Courses
Explore your romantic quest for art, learning techniques and skills of landscape used by master painters, translating and transgressing the space and atmosphere of our natural surroundings.
One-Day Art Course
This one-day course offers a chance to embrace the history and techniques of the English landscape masters, Turner and Constable.
Develop your skills and experiment with watercolours in the grandeur and elegance of a private sitting room in the 5-star Luton Hoo hotel, a Robert Adam mansion house with formal gardens.
Refreshments and lunch with half a bottle of wine per person will be included.
Course Content
- Painting from the landscape ‘En plain air’ (pioneered by Constable in 1813)
- Experimenting with painting skyscapes and weather indications
- Rapid drawing techniques
- Watercolour grading exercises as used by Turner and Constable
- The History, motivation and rationale of landscape painting
All materials are included in a personal gift package.
Price: £180 per person
Date: TBC
Time: 10am to 4pm
Three-Day Residential Art Course
Study the play of light, reputed to be used by the English landscape masters Constable and Turner, on our three-day art course. Learn the techniques and rationale of landscape painting and drawing with like-minded art lovers in a private sitting room, in the pillared Luton Hoo mansion house hotel.
Breakfast will be included and taken at your leisure, with refreshments and lunch including a half bottle of wine per person served in the private sitting room each day.
Dinner will be served in the award-winning Wernher restaurant, including a half bottle of wine per person, and is included on days one and two. Accommodation in the mansion house for two nights is also included.
Course Content
- ‘En plain air’ - outdoor painting of English landscapes as pioneered by Constable in 1813
- Rapid drawing techniques
- Skyscapes and weather indications
- Grading exercises
- Dry-brush techniques
- Wet in wet variegated wash
- Experimentation and colour mixing
- Studies of views from multiple windows - if weather is poor
All materials will be provided in personal gift package.
Price: £1800 per person
Date: TBC
Time: 10am arrival on day one, 4pm finish on final day
Discover Luton Hoo
Take a look at the gallery to see the stunning landscapes and 5-star beauty of Luton Hoo hotel, the setting for Art London’s unique courses.
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