Workshop outline Participants will benefit from personal tuition and live demonstrations. Participants will also get to take home their creations in a protective transparent sleeves. All workshops are design for 10-12 people for one day. All ages and levels are welcome. 1) Abstract watercolours with Emma Plunkett Participants will learn how to [...]
The Sacred Feminine Last week I spent two days at the best art lectures I have ever been to, with an artist teacher, the lost YBA (Young British Artist). He’s the one who threw his entire graduate show in a skip the night before the opening and went off-radar for twenty-five years. I'd like to [...]
This step by step guide will help you to make quality art prints that resemble the colours of your original artwork! Before I start, I just want to say - nothing beats experiencing artwork in the flesh but these tips will help you to create art prints, as close as you can to the original [...]
Watercolour painting is a good way to relax and take your mind off other matters. In this class you learn how to paint a portrait of the person of your choice, it could even be of yourself. Materials and techniques We will work using liquid watercolours on heavy weight watercolour paper to begin with. Starting [...]
This painting workshop is about digging deep and seeing your soul reflected in a piece of art. The thing to realise it, that whatever you decide to paint, you will automatically reflect back part of your soul, as is the nature of making original art. I will gently guide you with the materials and techniques [...]
Cyanotype workshop Fancy sharing in my passion for cyanotypes? I teach this historical, alternative photographic printing process, from my art studio. The location is out the back of my quirky, agricultural townhouse in Vélez de Benaudalla, in the province of Granada - a quiet, ancient, Andalusian, town. You will be guided and supported every step of the [...]
Familiarise yourself with the colour wheel The best way of getting to know the colour wheel, off by heart, is to paint your own. Do this exercise of mixing vivid colours and painting them each in place. You can add more white as you go towards the centre and add more black to each colour [...]
Just a note on what is required from the photographer of an art exhibition. Identify what camera and equipment you will be using, send the make and model number. This is so it is known what kind of photographs to expect. Style Familiarise yourself with previous exhibition photos, look at these from the 9th Competa Art [...]
This is by no means a complete list or guide, it's just some tips I have picked up, that work for me, to make life easy along the way :) Making Buy or find ample art materials. Choose materials that you love to play with. Remember that you have everything you need around you to [...]
This is María with her painting. I nearly cried when I saw her first watercolour all finished and in the frame. It is so beautiful, so strong and so confident. She has been coming to watercolour classes for just 3 sessions. Learn Watercolour Techniques – María has several pieces on the go at the same time [...]
This video illustrates what it’s like doing an sculpture class with me. In this case we were making papier maché sculptures in a villa in Spain.
