Field Patterns are a key feature of landscape painting. This workshop could be the next building block in your skills development as a landscape painter! It could be the perfect follow-up both to Painting Trees and Painting Mountains. The medium for this one is not specific though – any medium can be accommodated. This workshop with Jason could be the next building block in your skills development in watercolour landscape painting…
If you can paint field patterns effectively you can make your landscape pictures stretch far into the distance. By gaining some knowledge of what works in terms of structure, shapes and mark-making you can paint extensive landscapes with greater skill and flair, whatever the medium.
Click below to view the list of what you’ll ideally need to bring with you.
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What to expect
Time at ArtisOn is designed to take you away from it all. We provide the environment, the time and the guidance you need to create. You can expect a warm welcome, skilled and friendly tutors and the chance to meet like-minded people keen to share ideas. You can even leave us to clear up the mess! There will usually be two workshops going on and we encourage everyone to mingle and be nosey about what the other workshop is up to.
We encourage you to arrive at 9.30am. This will allow time to meet other participants over a cup of tea or coffee and biscuits before beginning workshops at 10am. There will be a mid-morning break for refreshments and a chance to talk over progress with others. Lunch is usually around 12:45 for about 45 mins – you can expect a delicious homemade 2 course lunch. There will be a further afternoon break with tea or coffee and cake. All food and refreshments are included in the price of your workshop.
The finish time given is a target. There are occasions when the session may overrun so do let us know if you need to be away promptly.
We aim for your day to be a real treat. You could always learn a new skill in a shed or a draughty village hall with a curly sandwich, but we want you to have more fun than that! So we make sure we provide a day where you will be looked after, with good food, good company and great inspiration!
What you’ll need to bring with you
This course can be undertaken in any of the following mediums - watercolour, gouache and acrylic. Please select only one medium to work with on the day.
Please use the following list as a prompt to help you put your kit together for the day. Please do not feel this is a fixed list of materials that you must purchase. If you already have watercolour, gouache or acrylic painting equipment then it's likely to be adequate for the day.
The follow list is for watercolour - please adapt for other mediums....
Drawing Equipment
A soft graphite pencil eg2b
A pencil sharpener
An erasure
Accessories
Masking tape
Several sheets of kitchen roll
A kitchen cloth - the blue type you clean your work benches down with
Watercolour palette
Water pots
Brushes
A wash brush
Large round approximately size 12 or 14
Flat chisel edged nylon brush also about half an inch wide.
Selection of smaller brushes you may have, including a size six if possible.
Paper
Watercolour paper cut or ripped down to approximately half imperial sheets size [ A2] or quarter of a full sheet [A3]this paper can be loose or in a pad. Please bring about 10 sheets of paper
Advise not [cold pressed] surface140lb / 300gsm. This is the standard surface quality of student papers like Bockingford and Langton sold in pads.
Several sheets of cartridge paper or computer printing paper . These will be used to practise brush strokes and sketch out tree shapes.
Colours
These are the colours that Jason includes in his own palette but they can be adapted.
Cobalt Blue
Lemon Yellow
Cadmium Red
Ultramarine Blue
Cadmium Yellow
Quinacridone Magenta / Permanent Rose (If you have an Alizarin Crimson this will work fine)
Prussian Blue
Cerulean blue
Cobalt Turquoise Light
Raw Sienna
Raw Umber
Burnt Sienna
Viridian Green
Burnt Umber
Titanium white
Chinese white
Reference Material
If you have images of rolling landscape with field patters stretching out into the distance then please bring them to the workshop.
Jason has images of distant field patterns that can be used in the workshop.