I taught a Community Arts class on Friday, at GS Artists, part of the 9to90 Creative Community programme. The topic was painting an imaginary landscape in acrylics, onto canvas board, in 2 hours. I referred to David Hockney’s landscapes for inspiration. The compositions he uses can be fairly simple, the colours intense, and the use of patterns fabulous. I’ve done a couple of my own and used them during the class to show what can be achieved. This is the painting (above) I did at the class. I work alongside my students and it’s good for me, I get to practice what I preach.
I took along a couple I did a while back, one I painted en plein air in the Lake District, the other completely off the top of my head.
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Thank you, when I’m doing my own work I agonise over everything and it takes me ages, but when I teach, I actually do what I’m telling other people and I often get quite good results
Love this