Course Information

Taking inspiration from the landscape around Ullapool, you will look at different approaches to painting. Using brushes, rags, sandpaper, palette knives and fingers as tools, you will work on sketches and studies which will form the basis of a considerably larger (80 x 120cm) and more resolved painting on a panel. There will be exercises and demonstrations to explore the nature and qualities of oil paint and mediums such as linseed oil, cold wax and damar varnish. Liquin will also be used to accelerate the oil paints’ drying process. Throughout the week you will be encouraged to look at ways of analysing and modifying a painting; observing space, abstraction, colour and texture to create a sense of atmosphere and expression. In doing so, you will develop skills in visual perception and expressive improvisation to find and build your own visual language. Various artists, such as Turner, Cezanne, Mondrian, Gabriele Munter, Joan Eardley and Rachel Arif will be considered.