We’ll explore some simple techniques in oil painting for improving tonal balance and composition, helping you to improve depth and realism in your work. Trained in the classical techniques of fine art oil painting Nial Adams has become known for his evocative landscapes and, in particular, his big Norfolk skies. This session, aimed and improving beginners and competent artists, will help you to refine your understanding and use of tonal values, often neglected in pursuit of colour. Nial will share some simple methods of building form and depth through the use of a limited palette. These techniques, while ideal for landscape work also apply across all other genres of oil painting. Working in a small group with Nial, you’ll be using limited colours and brushes to quickly establish strong composition and build confidence in using the full tonal range. At The Crypt Gallery, Norwich School, Cathedral Close. Bring your own materials (list in event booking link).
Oil Painting
Art, Drawing, Painting & Social Media for Artists Workshops, 15 Oct
Paint Out Norwich Art Workshops
Paint Out Norwich 2016 programme of artist workshops takes place on Saturday 15 October including oils from dusk to dark, egg tempera making & painting, colour theory in practice (indoors and out), social media for artists. All workshops take place at Anteros Arts Centre on Fye Bridge St, please book below.
Paint Out Norwich 2016 Workshops
Social Media | Egg Tempera | Colour Theory | Life Drawing | Nocturne Painting
Social Media for Artists – Katy Jon Went
Social Media guru with 14,000 followers and Web promotion specialist (“how to get to no#1 on google”) Katy Went will help you learn how to maximise your social media reach for your artworks with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, etc – and how to find the best platform for your style and expertise. As a photographer, writer and promoter, she knows words and images, and how to get them read and seen. For instance, how to get 35,000 views of a single blog post, 3,500 reach for your Facebook post, 350 clickthroughs to your website, 1200 likes on an album of images, posting tricks for 30 art and artist groups. Blogging, tagging and art photo-sharing tips. Bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone or hire one for £5.
Egg Tempera Painting for *Kids – Sue Mann
Before modern oil paints, artists made their own paint using egg and other natural materials. Artist Sue Mann will lead this unusual workshop in how to mix your own egg tempera paints, and then use them to paint a still life. *Children includes everyone, age 6 and upwards, young at heart adults may apply and try a small amount of pre-prepared artist’s pigment. They can also bring along some white gouache and watercolour/gouache to learn how to combine with the hands-on activity and their current practice. Includes a break for kids and adults alike to stretch their legs and let off steam. Read more about Sue Mann’s art tutoring services.
Exploring Colour for Studio & Outdoors – David Lindsay
Artist David Lindsay looks at colour theory in practice for painting from life. Beginners and experienced artists welcome. Creative exercises designed to develop an individual sense of colour followed by a chance to test out skills by working outside. Materials supplied for morning session, bring your own materials for the afternoon session.
Life Drawing – Brian Korteling
Friendly and informal life drawing session with artist Brian Korteling. Everyone is welcome from the complete novice to the most experienced of artists. Drawing materials are supplied, though bring other equipment if you like. Includes a 10 min break for tea/coffee, a biscuit and a chat in the middle of the session.
[This class has unfortunately been cancelled]Nocturne Oils from Dusk To Dark – Michael Richardson
An indoor briefing and, then working outdoors in disappearing light. This nocturne oil painting (watercolourists may apply but techniques are primarily aimed at oil painters) workshop is delivered by seasoned professional, Michael Richardson, a member of the Plein Air Painting Society, The Wapping Group of Artists, and who shows in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He paints outside almost every day in the Impressionist style for collectors worldwide. His workshops are very well attended when delivered at Paint Out Wells and Norwich. He was the winner of the inaugural Paint Out Norwich 2015 Nocturne Painting Competition.
