Mixed media painting - making connections with your environment
Tutor Frances Hatch shares the strategies she employs to engage with a place through its materials and involving all of our senses. You are offered ways of being in a place, whether rural, urban or the home you live in, and how to use materials found in these different environments to create original artwork. You are encouraged to adopt a stance of curiosity about your current practice and, through insight gained over the course, revitalise, energise, and go forward with purpose.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 12 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Suitable for all
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 12 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects.
Access: Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Introduction to your tutor Frances Hatch and workshop overview
Getting started
Workshops
Completion and further information
Getting started
- Equipment, materials, and health and safety
Workshops
- Tuning into your environment
- Responding to your environment
- Collage and composition – integrating unconventional materials
- Working in an urban environment – working with weather
- Working with dynamic environments and integrating materials and imagery
- Series and sequence, timing and atmosphere
Completion and further information
- Ideas going forward
- Further information and resources
Course includes:
You will need:
Equipment
Materials
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Equipment
- Rucksack
- Palette – large and / or small
- Handmade folder to hold your sheets of paper (Frances’s is made from foam board and masking tape and then varnished to protect it from water)
- Something to sit on – yoga block, chair etc
- Water spray bottle
- Metre square of plastic sheeting
- Pot for water
- Selection of brushes
- Optional: Old cheese grater
Materials
- Pencil
- 3 small brushes
- Small container for water
- Water soluble pencils
- Watercolours: 2 reds, blues, yellows, white and black, or a portable watercolour kit
- Graphite stick
- Plastic bags (to collect materials in)
- 2 sheets of kitchen roll
- 6 colours of acrylic paints
- Artist quality mediums to use with acrylic and watercolour – impasto gel, liquid acrylic medium (matt, gloss, or satin)
- Masking tape
- Sketchbooks – various
- Khadi cotton rag paper
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Frances Hatch
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