An online drawing and painting class that will show you ways of capturing skyscapes inspired by J.M.W Turner...
About this Event

J.M.W TURNER: Painting Skies

RECORDING ONLY: Available to watch immediately once booked until the 2nd Feb 2025 11:59pm GMT

Taught by Frances Stanfield

Our classes are always pay what you can!

Join Frances' online watercolour class which focusses on Turner's paintings of skies. A vast and beautiful subject, we will learn from the master himself by making copies of his clouds, sunsets, sunrises, moonscapes and rainbows covered in wind, rain, fog and transferring these skills to our own works.

Watercolour is the perfect medium to capture the changing effects of weather - vast spaces of hazy, billowing and ambiguous shapes. We will have a lot of fun trying recreating Turner's very physical and experimental processes.

There is so much to learn from just this one theme!

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, this class will provide you with an abundance of ideas and techniques including how to manipulate your brushwork, layer colours, how to lay down various washes, splattering, stopping out, all with guidance from tutor and artist Frances Stanfield.

Frances will be teaching from her studio in London.

Suggested Materials:

(If you don't have all of the materials below we still recommend you join us with whatever you have, you may wish to buy some materials after watching the class and you can always paint along again with the recording access.)

Any size paper that can hold water and paint, such as watercolour paper.

Top Tip: Lining paper (for walls) from a DIY shop is the closest we can get to the texture of Turner's paper today and a lot cheaper than watercolour paper! Just bare in mind this lining paper changes colour when exposed to light. Precut enough paper from the roll before the class so that you can just keep painting!

A pencil

Ideally watercolours. If you don't have any watercolours, you could also join the class with acrylic or gouache.

Brushes - a range of brushes would be ideal but at minimum one round brush approximately 0.5cm will do and a larger 1 inch flat brush ( even a cheap decorating brush will do)

A pot/glass of water to clean your brush

A rag (a dish cloth or bit of an old t-shirt)or a sponge and/or tissue/kitchen roll

Something to mix your paints on, your watercolours may come with a pan or you can use a plate/tile or you can use a plate/tile or if you're using acrylic paints just some cardboard.

Optional:

White gouache (If you have white gesso or white acrylic, you can use those instead)
Masking fluid (or a white wax crayon if you can't get this)

This class is suitable for all levels

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class:

Tickets:

We suggest an amount of £20. However, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we may continue to offer our sessions on this basis whilst also giving our tutors a sustainable wage.

There is also a ticket option to "Pay It Forward" to support us and our students! We offer classes for free to those who can't afford the minimum amount (If this is you please email us to join for free). This continues to ensure our classes are available to everyone!

Once booked:

You will receive a confirmation email and be able to access information on how to join the event via your eventbrite "Online Event Page" You can access this by signing into eventbrite or creating an account using the email address that you booked with.

In the Class:

You can't be seen or heard in our classes, your audio and video are automatically turned off and there's no way these can be turned on. You can talk to us and others in the class in the chat box!

We love to see your drawings or anything else our classes inspire! You can share them with us by tagging us on instagram (@londondrawinggroup & @frances.stanfield) or emailing us if you don't have socials.

IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL :

[email protected]

About the Tutor

Frances is an artist and co-founder of London Drawing Group. She works across drawing, printmaking and painting. She studied Illustration at Falmouth College University and met Luisa and Lucy, the other co-founders of LDG, during a scholarship place at The Royal Drawing School Central. She is author of "The Drawing Ideas Book" and "The Printmaking Ideas Book".

Frances' teaching practice utilises traditional drawing techniques and experimentation alongside an open and friendly approach with the hope that she will help you to draw and make art with confidence (whilst having fun!). "(Frances) consistently searches for something from her avid practice of changing media. Her method of working inspires her students." - LDG Student.

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And that's it!

We're really looking forward to you joining us.

Love,

LDG