Workshop Booking details
| TITLE | DATE | TIME | COST | INFO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Media for Artists with Katy Went | October 15, 2016 | 9:30am – 10:30am | £10 | Bring your own laptop, smartphone, ipad or hire one (£5). Meet at Colgate Room, Anteros Arts, Fye Bridge St |
| Egg Tempera Painting for *Kids (6-adult) with Sue Mann | October 15, 2016 | 11:00am – 2:00pm | £20 | Fishgate Room, Anteros Arts, Fye Bridge St. Includes break time. |
| Exploring Colour for Studio and Outdoors with David Lindsay | October 15, 2016 | 11:30am – 4:30pm | £40+£5 paint materials hire/usage if require | Materials supplied for morning session, bring your own materials for the afternoon session. Lunch not supplied, suggest North Cafe next door to Anteros. Held in Colgate Room, Anteros Arts, Fye Bridge St |
| Life Drawing with Brian Korteling | October 15, 2016 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm | N/A | Cancelled |
| From Dusk to Dark, Nocturne Painting with Michael Richardson | October 15, 2016 | 4:30pm – 8:30pm | £40 + £5 light hire/£10 purchase | Bring your own materials. Meet at Anteros Arts, Fye Bridge St. Initially held in Fishgate Room, then outside around Tombland. |
Painting En Plein Air Under Changing Light Art Workshop with Michael Richardson
Painting Workshop in Wells, Norfolk
Paint Out Wells offers the following art workshop on Saturday 17 September in Wells-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk – Painting En Plein Air Under Changing Light Art Workshop with award-winning experienced artist and tutor, Michael Richardson.
Offered to local and visiting amateur, aspiring and experienced artists, as well as members of the Paint Out competition – all are welcome to take part.
The workshop will take place from 3pm and includes teaching and then tuition under the fading late-afternoon/early-evening light. The price is £45 with the option to participate in an early-morning paint out the following day and then brunch with the competition artists on the Albatros ship. You will need to bring your own art materials. Please book here.
Michael is competing in Paint Out this year and is a veteran of Paint Out Norwich & Wells 2014-15 and plenty of other competitions and exhibitions. He won the inaugural Nocturne Prize in 2015.
About Artist Michael Richardson, UA
Michael lives in East Kent and paints almost every day, whatever the weather en plein air. As a modern Impressionist he believes that painting sur le motif is the most fulfilling challenge for a painter’s technique. His atmospheric work in both oils and watercolour has found collectors worldwide, especially in America.
Michael was brought up in post-war Suffolk, “Constable Country”, and educated at Ipswich School and Ipswich College of Art and later in Paris.
In the 1960s his interest in sailing led him into a career in the marine industry where he specialised in sail design and manufacture. Whilst maintaining an interest in art he returned to full-time painting in 1992, yet drew on his marine experience in his specialism around painting boats.
He enjoys the plein air challenge of “working fast, in all weathers, in front of the subject.”
He is also a member of the Chelsea Art Society, Council Member of the United Society of Artists and is a founder member of the Brass Monkeys Art Society, a “hard core” group of winter outdoor painters.
He has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Society of Marine Artists, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries in London.
Workshop Booking details
| En Plein Air Oil Painting in Changing Light with Michael Richardson | September 17, 2016 | 3-7.30pm | 10-12 spaces available | £45 | Bring your own materials. Meet at the Albatros Ship. |
Painting Workshops
Norwich Art Class/Workshops
On Monday October 19th 2015, two open air art/painting workshops will be held in Norwich, Norfolk. Offered, as part of Paint Out Norwich 2015, by artists who are both competing this year and one of whom is a veteran of Paint Out Norwich 2014 and Paint Out Wells 2015 as well as plenty of other awards, competitions and exhibitions. Local and visiting amateur, aspiring and experienced artists, as well as members of the competition, are all welcome to take part. The two workshops will take place 10am-4pm and include lunch in the £50 package price. You will need to bring your own art materials. The workshops on offer are:
Bold and Expressive: Mixed Media From Life with Denis Clarke- An Introduction to Oil Painting En Plein Air with Michael Richardson
Both Michael Richardson and Denis Clarke are well known professional en plein air painters, who will guide beginner and intermediate artists through the steps needed to create a successful open air painting.
Bold and Expressive: Mixed Media From Life
An introduction to some diversions from habitual ways we look and draw from a subject. Methods might be challenging to get your thinking more attuned to a practice of learning to see form and space using drawing media as well as paint. Expressive use of mark and gesture will be encouraged. (More details to follow)
Denis Clarke is a well established artist who exhibits and teaches in Australia and the UK. He studied at the National Art School Sydney, St Martins School of Art, London and Byam Shaw School of Art, London. He also taught in Switzerland and was awarded a studio scholarship at at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. He has been both the recipient of major awards as well as judged several prestigious art prizes.
