Painting Light

Course Number: ARTS1278

Please note: This course is not suitable for beginners.
Turner's dashing, daring sea, sky and weather scenes of 1840 seem fresh and modern even to contemporary eyes. Learn to paint this magical quality of light, capturing the world as luminous movement in colour and gesture. In your choice of the naturalistically real or abstract image, you will employ J.M.W. Turner's practice of layering. Build the texture of the painting through techniques of texturing, scraping, floating, scumbling, glazing, and wiping to balance translucent and opaque colour for effects of glow, opalescence and luminosity. Turner's sketching methods will be employed to create large work in oil or acrylic. Explore contemporary applications for a personal and creative interpretation from Turner's influence on Monet, the Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists. Instruction is suited to acrylic and/or oil paints (no solvents).

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