Ballinglen En Plein Air 2022: A series of three Summer one-day workshops

From a painter's point of view learn how our vision responds to colour and its relationship to light - this will bring us to an examination of prismatic hues, earth tone colours and the colour systems. Please bring the following colours: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Red Medium, Raw Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, and Venetian Red. Also bring palette paper, a metal palette knife, 2-3 brushes of your choice, a small canvas or canvas board. Bring either Acrylic or Oil paint. If you plan on using oil paints, please bring linseed oil, and white spirit.

DRAWING INTO PAINTING with painter Patricia Burns
Still life with particular attention on composition and structure. Patricia will set up a large still life for the first part of the day to look at composition, negative/positive space including examination of still life painting by Cezanne and Pissaro for inspiration. The second part will be painting directly from objects. Bring: canvas, the bigger the better! and acrylic paint, brushes, palette.

Paint a portrait alongside Mick. You will work from life with a local model to paint a portrait in one sitting. Tuition /advice on canvas, brushes and mixing colours. Bring acrylic or oil: white, yellow ochre, ultramarine, alizarin crimson, lemon yellow and other colours if you wish, brushes, palette, canvas, board or paper.