Denis is renowned for devising and delivering innovative master class courses linking observational drawing to creative and experimental methods with drawing and mixed media. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an international artist and art teacher.
An Introduction to Oil Painting En Plein Air Workshop
This introductory oil painting workshop will be delivered by Michael Richardson, a member of the Plein Air Painting Society, The Wapping Group of Artists, and who shows in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He paints outside almost every day in the Impressionist style for collectors worldwide. This workshop was very well attended when delivered at Paint Out Wells so book early to avoid disappointment.
Workshop Booking details
| TITLE | Date | Time | Size | Cost | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bold and Expressive: Mixed Media From Life with Denis Clarke | October 19, 2015 | 10:00am – 4:00pm | 15 spaces available | £50/person inc lunch | Bring your own materials. Meet at the Maddermarket Theatre |
| Introduction to En Plein Air Oil Painting with Michael Richardson | October 19, 2015 | 10:00am – 4:00pm | 15 spaces available | £50/person inc lunch | Bring your own materials. Meet at the Maddermarket Theatre |
Paint Out Wells Exhibition Vote People’s Choice Prize to Chris Daynes
Paint Out Wells People’s Choice Prize
As part of Paint Out Wells 2015 some 100 competition artworks by the artists were displayed during a weekend Exhibition at which members of the public were encouraged to vote for their favourite artist’s work on display. Hence the prize was both democratic and not influenced by either the judges or team. The winner by a fair margin was Chris Daynes to whom a £200 prize has been awarded.
Other artists in the top running, as voted for by the general public, were Richard Bond, Tom Cringle, Lara Cobden – the overall winner, Jane Hodgson, Tony Robinson, and Will Topley – who also won recognition for having captured the spirit of Wells-next-the-Sea. For other artist prize awards at Wells see here.
Artist Chris Daynes
Chris Daynes competed in both Paint Out Wells 2015 and Paint Out Norwich 2014 – at which he won the second prize. Chris is a seasoned en plein air painter who works all over England in all weathers, “always a challenging and sometimes uncomfortable experience, very social and never dull”, he says.
Chris was born in Hove, Sussex but educated in Norfolk in the 1960s – a place he still describes as his “spiritual home“. An Honours Degree in Fine Art at Leeds College of Art followed. Since giving up teaching in 2001 he has been fortunate to be able to paint full time. He is a former Prize Winner at the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Show at the Mall Galleries, London.
He describes himself as “an ‘on the spot’ painter, making sketches and informative visual notes in oils as work in its own right and also resources for working up into larger pieces” whose “work aims to reflect or react to the many sensations received over a period of time in the landscape when different events occur – flights of birds, noises, visiting people, changes of light and times of day.”
Chris’s Paintings at Wells
Chris painted five works at Wells-next-the-Sea of which the first two below were particularly commended by Exhibition visitors.
Chris Daynes Fine Weather, Wells Paint Out Wells 2015 Exhibition Vote People’s Choice 12×16 Oil ©Mark Ivan Benfield
Paint Out Wells Sunrise Rosemary & Co Prize to Roy Connelly
Paint Out Wells Sunrise Artists Prize
As part of Paint Out Wells 2015 artists were encouraged to rise early and paint the sunrise at Wells-next-the-Sea beach. This was not part of the main competition and so was optional. We are grateful to Rosemary & Co for their sponsorship of a brushes set prize for the best Paint Out artist painting Ebb Tide, Wells which was won by Roy Connelly, a veteran prize winner at Paint Out Norwich 2014. For other prize awards at Wells see here.
Artist Roy Connelly
Roy Connelly competed in both Paint Out Wells 2015 and Paint Out Norwich 2014 at which he won the third prize. Roy is a founder member of the Plein Air Brotherhood, and says he is just as happy with his easel and box of oil paints on a deserted beach as he is at noisy and busy Trafalgar Square in London. His home turf is the area in Suffolk, close to where Gainsborough and Constable lived and worked.
