Watercolour painting classes
Update due to Coronavirus.
I am very sorry to say that my painting classes at Pegasus are not able to continue due to coronavirus, however, I can now offer online classes via video link.
More updated information regarding virtual art classes....
I can do a video link for up to 8/10 people and will demonstrate the techniques of watercolour painting. My focus has always been on the basic principles of painting in watercolour, an almost by numbers approach, and then as confidence grows and an understanding of how the medium works, the student (any age!) can develop their own style and method of following the basics in their own way.
After the initial introduction I will give the hopefully inspired painters a chance to try out the techniques, eg “how to paint a sky, trees, rocks, houses”.
I will mostly concentrate on landscapes as my real passion is painting “en plein air” and I will be constantly referring to that style of painting during my classes. There is nothing wrong with painting from photographs, as in this country it is hard to get outside, but there is nothing like sitting in a lovely place and recording the view in front of you. How all this will work out on screen I am not sure, but it will be great fun giving it a go.
There will be a charge of £10 per lesson over a month’s course, so £40 a month. That will include communication over each week.
These are very strange times, but as I am finding, there are great opportunities and I can’t wait to get going! If you would like to book onto a class please email me: richard@rtcwatercolours.co.uk.
Stay safe and well,
Best wishes
Richard Callingham
Please note all art classes are now via video link - I am no longer teaching indoors or out of doors due to Covid19.
My whole approach to teaching painting in watercolours is to keep it as simple as possible. It is only by this apparent and simplistic approach that confidence can be gained quickly in understanding how the medium works, but the main priority is to have fun, and we do have fun!
You would be surprised how little equipment you need for watercolours. In the studio at Pegasus, particularly during the winter months we work from photographs. In the summer we get out as much as is practical and comfortable having, of course, the most wonderful countryside on our doorstep. Visits in winter are made to churches (interiors) and in summer to private gardens and houses. We even had an exclusive visit to one of the Livery Halls in London to paint a block of salt.
I carry in one jacket pocket everything for creating an 'en plein air' watercolour and that includes 11” x 8” 200lb paper (I do carry a drawing board) mounted onto thick card, a folding no. 10 brush, F pencil, India rubber (just in case!) and a 5" x 3" metal paint box with 12 colours and two fold out mixing trays. The water is carried in a 35mm plastic film canister, quite enough for at least two pictures, oh yes and tissues for cleaning the brush, NOT for dabbing out clouds! That's it and your off!
I am very sorry to say that my painting classes at Pegasus are not able to continue due to coronavirus, however, I can now offer online classes via video link.
More updated information regarding virtual art classes....
I can do a video link for up to 8/10 people and will demonstrate the techniques of watercolour painting. My focus has always been on the basic principles of painting in watercolour, an almost by numbers approach, and then as confidence grows and an understanding of how the medium works, the student (any age!) can develop their own style and method of following the basics in their own way.
After the initial introduction I will give the hopefully inspired painters a chance to try out the techniques, eg “how to paint a sky, trees, rocks, houses”.
I will mostly concentrate on landscapes as my real passion is painting “en plein air” and I will be constantly referring to that style of painting during my classes. There is nothing wrong with painting from photographs, as in this country it is hard to get outside, but there is nothing like sitting in a lovely place and recording the view in front of you. How all this will work out on screen I am not sure, but it will be great fun giving it a go.
There will be a charge of £10 per lesson over a month’s course, so £40 a month. That will include communication over each week.
These are very strange times, but as I am finding, there are great opportunities and I can’t wait to get going! If you would like to book onto a class please email me: richard@rtcwatercolours.co.uk.
Stay safe and well,
Best wishes
Richard Callingham
Please note all art classes are now via video link - I am no longer teaching indoors or out of doors due to Covid19.
My whole approach to teaching painting in watercolours is to keep it as simple as possible. It is only by this apparent and simplistic approach that confidence can be gained quickly in understanding how the medium works, but the main priority is to have fun, and we do have fun!
You would be surprised how little equipment you need for watercolours. In the studio at Pegasus, particularly during the winter months we work from photographs. In the summer we get out as much as is practical and comfortable having, of course, the most wonderful countryside on our doorstep. Visits in winter are made to churches (interiors) and in summer to private gardens and houses. We even had an exclusive visit to one of the Livery Halls in London to paint a block of salt.
I carry in one jacket pocket everything for creating an 'en plein air' watercolour and that includes 11” x 8” 200lb paper (I do carry a drawing board) mounted onto thick card, a folding no. 10 brush, F pencil, India rubber (just in case!) and a 5" x 3" metal paint box with 12 colours and two fold out mixing trays. The water is carried in a 35mm plastic film canister, quite enough for at least two pictures, oh yes and tissues for cleaning the brush, NOT for dabbing out clouds! That's it and your off!
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