two (2) boards is this; one will have a half sheet stretched on it with a current subject, which will remain so for at least half the course, when it will be replace with another, to remain there for the duration. The other board will be used in class to next class, with various works pinned or taped with masking tape on it, and, of course, can and will be used for other finished work, just taped or stretched also, as the case may be.

Masking fluid and Jakar ruling pen.

Roll of gummed paper.

Meet Neil

During my childhood in Cork, I enjoyed watercolour painting.  Later, in architecture college, I studied architectural rendering in watercolour.  I took up painting consistently when I retired from practice.  I was selected for membership of the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 2018 and in September, 2021 I was awarded the Dr Pat McCabe Perpetual Trophy of the Society. My works are in private collections in Ireland and around the world.