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How to Paint Great Watercolour - Trees, Rocks and Water.

Tuesday 25th May 2010 - Thursday 27th May 2010 (Plus Introductory Evening on Monday 24th)

The course enables you to paint realistic landscape. It’s an easy form of teaching to follow, driven by painting beautiful pictures rather than art theory. Each painting is demonstrated in four or five steps. Following each step, the class completes that step on their painting, with one to one and group guidance from Joe. There are tips, techniques and Joe’s unique “sample textures” - how to paint realistic effects for a range of subjects – underwater stones, beach shingle, foliage, and others.

Joe endeavours to fulfil requests for painting methods. There are printed workshop notes so when you go home, you have a good record of how to do the main projects and many of the hints and tips are recorded in detail, so you don’t have to rely on memory.

Millers Dale.
A main prepared project from 2009 – Brand new projects for 2010. 

Monday May 24^th 2010 4.30pm – 6.45pm An evening with the artist. Demonstration. Based on the Lea Brook outside the studio. A beautiful sunlit Woodland River scene demonstrated clearly and simply. 

Tuesday May 25th 2010. 10.00am – 5.00pm. Step by step demonstration and work along, of the Lea Brook as demonstrated on the preview evening. Includes some on site painting just outside the studio. 5.30pm – 6.45pm. Evening demonstration painting – fabulous marine sunset on a famous estuary.  

Wednesday May 26^th 2010. 10.00am – 3.30pm. Step by step demonstration and work along, featuring the sunset estuary as demonstrated previous evening. 4.30pm – 6.30pm Trip to the spectacular Black Rocks, locally. Rough Sketching in situ under Joe’s guidance. Exact timings may change.

Thursday May 27^th 2010. 10.00am – 5.00pm. Step by step demonstration and work along. Based on Black Rocks, Cromford. Joe will demonstrate a landscape painting of Black Rocks and guide everyone through their own painting, as with all these projects. 

All projects for 2010 will be newly developed, and unique to this course.

Projects shown are from 2009 and were specially developed for the Pear Tree Course.

The course is conducted in a friendly and relaxed way. Most work will be studio based, with the likelihood of a little out of doors painting in the immediate environment, or slightly further afield.  

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Three days of watercolour projects using simple methods, demonstrating main principles, and helping painters to excel without demanding too much from them.

There are also many tricks and techniques to pick up. These are used by professional artists, but the same methods can help you achieve some stunning realism in your won work. They are simple once the following is explained:

a) What they are, b) how to do them, and c) why they work so well.

There is a different main project for each day, and additional evening demonstrations,  There will be a little time, spent on location very nearby and also locally around one of Derbyshire’s most spectacular crags, where painters will be shown how to do the roughest of notes and sketches. Joe will demonstrate how to produce finished work from these. Students will be helped to completed three paintings by the end of the course.

Each day features a work-along project. Brief demonstrations of each simplified stage of the projects are followed by guidance from Joe.

This is the “one piece at a time” principle and it gives a real boost to artists at all levels. Demonstration of each step, and one to one support and encouragement for each student are major features of Joes courses.

 “I work fast and demonstrate clearly, which frees me up to concentrate on the student’s paintings. The emphasis is always on their paintings.”

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