Colour Love!

Fed up of creating lacklustre paintings and feeling overwhelmed when choosing and mixing colour? This class is for you!

Would you love to see a colour and know how to mix it? Fed up of creating lacklustre paintings and feeling overwhelmed when choosing and mixing colour? Wasting time mixing colours which turn to mud? This can be so frustrating and holds your painting back! Discover the joy of colour with International Artist Linda Hollingshead, who’s passion in life is colour! Well-known for her friendly, inspirational and enjoyable courses, for this fabulous, colourful workshop! Linda will share her colour expertise from a lifetime of painting. Create your favourite colours with her easy and practical approach to colour. Regardless of your painting medium, come to understand and feel confident when using colour, which will immediately improve and have a beneficial effect on your art. During the workshop we use watercolour and acrylic to understand the techniques and methods which apply to all mediums including oil, coloured pencils and pastel. We cover a variety of working methods and colour mixing. With easy-to-follow painting demonstrations and paint-along exercises. This class will help to build your understanding and develop winning ways of using colour! Discover ways to create mood, atmosphere and colour harmony in your art. Pleasing colour combinations and how to apply these to your own way of painting. Takeaway lots of colour recipes and methods to apply to your future paintings. Round up session - full of valuable ways to apply your new learning and have fun with your art. Linda is on hand throughout to offer help and tips and answer all your colour questions including Q&A sessions. The Workshops Includes ... ● Painting Demonstrations ● Paint-along colour exercises ● How to create clean colour mixes ● Avoiding muddy heaviness in colour mixing ● The benefits of using transparent/ opaque pigments ● Ways to create colour harmony and unity in paintings ● Creating moods and feeling with colour ● Applying colour principles to the paints you already own and use

Skill Level This is for painters of all levels from painting newbies to experienced artists. This is for you if you want to ... ● Feel easy and confident selecting colours for your art. ● Use colours that brings you joy ● Know ways to add strength to your paintings using colour ● Understand how certain colours behave alongside others ● Create a wealth of colour techniques and references for future paintings ● Understand how to select winning colours for a variety of mediums ● Turn your art from drab to delicious and explore expressive mark‑making, dynamic gesture, tonal drama, and the subtle interplay of warm and cool drawing materials. What to bring Materials are provided, including watercolours and acrylics. (however you are welcome to bring your usual colour palette to refer to on the day if you wish). Any problem paintings or ones you are dissatisfied with. Photo references of…