Summer Art Classes, Courses and Workshops

Bookings now being taken - please contact me via the BOOKING FORM in the first instance or email me with any queries. All classes, courses and workshops run by Josie Tipler.

UPDATE - some classes cancelled due to insufficient bookings, see below for classes still running. If you are unable to make a class but would be interested in some individual tuition (prices start at £12) please get in touch.

Drawing and Painting Pet Portraits from photographs

Tuesdays 7-9pm

21 August cancelled, 28 August cancelled

Other one to one sessions available - please ask for fees and possible dates.

Tuesdays, 7-9pm 

We will look at planning the initial sketches, how to get shapes and proportions correct, different mediums including pencil, chalk pastel, acrylics on paper and on canvas, and will concentrate on details including eyes, fur, paws etc. I will provide reference pictures but you are also encouraged to bring your own pictures.

Location – Pickhams in Wilmington. Limited number of spaces.

£6 per person per session. Bring your own materials and equipment.

You may book for individual sessions but be aware that we will cover different aspects on each session which will not be repeated.

Chalk Pastel, Breaking the rules!

Saturdays 10am – 1pm

4 August, [11 August cancelled], 18 August, 25 August

We will look mainly at still life work, using pastels to sketch onto large sheets of paper and concentrating on interesting form, shape, texture and colour rather than the technical skills such as perspective.

                                                                                   

Location – Pickhams in Wilmington. Limited number of spaces.

£9 per person per session. Bring your own materials and equipment.

You may book for individual sessions but be aware that we will cover different aspects on each session which will not be repeated.

CLASS - Vorticists, Black & White designs

Friday, 3 August 2012

2-5 pm

We will look at some the works of the Vorticists including Wyndham_lewis

(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/wyndham-lewis-1502)

and will create a design in a similar style using black ink and a brush or pen

Location: Pickhams, Wilmington

£9 per person. Bring your own materials and equipment.

Garden scenes

Wednesdays, 10am – 1pm

[8 August - cancelled due to weather], 15 August, 22 August, 29 August

Wednesdays, 10am – 1pm 

Working in the gardens of Pickhams in Wilmington, we will look at sketching in pencil, pastel and charcoal, working up to a finished piece in the medium of your choice.

Location: Pickhams in Wilmington – outdoors in the gardens. Weather dependant. In the event of bad weather we can work inside from photographs but space will be limited.

£9 per person per class. Bring your own materials and equipment.
(If you would like just to come and paint - £2.50 without tuition)

CLASS - Printing with Polystyrene and Acrylics

Friday, [10 August 2012  cancelled][I ate all that pizza for nothing :)]

2-5 pm

Using acrylic paint and polystyrene pizza bases we will put recycling to the ultimate artistic challenge! We will work up sketches then ‘engrave’ the designs into polystyrene then produce prints in one or 2 colours depending on time.

Bring your own acrylic paints, brushes, pencils, sketching paper and paper to print on. I will provide the pizza bases (it’s a tough job but someone has to do it).

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington

£9 per person. 

CLASS - Pencil details - eyes, hands, feet

Friday, 17 August 2012 - only a few places left

2-5 pm

Using photographs and self-portraits we will look at those tricky details using graphite pencil on cartridge paper. Bring a mirror.

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington

£9 per person.  Bring your own materials and equipment.

CLASS - Textured seascapes in acrylics

Friday, 24 August 2012

2-5 pm

Using acrylics on canvas board with either texture paste or pollyfilla, we will create a textured sunset seascape from reference photos.

Location – Pickhams, Wilmington

£9 per person.  Bring your own materials and equipment.

Workshops - WORKING LARGE!

Thursdays 7-9 pm

2 August, 9 August, 16 August, 23 August

Arlington Arts Group – Stand alone Art sessions and workshops

Working on landscapes (from photos) or still life on A1 sheets of paper and mountcard using acrylics, oil pastels or chalk pastels. Loosening up, being bold with form and colour, sketching with a brush.

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Location – Arlington Village Hall. Limited number of places

£6 per person per session (£4 for Arlington Arts Group regulars). Bring your own materials and equipment – tables provided but you may want to bring a board and easel. You may book for individual sessions. Please note that Arlington Arts Group regulars may still come along to the usual art sessions and not take part in the workshop.

NB: Children (8-15) are welcome to take part in the classes when accompanied each by an adult. Full fees apply to adults and children.

Latest commission – progress shots

 

         

My studio

 

More trees

 

Well, I started painting treescapes long before I’d even heard of The Bigger Picture so I’m quite happy carrying on with this particular theme. I’ve now got 6 finished in a similar style (2 are on show in the window of Jingles, that used to be, in Hailsham High Street opposite Iceland– hopefully until 20th May) and another 2 lined up when I can afford 2 buy a couple more large square canvases. This is my latest, started at an Art Group session a few weeks back and finally completed today.  Most of these are based on photos I’ve taken in Abbots Wood, one of my favourite places in the whole world. In fact, think I might head off there shortly with the dog!

Oily nebula

 

     

I’d started this picture months back and spent hours using mixed media of all sorts and ended up with the rather bland image (top left) that wasn’t really one thing or another. I have a demonstration coming up in which I’ll be using acrylics and alkyd oil so I wanted to get the alkyd oils out again to have a practice. This seemed a god candidate and I was really pleased with the effects in pic 2 – this kind of effect had taken hours in a mi of ink, acrylic and pastel and here I’d achieved it in about 10 minutes. Soft blends, transparent mists – all very nebulaic. But there’s still no focal point so I worked on with a fine brush and white oil, blending in with a large soft brush, then finally adding a touch of blue to the top and left clouds and some extra deep paynes grey to get back a bit of the contrast. The entire cloud formations of the orginal picture have changed – there is a focal point to the finished piece but I actually prefer the set together. Shame I didn’t paint 6 of them..

Summer Classes - dates + details

As the sun is out and I had time to sit in the garden with my calendar, I have set up my schedule of clases for the summer, starting on 3rd July.

Have a look at the dates and details on the EVENTS page.
My classes are open to all ages and abilities (under 16's accompanied by an adult please) and I have included a wide variety of subjects and media.

• Pet Portraits
• Chalk Pastels - Breaking the rules
• Vorticist style - black and white designs
• Garden Scenes
• Big & Bold
• Printing with Polystyrene and Paint
• Detailed pencil work - eyes, hands and feet
• Textured Seascapes

and more....

2 hour Classes are £6 per person, 3 hour classes are £9 per person. For courses of classes, such as the Pet Portraits, you can book for individual classes rather than the whole coure but be aware that we will cover different aspects of the subject on every class.