Colour and Shape in Nature (Online Workshop) Spring 2025 w/ Clare Haward
March 26 to April 9 (Wednesdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/_5SoG1odvjU
Workshop Description
A three week online painting workshop in which we will focus on the pictorial possibilities of plants. I will introduce a series of exercises encouraging students to see differently and discover the abstract qualities of our compositions. Considering core elements such as tone, line, light and shadow, colour relationships and edge quality. We will explore ways to represent what we see with paint.
Please note, this is not a course in botanical illustration!
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Introduction to my work and influences
Demonstration and Exercises: Abstracting and simplifying our compositions with drawing and monochrome/limited palette oil exercises focussing on finding the underlying abstract and pictorial possibilities of our compositions.
Week 2
Introducing colour and finding generalisations
Colour mixing and colour relationships - focus on greens and neutrals.
Explore transparency and opacity of our pigments.
Demonstration and exercises to explore the key tonal/colour relationships within our compositions, considering the relationship of light to shadow and maintaining the underlying abstraction.
Week 3
Bringing the elements together.
The final session students will work on bringing the elements together in a painting, considering the underlying colour relationships and abstract design, whilst exploring how to balance the visual information across the canvas.
Workshop Materials List
Palette
Palette Knife
Hog Brushes (size 6-10 range of brushes)
Basic Colour Palette:
Titanium White
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Cadmium Yellow (Medium)
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Additional Colours:
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Lemon
Pthalo Blue or Prussian Blue
Pthalo Green or Veridian
Dioxadine (Windsor) Violet
Transparent Oxide Brown
A4/A3 Sized Canvas/board
Solvent
Linseed Oil/Liquin
Rags
Charcoal and Cartridge Paper
March 26 to April 9 (Wednesdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/_5SoG1odvjU
Workshop Description
A three week online painting workshop in which we will focus on the pictorial possibilities of plants. I will introduce a series of exercises encouraging students to see differently and discover the abstract qualities of our compositions. Considering core elements such as tone, line, light and shadow, colour relationships and edge quality. We will explore ways to represent what we see with paint.
Please note, this is not a course in botanical illustration!
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Introduction to my work and influences
Demonstration and Exercises: Abstracting and simplifying our compositions with drawing and monochrome/limited palette oil exercises focussing on finding the underlying abstract and pictorial possibilities of our compositions.
Week 2
Introducing colour and finding generalisations
Colour mixing and colour relationships - focus on greens and neutrals.
Explore transparency and opacity of our pigments.
Demonstration and exercises to explore the key tonal/colour relationships within our compositions, considering the relationship of light to shadow and maintaining the underlying abstraction.
Week 3
Bringing the elements together.
The final session students will work on bringing the elements together in a painting, considering the underlying colour relationships and abstract design, whilst exploring how to balance the visual information across the canvas.
Workshop Materials List
Palette
Palette Knife
Hog Brushes (size 6-10 range of brushes)
Basic Colour Palette:
Titanium White
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Cadmium Yellow (Medium)
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Additional Colours:
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Lemon
Pthalo Blue or Prussian Blue
Pthalo Green or Veridian
Dioxadine (Windsor) Violet
Transparent Oxide Brown
A4/A3 Sized Canvas/board
Solvent
Linseed Oil/Liquin
Rags
Charcoal and Cartridge Paper
March 26 to April 9 (Wednesdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/_5SoG1odvjU
Workshop Description
A three week online painting workshop in which we will focus on the pictorial possibilities of plants. I will introduce a series of exercises encouraging students to see differently and discover the abstract qualities of our compositions. Considering core elements such as tone, line, light and shadow, colour relationships and edge quality. We will explore ways to represent what we see with paint.
Please note, this is not a course in botanical illustration!
Workshop Outline
Week 1
Introduction to my work and influences
Demonstration and Exercises: Abstracting and simplifying our compositions with drawing and monochrome/limited palette oil exercises focussing on finding the underlying abstract and pictorial possibilities of our compositions.
Week 2
Introducing colour and finding generalisations
Colour mixing and colour relationships - focus on greens and neutrals.
Explore transparency and opacity of our pigments.
Demonstration and exercises to explore the key tonal/colour relationships within our compositions, considering the relationship of light to shadow and maintaining the underlying abstraction.
Week 3
Bringing the elements together.
The final session students will work on bringing the elements together in a painting, considering the underlying colour relationships and abstract design, whilst exploring how to balance the visual information across the canvas.
Workshop Materials List
Palette
Palette Knife
Hog Brushes (size 6-10 range of brushes)
Basic Colour Palette:
Titanium White
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Cadmium Yellow (Medium)
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Additional Colours:
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Lemon
Pthalo Blue or Prussian Blue
Pthalo Green or Veridian
Dioxadine (Windsor) Violet
Transparent Oxide Brown
A4/A3 Sized Canvas/board
Solvent
Linseed Oil/Liquin
Rags
Charcoal and Cartridge Paper