penninepainting.co.uk

What’s included

Materials

We have a good stock of drawing and painting materials including oils, acrylics, dry pastels, oil pastels, watercolour, graphite pencils, coloured pencils, charcoal and sketching paper and drawing boards at no extra cost. We can also provide some outdoor sketching easels but please check availability if you are planning not to bring your own. If you wish to bring your own favorite materials and equipment that’s fine.

Other materials such as brushes, palettes and canvases/prepared boards watercolour paper and large drawing paper are generally not included in the price but can be purchased from Lionel as needed. If you want to order specific canvas and board sizes in advance please email your request to us and we will quote you a price.

Refreshments

Morning and afternoon fairtrade tea and coffee along with delicious home-made cakes and biscuits will be provided during the day. A light lunch is also included in the price.

Wine is provided during evening slide shows.

What’s not included

At present we are only able to offer non-residential courses. For a choice of local accommodation and provision of main meals, do look at the places to stay and places to eat pages for a list of options. We’re more than happy to help you with bookings.

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Art Holidays

Pennine Painting 2011 Programme

Dates CourseTitle Price

Jun 3 – 5Flower Meadows and River Banks. £177

Sketch in a variety of media along the Pennine Way following the river South Tyne from Garrigill. A wide range of summer colours in flowers, fields, moorland fells, river and waterfalls. Back at Rose House Studio develop your impressions into a finished painting of your own design.

July 25-28Outdoor Environmental Art £225

Explore the natural materials of the North Pennine landscapes around Alston Moor by making 2-D and 3-D art works in –situ, then photograph and print the results. Study the works of celebrated British environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy for poetic visual inspiration and practical ideas for harnessing light and the weather.

Aug 27-30 Abstract Painting from Sketches £225

Capture the feel of natural energies and forms on sketching walks on and off the Pennine Way in the village and out in the valleys and hills. Develop these into powerful abstract and semi-abstract paintings back in Rose House Studio. Visit the annual village gala too for added inspiration!

Oct 7-10 Auden’s Favourite Landscapes £225

Visit a variety of North Pennine landscapes beloved of poet W.H.Auden. Sketch and paint abandoned mine workings as well as Hadrian’s Wall, then make painting responses back in the warmth of the studio.

Nov11-13 Meditations on the Object £177

Absorb your mind in the endless possibilities of drawing and painting from carefully chosen objects arranged in controlled light. Learn about composition, colour balance, colour contrasts, light and shade and see how artists from Chardin to Cezanne and Picasso used still life to meditate on the object.

New this year

French Alps Sept 15-19 Alpine Landscape and Town £340- £480

Join Lionel in a traditional chalet in the charming Alpine village of La Clusaz in the Aravis Mountain region of the French Alps just 1 hours drive south from Geneva. 4 days of sketching and painting in the alpine foothills (think: The Sound of Music) and in Annecy, the ‘Venice’ of the Alps. Price inc. full board and local trans., excl. flights.