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Saturday 9th December
11am to 4pm
A Saturday workshop at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
A waterfall in full flood is one of the most exciting things to paint. We will learn to paint brush strokes that really go with the flow of rushing water. To make the waterfall convincing involves understanding the supporting landscape, light, and especially the tonal contrasts. We will look at how this has been achieved by American and European artists before painting our own pictures. For full details and booking visit http://www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 11th November
11am to 4pm
A Saturday workshop at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Paint a small concertina card/book in acrylic and acrylic paint pens, and make an origami closure band. This is an excellent way to experiment with a panoramic composition. We’ll cut and fold the book then choose a limited palette of colours and shapes to provide interest and also continuity from page to page. These make delightful Christmas gifts or unique cards. You may choose to work in a representational way or in a more abstract way with repeated shapes and patterns as in the sample illustrated. For full details and booking visit http://www.nordenfarm.org
Six Wednesdays: October 25, November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
10am to 12am
An online drawing course
Explore a variety of surfaces and techniques for drawing; frottage over found and made surfaces; drawing over sandpaper; impressing and white line drawing; sgraffito with pastel, oil pastel or wax crayon; tracer prints using oil pastel or printing ink; using straight and curved edges or hand-made stencils to make defined areas of tone. There will be drawing in real time and demonstrations/slide shows at each session together with reviews of work done at the class and completed in your own time. You will be invited to send an image of finished work for inclusion at the end of a blog post published each week with practical ideas on materials and technique.
For full details and booking contact Jo by E-mail.
Six Tuesdays: October 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21, 28
12.30pm to 3.30pm
A short painting course at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Be inspired by the colder months to create winter river and garden paintings with a limited palette. Use watercolour, gouache or pastel to paint icy riverbanks and frosted trees and plants spangled with bright berries. Take in the difference of reflections seen in water and ice and the effects of “broken” water. For full details and booking please visit http://www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 14th October
11.00am to 4.00pm
A Saturday workshop at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Paint a picture on black paper in white gouache and/or watercolour and experiment with metallic and interference colours. Good subjects include a moth or an iridescent insect, iridescent fish or translucent water creatures like plankton and shrimp. You may work from your own reference or from photo-reference supplied. Some beautiful black Stonehenge watercolour paper will be supplied at cost from the tutor. For full details and booking visit http://www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 30th September
11.00am to 4.00pm
A Saturday workshop at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Using granulating colours gives interesting texture to watercolour paintings. In this workshop you will learn more about what causes granulation; which colours granulate, what mixtures of colour granulate; how to use granulating medium; and what super-granulating colours are, and then paint an imaginative landscape, or an intuitive or abstract composition using granulation techniques. For full details and booking visit http://www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September
10.00am to 5.00pm
This is is always a wonderful showcase for artists working in and around Maidenhead.
Jo will be showing paintings, drawings and prints at her venue .
Morar, Altwood Close, Maidenhead SL6 4PP
For details of everyone taking part which includes artists working in glass, ceramics, textiles and jewelry visit www.camat.org.uk
September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11
Six Wednesdays 10am to 12am
An online drawing and painting course
We’ll paint and draw water birds in and out of the water, taking note of their different forms and behaviour and how they relate pictorially to their surroundings: reflections, movement and wave creation, camouflaged or contrasting etc. Birds for study include; duck, goose, swan, grebe, heron, moorhen or coote. There will be drawing in real time from slide shows and discussions/reviews of work done, and short demonstrations where appropriate. More finished work will be completed in your own time in the medium of your choice and you will be encouraged to get out and draw birds locally. For full information and booking contact Jo by E-mail.
Six Tuesdays: September 5, 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10
12.30pm to 3.30pm
A short course at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Negative painting involves painting around shapes and objects rather than painting the objects themselves. Very beautiful layered effects can be made in this way inspired by subjects like trees in a forest and overlapping cascades of leaves. Starting with simple shapes we will also discover ways of painting more abstract compositions in a similar way, or by using found and made masks. Watercolour is excellent for this but acrylic used as fluid washes also works well and there is no danger of lower layers lifting. Full details can be seen and bookings made by visiting http://www.nordenfarm.org
25th April to 30th May
Six Tuesdays 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Glazing techniques historically used with oil paints can be much more rapidly achieved in acrylic. It is also very easy to incorporate collaged elements. This course explores ways to include collage and how to apply glazes to painted and collaged areas. Starting with some experimental exercises, over the six weeks we will go on to create works with a variety of subject matter; still life, landscape, building or interior.
