Brand New Six week Wednesday class!

Course Fees £240 [storepage page=’details’ cid=’1074587′ atc=’true’]

Dates May 20th to June 24th 2015

Time:10.30am to 2.30pm.

Come have six weeks of fun with an outdoor painting group with John Myer (for more on John Myers click here).

Join John and paint river and city views as seen on the Big Painting Challenge. You will be painting in a group in little known locations off the beaten track along the Thames in London.

Choose the medium of your choice. We will provide you with an easel, stool and boards, and you can buy a materials pack with everything you need in the medium of your choice directly from us or if you prefer can come along with your own materials.

Thames III by John Myers, 2012 Oil on canvas

"The tradition of landscape painting is as alive as ever, and is one the best ways, not only to learn the basics, but to develop a pictorial language of your own. And what could be a better place to set up one's easel and confront the great out doors, than along the Thames"    John Myers 2015 at The Essential School of Painting

More on the course:

This plein air course will take place along the river at King’s Stairs Gardens, not far from Rotherhithe station, where there is huge choice of outstanding views.

John Myer in his London studio

Much emphasis will be placed on the handling of the paint and seeing the forms in relation to the spacial content of the painting. The student will learn to freely and decisively structure directly with paint, often with large directional brush strokes in an effort to capture the ever changing light, the movement in the sky and the shadows on the landscape.

Students will be provided with individual tutoring on the spot, and there will be a group “crit” at the end of each session, enabling each one to develop his or her individual painting insight. Much importance will be given to such pictorial qualities as movement, structure, luminosity, and spacial tension.

All the technical difficulties of working with Oil, Acrylic and  Water-colour will be addressed.