Painting in Spain
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PAINTERS' NOTES

One of the greatest challenges of running the Painting in Spain courses is to achieve the objectives which I set myself for the week of the course. In simple terms these are for students -

• To learn new skills

• Collect lots of information in sketch books

• Clarify a direction in their artwork

• Maybe produce some finished work

• To build confidence and become more self directed

• Enjoy themselves and leave for home enthusiastic and wanting to do more…

This is a tall order in one week so to help achieve this I have produced a collection of Painters notes that can be used as reference after the painting holiday hopefully taking away the pressure of remembering everything that is said during the week.

Based on many years experience both as an practicing artist and as a teacher I have written notes as comprehensive and as clear as I can on key areas. If you click on the subtitles below you will be able to open the PDF files and print them off.

FOUNDATION COURSE NOTES
Colour theory
Colour properties and mixing
Colour psychology
Choosing colours for your own painting
Composition
What to paint

LIFE DRAWING AND PAINTING
How to draw the figure

A NEW LOOK AT LANDSCAPE
Looking at landscape
Perspective in landscape

                                                                              © 2008Tom Brown