Heavy weight mixed media paper and small off-cuts of mount board will be available from the tutor at cost. Please bring your own materials. To find detailed info on materials and to book your place visit: www.nordenfarm.org
22nd April
Saturday Workshop 11.00am to 4.00pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Maidenhead SL6 4PF
A colour mixing workshop to help you mix colours for rocky landscapes, stone walls, weathered surfaces and shadows etc. These are also invaluable for still life studies involving neutral stoneware or dried seed heads. These coloured greys mixed from primary colours, complementary colours or as the title suggests from blue and brown can give a painting unity where the pigments used appear elsewhere in the work. Colour mixing exercises will be followed by painting a grey or rocky landscape or grey still life object. Landscape reference supplied or bring your own. Please bring your own materials.
For detailed info on materials and to book your place visit: www.nordenfarm.org
11th March 11.00am to 4.00pm
Saturday Workshop
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Colour mixing exercises followed by a landscape painting.
“I haven’t got the right green.”, “I can’t mix the right green.”, or “This green is unnatural.”, are frequent comments I hear at landscape sessions. This workshop will help you to use primary colours to mix the greens you need and also how to tame some of the fiercer greens in your box to create really useful natural looking greens by mixing with other colours. Reference supplied or bring your own. Please bring your own materials. To find more info on materials and to book your place visit: www.nordenfarm.org
From Thursday 2nd March
An online course exploring ways of working on black paper using wet and dry media.
Start time for all meetings is 10.00am
First meeting Thursday 2nd March
Followed by five Wednesdays: Mar 8, 15, 22, 29, Apr 5
The price for the course of six sessions is £90.00
Group size limited to twelve participants.
If you would like to join this course please contact Jo at
E-mail: johall@mhstudios.co.uk
for further info and booking details.
28th February to 4th April
Six Tuesdays 11.00am to 3.30pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Choosing a different coloured paper for each session we explore how paper colour can be exploited as part of the composition. Within this we will look at line, tone, form, mark making, texture and pattern using a variety of drawing media. Initially working from still life objects, the first week from natural forms e.g. a sea shell or fruit, later in the course there will be an opportunity to draw a landscape in colour or make a portrait study using the three-crayon technique. Objects will be supplied for the first session or bring a natural form you would like to draw.
Please bring your own materials. For detailed info on materials and to book your place visit www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday Workshop 4th February 11.00am to 4.00pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Spring Flowers in Pastel or Pastel Pencil
Paint cheerful spring flowers in pastel and/or pastel pencil. Daffodils will be available or bring your own flowers and container. Coloured paper works well for this and some will be available at cost. Please bring your own materials. For detailed info on materials and to book your place go to www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 14th January 11.00am to 4.00pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Saturday 14th January 11.00am to 4.00pm
Paint a winter garden full of snow in watercolour or gouache. This calls for a limited palette and large tonal contrasts. We will explore painting snow clad trees and how we really notice any colour from berries etc. when much of the scene is almost monochrome. Reference supplied or bring your own. Please bring your own materials.
To book your place and find detailed info on materials please go to the Box Office at: www.nordenfarm.org
Start date: 10th January, End date: 14th February:
Six Tuesdays 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead, SL6 4PF
One of the most inspiring features of our land and city-scape, bridges from stepping stones to mighty suspension bridges have caught the imagination of the greatest artists including Turner and Whistler. Starting with the humbler and smallest we’ll explore painting several kinds of bridges in rural and city settings. Please bring your own materials. Some references will be supplied and you will be encouraged to bring your own.
For full info on materials and to book your place go to
Saturday 23rd July
Paint a flower larger than life in acrylic, referencing the flower paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Blooms supplied or bring your own flower together with your own materials as outlined in the information on the Norden Farm site.
11.00am to 4.00pm
at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road,Maidenhead, SL6 4PF
Tickets £40 from the Box Office at
www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 10th December
11.00am to 4.00pm
At Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Paint a blackbird or a cheeky robin or other small bird on white or tinted paper. Gouache is particularly useful for working on coloured papers but watercolour and a tube of permanent white gouache will work just as well. We will be painting on paper as small as three by four inches up to about five by seven inches or similar size square formats. Some photo reference will be provided or bring your own.
Details of materials to bring and booking info can be found at http://www.nordenfarm.org
Saturday 19th November
11.00am to 4.00pm
At Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead SL6 4PF
Working with chunky drawing materials graphite, charcoal or tinted versions of these, draw a tree or group of trees on white or toned A2 paper, or larger. You may also work in earth colours of conte crayon and bring less chunky versions of the same materials for finishing touches or texture details. Photo reference will be provided or bring your own.
Details of materials to bring and booking info can be found at http://www.nordenfarm.org
Contact Jo by e-mail: johall@mhstudios.co.uk for more details of any of these events.