Spend two hours exploring bold, textural acrylic landscapes using palette knives. This relaxed meetup covers composition, colour mixing, knife techniques and ways to build layers, contrast and atmosphere. Practical demonstrations and guided exercises will help you develop confident, expressive strokes. Suitable for beginners and those wanting a looser approach. Please bring a canvas or board eg 30x40cm, acrylic paints, palette knifes, a stay-wet palette or spray bottle, an easel or portable board, a water container, paper towels and sun protection. Materials are not supplied. Meeting point and further details are provided to attendees after booking.

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Acrylic painting for beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

Spend two hours capturing the tranquil scenery of the large pond in Central Park, using acrylic paint you will complete a painting that will be dry and ready to frame!

This relaxed meetup covers view selection, composition, colour mixing, water reflections, contrast and atmosphere. Practical demonstrations and guided exercises will help you develop confident, expressive strokes. Suitable for beginners and those wanting a looser approach. Please bring a canvas or canvas board (e.g. 30x40cm), acrylic paints, a large and a small brush, a stay-wet palette or spray bottle, an easel or portable board, a water container, paper towels and sun protection. Materials are not supplied. Meeting point and further details are provided to attendees after booking.

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Acrylic painting for beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

Spend two hours capturing the tranquil scenery of the large pond in Central Park, using acrylic paint you will complete a painting that will be dry and ready to frame!

This relaxed meetup covers view selection, composition, colour mixing, water reflections, contrast and atmosphere. Practical demonstrations and guided exercises will help you develop confident, expressive strokes. Suitable for beginners and those wanting a looser approach. Please bring a canvas or canvas board (e.g. 30x40cm), acrylic paints, a large and a small brush, a stay-wet palette or spray bottle, an easel or portable board, a water container, paper towels and sun protection. Materials are not supplied. Meeting point and further details are provided to attendees after booking.

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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Bored by snaps? Keen to enliven your image making using new techniques? This workshop offers a dynamic, artistic approach that could help. You'll learn about different manual controls, composition methods and menu functions - including multiple exposure, motion blur, and filling the frame in an abstract manner. All of these have potential to push your photography in a new direction. As photographers, we are often told only technically perfect images matter. But this isn't true. And creative breakthroughs also arise from being imperfect, loose and experimental. This workshop takes place on the Plymouth foreshore around Royal William Yard. If you are visually inspired by patterns, textures, colours - barnacles, rust, wild flowers, reflections and the motion of the sea, this may be one for you! Come along and explore an exciting new fine-art approach to your photography.

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You have it your hands, that wonderful new DSLR camera with all of its mysterious dials buttons. Now it is time to learn to use it properly ! There is a lot to learn about photography each new new phase of knowledge delivers more control to the photographer ! This 3 hour session will ease you into familiarity with your camera and will suit beginners and any intermediate photographers who feel like a refresher. In this session we will cover creative camera basics, including composition, framing and perspective. You will also learn how shutter speed, aperture iso combine to produce a correctly exposed image. Above all it will be fun ! There will be lots to photograph and enjoy, as we move around and explore both landscape and architectural features of the area !

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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Bored by snaps? Keen to enliven your image making using new techniques? This workshop offers a dynamic, artistic approach that could help. You'll learn about different manual controls, composition methods and menu functions - including multiple exposure, motion blur, and filling the frame in an abstract manner. All of these have potential to push your photography in a new direction. As photographers, we are often told only technically perfect images matter. But this isn't true. And creative breakthroughs also arise from being imperfect, loose and experimental. This workshop takes place on the Plymouth foreshore around Royal William Yard. If you are visually inspired by patterns, textures, colours - barnacles, rust, wild flowers, reflections and the motion of the sea, this may be one for you! Come along and explore an exciting new fine-art approach to your photography.

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Big Brush Watercolour for Beginners and more experienced. A relaxed approach to plein air watercolour painting in pleasant surroundings. Covering view selection, composition, aerial perspective, colour mixing and reflections. I will also cover how to vary the amount of water used with the paint throughout the painting process. Gain confidence and overcome fears of painting outdoors!

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This workshop will appeal to architectural, urban, street and landscape photographers. If you enjoy the buzz of the footpath, the glow of light on old stone and the evening mood of 'place based' photography, this one is probably for you. Capturing the city at dusk presents different technical challenges to photographers. In this workshop you will learn how to balance different types of light (both 'ambient' and 'natural') and frame for impact while using manual controls. The advantages, in terms of 'atmospheric potential' of 'golden hour' and 'blue hour' photography will be outlined. In particular, the range granted by 'ISO', and adjusting your shutter speed in response to the 'scene', will be explained and encouraged. There will much to see and photograph as we move through this picturesque foreshore location. Come along and enjoy a memorable evening of photography in one of Plymouth's most iconic places.

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You have it your hands, that wonderful new DSLR camera with all of its mysterious dials buttons. Now it is time to learn to use it properly ! There is a lot to learn about photography each new new phase of knowledge delivers more control to the photographer ! This 3 hour session will ease you into familiarity with your camera and will suit beginners and any intermediate photographers who feel like a refresher. In this session we will cover creative camera basics, including composition, framing and perspective. You will also learn how shutter speed, aperture iso combine to produce a correctly exposed image. Above all it will be fun ! There will be lots to photograph and enjoy, as we move around and explore both landscape and architectural features of the area !

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This workshop will appeal to architectural, urban, street and landscape photographers. If you enjoy the buzz of the footpath, the glow of light on old stone and the evening mood of 'place based' photography, this one is probably for you. Capturing the city at dusk presents different technical challenges to photographers. In this workshop you will learn how to balance different types of light (both 'ambient' and 'natural') and frame for impact while using manual controls. The advantages, in terms of 'atmospheric potential' of 'golden hour' and 'blue hour' photography will be outlined. In particular, the range granted by 'ISO', and adjusting your shutter speed in response to the 'scene', will be explained and encouraged. There will much to see and photograph as we move through this picturesque foreshore location. Come along and enjoy a memorable evening of photography in one of Plymouth's most iconic places.

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Learn how to use natural light to advantage when working on outdoors black white portraits. This workshop will take place in the historical setting. The old master painters had a special word - chiaroscuro -meaning light-dark for the dramatic quality of shadow in portraits. This concept, as it relates to black and white portraiture, will be fully explained. The importance of 'catch lights' in eyes 'bokeh' for dreamy, soft backgrounds will also be addressed, as will the advantage of shooting in "open shade". Portraits will be taken with black and white conversion in mind, but can also be enjoyed in colour as well. The textured, stone walls and arcaded walkways in the venue will offer an atmospheric setting for this workshop!

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Learn how to use natural light to advantage when working on outdoors black white portraits. This workshop will take place in the historical setting. The old master painters had a special word - chiaroscuro -meaning light-dark for the dramatic quality of shadow in portraits. This concept, as it relates to black and white portraiture, will be fully explained. The importance of 'catch lights' in eyes 'bokeh' for dreamy, soft backgrounds will also be addressed, as will the advantage of shooting in "open shade". Portraits will be taken with black and white conversion in mind, but can also be enjoyed in colour as well. The textured, stone walls and arcaded walkways in the venue will offer an atmospheric setting for this workshop!

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