FULLY BOOKED: PAINT LIKE AN IMPRESSIONIST WITH WATERCOLOUR

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Many watercolour painters want to paint impressionistically. Creating colourful, light touch paintings that feel spontaneous and full of life. This course provides an opportunity to look at how Impressionism might be applied to watercolour painting, prompting you to explore cleaner, brighter, colour use in conjunction with more lively and varied brush work. Impressionist watercolours strip 

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FULLY BOOKED: ESSENTIAL DRAWING SKILLS: DRAWING THE HUMAN FORM

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

A starter or refresher to get to grips with the basics in drawing the human form. A clothed live model be available for a number of sessions during the course.   Ceri Allen (Carlisle www.highamhall.com/ceri-allen) Residential: £275 Non-residential: £195 ESSENTIAL DRAWING SKILLS modules can work well as standalone sessions or, combined with others in the 

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PALETTE KNIFE EXPERIMENTS (MATERIALS PROVIDED)

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Explore the application of paint through drag, scrape and spread technique. Play with mixing colours on the go and creating textures and layers (impasto). Palette knife painting lends itself to a variety of subject matters including the more abstract. Experience the freedom of using this tool to create your very own original masterpiece. Coral Grace 

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PAINTING THE SEA: CUMBRIA’S WEST COAST

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Cumbria's west coast offers a varied subject for the landscape artist. Join professional landscape painter Lionel Playford on a journey of discovery in outdoor sketching and studio painting visiting old harbours, wide beaches, rocky headlands and salt marshes for inspiration. Lionel Playford (N Pennines www.highamhall.com/lionel-playford) Residential: £600 Non-residential: £430 (incl. field trips)

WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES FOR BEGINNERS (EVERYTHING PROVIDED)

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Learn how to paint a simple but effective landscape, including skies, hills, trees, hedgerows and other landscape features including adding buildings to the landscape. Suitable for beginner and intermediate levels who want to brush up their techniques. A taught course, using step-by-step demonstrations with individual help given throughout. Jane Beech (Cheshire www.highamhall.com/jane-beech) Residential: £485 Non-residential: 

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SKETCHBOOK: FAST AND LOOSE!

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Artful games to get creative inspiration flowing, all in the privacy of your own sketchbook. Be introduced to new ways of seeing objects, recording your impressions and using your sketchbook so you see this essential aid to Design and Art in a new light. Learn how sketchbooks have been used by different artists and why 

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PASTELS: PURE AND SIMPLE

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Learn and develop a mastery of chalk pastel on its own, delivering vibrant colours across a wide range of tones. Work from landscape and still life under guidance of an artist who continues the authentic approach of the much-missed Christopher Assheton-Stones. All levels of ability and an individualised approach is offered for previous attendees. Graham 

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FULLY BOOKED: SEMI-ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA EXPRESSIVE LANDSCAPES

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Explore contemporary mixed media techniques using watercolour, gouache, acrylic inks and soft pastel. We may venture outdoors (weather permitting) painting and drawing in a dramatic Lakeland landscape setting but this course mainly focuses on a studio response to our source material (sketches, photographs, drawings and so on) with a semi abstract and expressive direction in 

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FULLY BOOKED: BOTANICAL COLOURED PENCIL: SUMMER SESSION

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Ideal for those keen to spend a longer stay, maybe getting on with existing projects in our usual relaxed atmosphere, rotating individual attention so you may work at your own pace. Susan Christopher-Coulson (Lancashire www.highamhall.com/susan-christopher-coulson) Residential: £570 Non-residential: £400

ESSENTIAL DRAWING SKILLS: DRAWING WITH COLOUR

Get to grips with using colour in your Drawings. With inspiration from great artists, we will explore, pastel, ink, coloured pencil and other coloured media. This course is aimed at beginners or as a refresher for the more experienced.   Ceri Allen (Carlisle www.highamhall.com/ceri-allen) Residential: £270 Non-residential: £190 ESSENTIAL DRAWING SKILLS modules can work well 

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