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Michael Weller – Colour First (Recording)

Date recorded: Saturday, April 6, 2024

Level: All

Medium: All

Presentation Type: Demo

Michael Weller often starts with a color idea in his work. In this demo/paint-along of a small still life, Michael will share how he places patches of color first, before the lines, as a starting point for creating his bold, loose abstracted paintings.

Register once for the Spring Fling 2024 Festival Pass to participate and receive Zoom and recording links for this event and all the Spring Fling Festival events.

Free!

Michael Weller studied librarianship in Manchester and realised early on he didn’t want to be a librarian. Life-drawing cheered him up. Later he did a degree in Fine Art and studied portrait-painting at Lavender Hill Studios and drawing and painting with the New English Art Club. In 2015 he won the Le Clerc Fowle Medal for a group of outstanding paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition, and the Winsor & Newton Award for a painting at the New English Art Club annual exhibition.

 

Spring Fling 2024 Festival – Free!

  • This Festival was held live in April, 2024
  • Festival recordings are now part of our Past Free Class Recordings Archive
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Spring Fling 24 Recordings

  • Art Chat with Erin Lee Gafill (Recording)

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  • Soo Hong – Understanding Black & White (Recording)

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  • Janet Pedersen – Painting a Contemporary Still-Life in Acrylics (Recording)

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  • Susan Greenstein – Working Quickly: Trusting Your Intuition (Recording)

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  • Molly Hashimoto – Paint a National Park Landscape (Recording)

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  • Mark Daniel Nelson – Simplifying for Impact (Recording)

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  • Paul Bailey – Building Abstraction (Recording)

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  • Scott Gellatly – Bringing Inventive Color to the Landscape (Recording)

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  • Anton Nowels – Using Photoshop as a Jumping Off Point (Recording)

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  • Tom Birmingham – Why Draw?: Observation as the Foundation of the Creative Process (Recording)

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  • Larry Calkins – Creating Vocabulary through Mark Making (Recorded)

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  • Annelise Firth – The Floral Still Life: Finding Your Way into the Subject (Recording)

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  • Michael Weller – Colour First (Recording)

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  • Susan Abbott – An Artist’s Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago (Recording)

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  • Tim Tozer – Exploring Place and Memory through Painting (Recording)

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  • Jean Mackay – Painting Bird Eggs in Watercolor (Recording)

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  • Al Gury – The Beauty of Limited Palettes (Recorded)

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  • Amy Dury- Using Found Imagery for Inspiration in Painting (Recording)

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  • Richard Suckling – Sparkling Seas and Dramatic Skies: Pastel Demo (Recording)

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  • Liz Prescott – Capturing Light in the Landscape (Recorded)

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  • Mary Pritchard – Grasses and Reflections in Pastels (Recording)

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  • Lynn Mehta – Painting Loose and Free Using the Palette Knife and Expressive Brushwork (Recording)

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  • Stacy Kamin – Capturing Everyday Objects in Paint (Recording)

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