Creative Arts
Drawing Workshops with Mark Wilde
Dates: Mon 26 – Fri 30 March, 2012
9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: £57 per day
£215 for 5-day course
Monday - Learning to see Understanding how to look and draw what you see; exercises exploring edges and spaces.
Tuesday - Perspective Understanding basic linear line drawing using street scenes and buildings.
Wednesday – Faces Drawing realistic faces in frontal, profile and three quarter view.
Thursday - Human figure Understanding the proportions of the body.
Friday - Mixed media Review of the week, plus using other media such as pastels, ink, charcoal, watercolours
Watercolour Workshops with Mark Wilde
Dates: Mon 30 July – Fri 3 August, 2012
9.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: £57 per day
£215 for 5-day course
Monday - Watercolour demonstrations Basic techniques, washes, dry brush, etc.
Tuesday – Tone Understanding tonal values, light and dark and contrast using a limited pallet of colours. There will be a short demonstration followed by students doing original paintings using their own ideas and photos.
Wednesday – Colour Exploring colour theory; mixing and matching, opaque and transparent colours, followed by a practice session using students' own ideas.
Thursday - Colour glazing techniques More advanced use of colour and painting techniques used to create atmospheric pictures. Demonstration followed by a practice session.
Friday - Line and wash A demonstration of techniques for using water soluble and waterproof pens, then using these ideas to create mixed media pictures using paints.
Also covered during the course of the week will be presentation (mounting, framing) and composition.
Please select the courses you wish to attend.Having run another successful course at Uppingham last summer, we are delighted that popular local artist and tutor Mark Wilde will be returning to Uppingham in 2012. Mark is a professional artist and teacher who has taught classes in the Leicestershire area since 1995. He has exhibited in galleries around the country and over the years has won numerous painting awards. His atmospheric seascapes and pen and wash street scenes are especially popular. An enthusiastic tutor, Mark teaches weekly full time classes as well as week long workshops in a variety of media.
Mark will be running a series of Drawing Workshops during the Easter holidays, and Painting Workshops in the summer. Each day will build on things learned on previous days, although students may book specific days if they wish. A list of materials required will be provided in advance.