Duration: 12 weeks
Frequency: once a week, 2 hours/ session
Price:
900 RON / 12 session
Painting in watercolours (2 sessions)
In the aristocracy, the panting lessons were representing good criteria for a good education, especially among women. Watercolours were used in the scientific and military environments by engineers, military officers, cartographers, geologists or architects. The archaeologists for example were using this technique for illustrating and registering easier their discoveries. Today, painting with watercolours is often used for illustrating encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and in general books. Is the appropriate technique for rendering a landscape, for creating transparency and delicate superposition in a lively, spontaneous colour range, as the one used by the famous Chinese painters.
Painting in pastel (2 sessions)
The technique of painting in pastel is appreciated for its lively chromatic and for its effects that rise as a result of mixing and blending of colours. The first to mention the technique was the Renaissance time painter Leonardo da Vinci. The most adequate for obtaining a similar effect with the watercolours are the water crayons. Yet, if you wish to obtain the effect of canvas painting, you must of course use oil crayons. And if you find yourself attracted towards scenography, you can build your own little scene by using coated crayons.
Painting in tempera (2 sessions)
One of the oldest techniques in painting, Tempera is used in the Russian icons and Greek churches, at the Islamic manuscripts, or in the modern art works. Used especially in Europe between the XIIIth and XVth century, Tempera lost its prominence once the oil painting appeared, regaining its status just in the beginning of the XXst century when muralists like Jose Orozco and Diego Rivera were using it in their big dimensioned works. Thank to the accuracy with which one can obtain the details, Tempera is preferred in creating geometrical or floral compositions, icons, mural painting or design projects.
Acryl painting (2 sessions)
Invented by the German Chemist Dr. Otto Rohm, the acryl was rapidly adopted and experimented by many modern artists like Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Roy Lichtenstien.
Preferred for its quality of getting dry really fast, the acryl is often used for obtaining graphical effects in a painting or for creating a fully graphical work of art. The technique allows the use of a wider range of colours – from the coloured greys used in Tempera to the most electrifying colours, typical for painting in acryl, as well as combining colours on paper, cardboard, canvas or any other suitable support.
Oil painting (4 sessions)
Painting is understood often as an elaborate study of a small or big size composition, realised in oil colours and validated in time as being original according to the artist’s touch and the resistance of the colours.
The flat and vibrant touch, rapports and superposition of colours, created with the painting brush or the palette knife are details that bring themselves value to the oil painting. Find out how the great maestros like Velasquez or Mattisse for example were painting and discover your own personal style!
