Description
Achieve a better understanding of light and colour through painting from life with international award winning artist and outdoor oil painting specialist Leon Holmes
In this workshop we will focus on making outdoor painting (Plein Air) enjoyable and easily accessible. We will explore composition (what and why to paint it) and I will explain how to strip that subject back to its simplest forms. Then we will delve deeper into understanding how light affects colour and how to transfer all of that quickly onto the canvas using a luscious, jucy paint application to really show off the qualities of oil paint. (Weather permitting, we will venture outdoors to put these lessons into practice.)
I am forever having students tell me that their head is exploding with information and that I have opened their minds to a whole new way of painting.
About Leon Holmes
Leon Holmes is an multi international award-winning Australian artist, lecturer and ambassador, who has made himself a global name as being one of the most enthusiastic and successful professionals of his trade - Plein Air Oil Painting.
The majority of Leon’s works are painted from life ‘Plein Air’ (in the open) and are capturing the beauty of natural light and colour and a diversity of subjects eg. landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes, still lifes and portraits.
Leon is regularly invited to exhibit and teach at events around the world, working alongside the elite of professional Plein Air Artists. His work is displayed in galleries and collected all around the globe, including the honour of hanging in the Australian Consulate NYC and alongside the paintings of the old Dutch Masters in the Katwijk Museum in Holland.
by Sharon M.
Absolutely brilliant workshop. Leon was full of energy & an inspiration. He simplified the whole en Plein Air experience for me. GVery generous with his knowledge and had plenty of tips on process, equipment & techniques, making it as easy as possible to paint outdoors. I feel confident now to include en Plein Air as part of my regular painting practise.
