Date: Mondays, March 6-April 3, 2023 (no class March 20)
Time: 9:30AM-12:00PM Pacific Time/12:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time/5:30-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil
This will be a 4 week course covering colour mixing, composition, structure and value. We will look at flowers in the history of painting and also look at some contemporary work.
You will learn how to understand the structure of the flower, the balance of colour and value in the composition of your painting. Colour massing and the importance of simplicity and clarity. There will be a LOT of colour mixing!
Week 1:
Students will bring a chosen flower to the workshop. We will look at the structure and individuality of the chosen flower and explore its particular character through drawing and tonal studies. We will also look at paintings of flowers by a variety of artists and look at the history of flower painting in oils. I will be drawing and painting along with the students during each session. Questions are always welcome as we paint!
Week 2:
Students will again bring a chosen flower, spring flowers in particular don’t last that long as cut flowers so you will need fresh flowers every week, and we will start to look at composition, tone and colour. How do you want to set up the flower? We will begin to talk about flattening and abstracting the shapes and colours to create the form. Again, I will be painting and demonstrating ideas during the class and questions are very welcome.
Week 3:
A new flower again and we will explore the structure, form and specific character of the flower through the colour and value relationships over the whole painting.
With reference to the previous week, the chosen flower composition and set up will be looked at and discussed. We will concentrate on the importance of colour massing in the painting.
Week 4:
Recap and review of all the major points from the previous weeks, final painting demo of development off the flower painting from the colour massing stage to the final stages of the painting.
Sarah Spackman is a contemporary figurative artist particularly well known for her still life oil paintings. She works from a studio in Oxford that was once a punt building workshop.Strength of drawing and the delicate and subtle use of colour are two of the main qualities recognised in her work. Her practise focuses on the principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting and that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form. Sarah works in a considered way, with close observation. Her paintings are quiet in their presence but nonetheless powerful and engaging to the viewer. These are paintings that take a close look at things around us, take the object out of the ordinary and make the viewer look again.
Sarah trained at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and graduated from Camberwell School of art in 1981. She was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2019, and a member of the Small Paintings Group in 2021. Sarah’s work is in many private collections world wide as well as the collection of the Allied Irish Bank. Her work has also been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Competition , the NEAC, the ROI, the RBA and the Discerning Eye Exhibitions. Sarah exhibits regularly with several galleries throughout the UK.sarahspackman.com
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