Plein Air Landscape Painting in Oils with Jill Carver

Description - Jill will be teaching students how to Focus On Design - Plein Air. We will most likely start each morning at the HQ for a coffee & a bite to eat. Full itinerary will follow with exact locations and more. This workshop will start at 9am each morning and finish at 4pm - with a 1 hour lunch break. The location of this workshop will be: Our base location is Craven Hall, Sackville Street, Skipton, BD23 2PB, England. This is a short drive from the Rosemary & Co Workshop. We will be in the Yorkshire Dales painting throughout the week. Medium: Oil Number of students: This class is limited to 17 students. Experience: Advanced-beginner to advanced-level painters (NB: you must be an experienced and a regular painter to fully benefit from this class Included in this workshop is 5 days tuition, all your lunches, easels, paper towels, gloves and two evening meals. This price also includes 20% VAT. Non-painting partners are welcome at no extra fee, though if they’d like food etc. then there may be a small charge. Levels: Advanced-beginner to advanced-level painters (NB: you must be an experienced and a regular painter to fully benefit from this class) Jill Carver will take her teaching of design ‘tools’ outdoors into the glorious Yorkshire landscape. She will discuss techniques aimed to resolve and strengthen concepts, establish intention, and improve overall design. The aim is to help students advance their landscape painting beyond just the rendering of a ‘scene’. Students will realize that true creativity lies in the design decisions that we make; that the exploration of the ‘what if’s’ is where the fun is; and that adjusting design according to subject matter, and concept, will push them beyond just applying process. Each day we will visit a different location to explore a specific design concept. We will be focusing on: division and placement armatures (beyond the usual 1/3rd grids etc.); the power of shape; notan; value management (tone); and colour management. There will be demos and group discussion/brainstorming each day in the field, so that students feel confident exploring the structured task each day. These tools will aid students moving forward with either plein air or studio work.