Rosemary & Co Artists’ Brushes
Rosemary & Co artists’ brushes are all hand made to the finest quality and come ready for acrylic, oil, pastels or watercolour. There are easily portable plein air pochade sets, specialist sets for botanical, garden, or studio painting, and many more besides.
Rosemary & Co are one of the many sponsors and partners without whom Paint Out would not be able to promote en plein air painting to such a wide and growing audience.
An Introduction to Oil Painting En Plein Air Workshop with Michael Richardson
Oil Painting Workshop in Wells-next-the-Sea
Michael Richardson is a very experienced artist and veteran of Paint Out Norwich 2014 and entrant in Paint Out Wells 2015. He was brought up in post-war Suffolk, “Constable Country”, and educated at Ipswich School and Ipswich College of Art and later in Paris. His work has also been exhibited in the RSMA, RBA, ROI and RI shows at the Mall Galleries and at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
He is a long standing member of the Wapping Group of Artists, one of the oldest and most prestigious plein air painting societies in Europe.
Michael will offer the following art workshop on Tuesday 8 September in Wells-next-the-Sea:
- An Introduction to Oil Painting En Plein Air Workshop with Michael Richardson
Offered, as part of Paint Out Wells 2015, Michael is competing this year and is a veteran of Paint Out Norwich 2014 and plenty of other competitions and exhibitions. Local and visiting amateur, aspiring and experienced artists, as well as members of the competition, are all welcome to take part. The workshop will take place from 11am and includes lunch in the £50 package price. You will need to bring your own art materials. Please book here.
Michael Richardson, Artist
Michael lives in East Kent and paints almost every day, whatever the weather en plein air. As a modern Impressionist he believes that painting sur le motif is the most fulfilling challenge for a painter’s technique. His atmospheric work in both oils and watercolour has found collectors worldwide, especially in America.
In the 1960s his interest in sailing led him into a career in the marine industry where he specialised in sail design and manufacture. Whilst maintaining an interest in art he returned to full time painting in 1992, yet drew on his marine experience in his specialism around painting boats.
He enyoys the plein air challenge of “working fast, in all weathers, in front of the subject.”
He is also a member of the Chelsea Art Society, Council Member of the United Society of Artists and is a founder member of the Brass Monkeys Art Society, a “hard core” group of winter outdoor painters.
He has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Society of Marine Artists, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries in London.
Intermediate En Plein Air Watercolour Painting Workshop with Richard Bond
Watercolour Art Workshop in Wells-next-the-Sea
Richard Bond is a Norwich-based artist, working mainly in oils and watercolour, whose work has been exhibited in various regional and national group shows such as the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Competition, and the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition.
Richard will offer the following art workshop on Tuesday 8 September in Wells-next-the-Sea:
- Intermediate En Plein Air Watercolour Painting with Richard Bond
Offered, as part of Paint Out Wells 2015, Richard is competing this year and is a veteran of Paint Out Norwich 2014 and plenty of other competitions and exhibitions. Local and visiting amateur, aspiring and experienced artists, as well as members of the competition, are all welcome to take part. The workshop will take place from just after 10am and includes lunch in the £50 package price. You will need to bring your own art materials. Please book here.
Richard’s artistic interests range from “rural landscape, architectural subjects and urban themes, to still life and the human figure.” He has appeared in International Artist magazine (Issue 86, 2012) in a feature piece “Master Painters of the World: UK Richard Bond” about his work, style and methods.
From his website, Richard writes:
“My watercolour paintings range from small ‘plein air’ works painted outdoors on location, to large-scale studio paintings, based on outdoor studies and sketches, photographs and other reference material. As a figurative painter I am captivated by the liquid beauty of the watercolour medium, its versatility, and the ability to say more with less. For all of my work, I use high-quality, permanent paints and acid-free, mould-made papers, or present-day versions of traditional handmade papers. I enjoy researching the methods and techniques of the great masters of 19th and 20th century British and American watercolour, and have always admired, and continue to be inspired by, the paintings of Cotman, Turner, Sargent and HB Brabazon in particular. For me, watercolour is an exciting, expressive and challenging medium, and I strive to maintain in my own work that sense of immediacy and directness which is the essence of the traditional art of watercolour painting.”