The Sailing Club in Clevedon is the venue for my latest workshop – Soft Pastels using Monet as our inspiration. Here is the link for further information and to book your place https://www.clevedonartclub.co.uk/workshopsclasses

Last few spaces for summer workshops…

Please use my contact page to book your place. https://tinadoddart.com/contact/

CHARCOAL/PASTELS

Tuesday 29th July, 2pm – 5pm, GT Room, Village Hall, Shipham BS25 1SG

Cost £30 for the afternoon.

Beginning with some fun warm-up exercises we will then embark on some interesting drawings, which will involve working in ways that you may no have worked before…… We will work on ordinary white cartridge paper, black paper and toned papers using charcoal, chalk and rubbers along with our soft coloured pastels. Expect to work on a large scale some of the time and expect the unexpected!

ANNUAL ACRYLICS DAY

Tuesday 5th August, 10.30 – 3.30, GT Room, Village Hall, Shipham BS25 1SG

Cost £50 for the day.

Always informative, colourful and fun.

We will make a colour wheel and also look at how adding white and black paints to our colours can produce tints, tones and shades. This is one of the ways in which it differs from watercolour and is an exciting way of working.
Some interesting warm-up exercises will follow – using acrylic paint with water; using it neat; layering; blocks of colour; working with a palette knife and other equipment…
For the rest of the session we will focus on a) using different techniques for painting landscapes/seascapes/mountains and b) painting pictures of birds and/or animals full of colour and movement both of which will produce some surprising results for you! (Although if you have a burning desire to paint a particular subject by all means bring reference material for that as well. We can apply the techniques learned to most subject matters!).

OUTDOOR SKETCHING DAY

Wednesday 20th August, 10.30 – 3.30 Clevedon seafront and St. Andrew’s Church on the hill. (Wedmore is our back up plan).

Cost £30 for the day.

Always a different experience drawing and painting outdoors but very rewarding. We will take a small outdoor sketching kit with us to include pen & pencil, sketchbook and watercolours and small number of coloured pencils/inktense/pastels.

How do you know what to draw when you are faced with a big open landscape, seascape or vista? And how do we go about drawing/painting it? We will begin with some warm-up sketches in pencil/coloured pencils and these will be fairly swiftly drawn. It’s amazing what you can produce when you have a time limit! You will then decide what you would like to sketch and spend more time drawing and painting your chosen viewpoint with hints and tips from me along the way.