Week of Courses
SKETCHBOOK: FAST AND LOOSE COLOUR
Relax and enjoy getting back to the basics with artful games to get creative inspiration flowing, all in the privacy of your own sketchbook! Explore new ways of seeing objects, recording your impressions and using your sketchbook so it becomes an essential resource to support your creative thinking. Pam Grant Residential: £350 Non-residential: £245
NATURE PRINTS
“When we observe nature, the guiding feature seems to be a kind of permission to exist, a capacity to co-exist amongst the countless forms of life” Gustav Metzger (1992) Nature prints were for centuries used to reproduce plants and build up study collections of flora and fauna; during the 19th century they were the precursor
PAINTING THE SEA
Cumbria's west coast has a wide variety of shoreline subjects for the painter, from dramatic cliffs to sandy/pebbly beaches and tidal estuaries. Join landscape painter Lionel Playford visiting two different locations for inspiration. Sharpen up your skills sketching and painting en plein air and learn some useful techniques to capture the look and feeling of
DRAWING FROM THE EARTH
“Nature, from the Latin nasci means to become, to come from, that is to say, all that by its own force develops, forms, moves.” (Kurt Schwitters 1924) Iron, sandstone and slate have been mined in Cumbria for centuries and are still used to make artist colours such as Egremont red, St Bees yellow and Kirkby