SUNDAY 16th MAY 2010
Subject: Domestic Cat
Medium: Pastel
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Due to the bad snow in Feb, and a number of people having to cancel, Vic is holding another domestic cat workshop.
If you own cats, or are wanting to get into painting cat portraits, then why not try your hand at this workshop. Cats are perfectly suited to the pastel/velour combination, especially their soft fur. You will learn how to create realistic tabby markings and soft fur textures. In addition, there will be special emphasis in this workshop on the eyes, paying particular attention to the fine details of the eyes – the colours of the iris, and all important reflections and highlights. Use the techniques and skills learned in this workshop to paint your own, or your friends’ cat portraits. Suitable for all levels. Just bring you and your lunch!
SATURDAY 17th & SUNDAY 18th APRIL 2010
Subject: Zebra
Medium: Acrylic
Length: 2 day
Price: £100
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Most wildlife/animal artists like to try different mediums, myself included. One of the most popular mediums is, of course, acrylic. As with pastels, the choice of materials and surfaces is wide-ranging and sometimes confusing. Learn the techniques of creating finely detailed acrylic paintings in this workshop. Day one will focus on mixing colour to the correct consistency, masking off, underpainting and creating your background.
Day two will be spent on layering and refining the details of the subject, using ever smaller brushes, before adding those finishing touches, such as foreground, for added depth and realism. At the end of this weekend workshop, the whole process of painting wildlife in acrylic will be de-mystified. Just bring you and your lunch!
Subject: Workshop with Wolves
Medium: Pastel on velour paper
Length: 1 day
Price: £80
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: UK Wolf Conservation Trust, Beenham, Nr Reading Berkshire. RG7 5NT
Join Vic for a wild encounter with a difference. Spend the day at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, where your day will begin with a talk about wolves, the Trust and what they do to support wolf conservation. Then, a rare chance to meet and photograph the wolves at close range - the first of two photographic sessions, which will enable you to observe and gather some great reference material of the wolves in their winter coats for your own future paintings.
Leading up to lunch, follow Vic's expert tuition and guidance to begin your own pastel painting of one of the Trust's own wolves. No need to worry if you are unsure of your drawing skills, as the velour paper has a 'pencil' outline pre-printed onto it, so all you need to do is concentrate on the pastel painting. At lunchtime, there will be a chance to browse the shop to purchase souvenirs of the truly unique day, or just listen to the wolves howling.
After lunch, there will be the second photographic session, after which you will complete your pastel painting ready to take home and frame. All materials and light refreshments are included, we advise attendees to bring a packed lunch.
Please wear sensible footwear and bring warm clothes - the wolves won't need it! 40% from the workshop will be donated directly to UK WCT, to help support wolf conservation projects in Europe, so you will be helping a good cause as well as having fun!
WORKSHOPS
BOOKING INFORMATION
More workshop dates will be added to our website over the coming weeks, so please visit for details, or feel free to contact Vic or Liz for further details or to book a place.
To book a place on one of the workshops above, you can either pay by credit card using Paypal, pay by card over the phone, or send a cheque through the post to the address on the contacts page.
We also offer a gift certificate for the workshops, so if you would like to book a surprise gift for someone, please let us know. We’d be happy to help with your surprise!
SUNDAY 27th JUNE 2010
Subject: Native Portrait
Medium: Pastel
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
By popular request, the Native American portrait workshop is back. Pastels and velour paper are a great combination for human skin textures, be it soft skin or textured, weather-beaten skin like that of the Native American. Learn how contrasting warm and cool colours are applied to give the skin a realistic look, as well as the special requirements for painting lines, eyes, hair, etc. Then have fun rendering beads, clothing and feathers, before sitting back and admiring how all those colours and textures work together to bring you portrait to life. This workshop is a must for anyone wanting to take their portrait painting to a new level. Just bring yourself & some lunch.
SUNDAY 6th JUNE 2010
Subject: Wolf
Medium: Coloured Pencil
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Coloured pencils are an increasingly popular medium for all subjects – including animals. They lend themselves to subtle tones and also detailed textures and details. Learn how to use coloured pencils to set down initial tones, and how best to layer fur texture. We will be working on a smooth surface to allow for plenty of fine details, such as the wolf’s eyes, nose and paws.
Add a few touches for foregrounds, and see just how realistic your coloured pencil work can be.
Subject: Horse on black velour
Medium: Pastel
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Black velour brings sharp contrasts and drama to pastel painting. It can, however, be difficult to work with.
In this first pastel workshop using black velour, you will learn the specific techniques required to paint a stunning portrait of a white horse, using the black surface to give you great contrasts, subtle tones and an almost mystical feeling which is difficult to achieve on other colours of velour.
A must do workshop for horse lovers wanting to create a painting full of strength and atmosphere.
Subject: Wolf
Medium: Pastel
Length: 2 day
Price: £95
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Combine wildlife and landscape painting in this 2 day workshop.
Learn how to combine separate references to create your own unique compositions.
Vic will teach you how to paint the different textures in the landscape – mountains, trees, rocks, etc. How to achieve depth of field in your composition, and, finally how to give your subject – the wolf – importance in the painting.
By the end of the weekend, you will have taken a wolf from a sanctuary and ‘released’ him back into the wild!
Subject: Tiger
Medium: Watercolour
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
Following on from the popular and enjoyable cheetah watercolour workshop earlier this year, here is another chance to paint wildlife in watercolour for those who missed out the first time, or those who would like to try again. The colour and markings of the tiger are perfectly suited to the watercolour medium. If you thought you couldn’t paint realistic animals in watercolour, then think again. You will be pleasantly surprised at what lovely effects you can achieve in this popular medium.
Medium: Pastel
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
This is a portrait workshop with a difference. If you enjoy colour, and would like to learn how to be more expressive with your pastels, then try this workshop – painting a full-length portrait of a young Native American Blackfoot girl, resplendent in her ceremonial dress. The focus of this workshop is colour and tone – the essentials for any painting. Learn how to create form with tone (soft, warm shadows and bright sunlight) and colour (balancing rich warm colours against translucent cool shadows). Capture expression and feeling with soft touches of pastel, rather than with fine detail.
The result will be a beautiful painting full of warmth, which all your family and friends will want!
Medium: Pastel
Length: 1 day
Price: £50
Included in the day: All light refreshments, materials and tuition
Suitable for: Beginners & advanced artists
Location: Parish rooms, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. NG12 4ET
The combination of pastel and velour paper is so versatile, it can be used for practically any subject. From animals to portraits, landscapes to seascapes.
Learn how to paint the different textures in a seascape – hard, jagged rocks, reflective water, soft breaking waves and atmospheric skies.
Maybe there will even be an occasional whale migrating along the California coast in your painting!