We are delighted to launch a new online course taught by Sydney-based artists Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford entitled Conversations with Landscape.
Mike and Debbie are seasoned art teachers having taught courses all over the world for many years. This course takes you through various exercises to help you free up your approach to landscape. Debbie and Mike often describe their painting method as ‘fast and loose’ emphasising the expressive and intuitive use of materials and processes in their response to landscape.
The course is pre-recorded so that you can take your time to really absorb the wealth of advice, practical exercises and demonstrations throughout the course. We advise spending at least 3-4 days working your way through the course. Many people use the exercises to create multiple studies and works over many weeks. You have unlimited access to the course for 12 months.
Some people may choose to go out into their surrounding landscape to do the exercises but if not then the looped films of the Cornish landscape, complete with the sights and sounds of the sea, will be a fantastic resource to work with from the comfort of your own home. The exercises are demonstrated wonderfully by artists Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford with lots of hints and tips and then the directions for what you can do are written on the screen for you in the text which you can pause to take in the advice. It is a jam-packed course with lots of exercises for you to do and a wealth of advice and instruction from these two highly experienced landscape painters.
Chapters within the course include:
Introduction to the course with Debbie Mackinnon & Mike Staniford
Ch. 1 - Looking at Materials
Ch. 2 - Warm-up exercises: Charcoal, Acrylic Pens, Gouache, Mixed Media, Ink & Natures Brushes
Ch. 3 - Shared Drawing
Ch. 4 - Evaluating and modifying your drawings
Ch. 5 - Creating backgrounds for use on location: Watercolour & Ink, Acrylic on panel, Monoprinting, Acrylic on paper & panel, Gouache on paper
Ch. 6 - Packing to go on location: Debbie’s Kit. Mike’s Kit.
Ch. 7 - On location: Charcoal drawing on white cartridge paper, Charcoal drawing on buff paper, Gridded drawing, Gouache painting using pre-prepared background and sketches
Ch. 8 - On location: Blind contour drawing, Sketching onto pre-prepared backgrounds, Ink & pencils on prepared sketchbook pages
Ch. 9 - On location: Warm-up paintings, Mixed media painting, Acrylic painting on pre-prepared background, Shared painting on 2 sheets pre-prepared sketch, Shared 4 sheet painting
Ch. 10 - Sketches to Paintings in the studio: Reviewing your work, Drawing from your paintings, Drawing & collage from your paintings, Reviewing the shared work, Demo – final painting with Mike, Demo – final painting with Debbie
Ch. 11 - Final Top Tips from Debbie and Mike
Tutor:
Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford
Materials used on this course:
Any water-based acrylic paints, a range of pencils, charcoal, chalks and pastels or crayons. Use of a sketchbook. A full list of materials is available once you purchase this course.
NB. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE MATERIALS YOU CAN STILL GET A LOT OUT OF THE COURSE.
Intended for:
This online course is aimed at anyone who would like to learn a wide range of strategies and exercises for generating work from the landscape to bring into their painting practice. Debbie and Mike take you through lots of techniques and processes which will invigorate your approach to landscape painting and help you to generate lots of studies from which you can make more resolved landscape paintings.
Duration:
The course is broken up into a series of exercises and demonstrations which can be worked with at your own pace but we would suggest that it might be experienced in stages over 3-4 days ideally.
How to participate:
Simply click on the link we send you in your purchase confirmation email from which you can see the main course film and also see the seventeen accompanying landscape looped clips which you can paint from. Some people may choose to go out into their surrounding landscape to do the exercises but if not then the looped films of the Cornish landscape complete with the sights and sounds of the sea will be a fantastic resource to work with from the comfort of your own home. The exercises are demonstrated wonderfully by artists Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford with lots of hints and tips and then the directions for what you can then do are written on the screen for you in the text which you can pause to really take in the advice.
Level:
Accessible to all levels but a little previous experience of drawing and painting may be useful.
Age:
16+ might be a sensible guide age.
Additional info:
If you choose to buy this product, at the checkout you will be asked to create your own Newlyn School of Art online account (if you do not already have one) to access any purchase of digital content. Purchasing of digital content grants the purchaser unlimited and immediate access for 1 year. At the point of purchase, you have no right to cancel or gain a refund as you have received full access to the digital product. Please read the Terms and Conditions.
