Overview
This one day workshop will guide students through basic concepts of abstraction using a still life as subject matter. Experienced tutor and professional painter, Ochre Lawson, will lead students through a series of abstraction exercises based on master artists to help you understand abstract compositional ideas and basic colour theory.
You will learn:
- Skills in observation and simplification of form
- How to see line and form and break up space
- Compositional ideas around weight of shapes
- How to create a sense of depth in abstraction
- Basic colour theory
- About different brush strokes and applications of paint
- About different abstract artists and their approach