What is Art Club?

What is Art Club Season One?

Our Art Club is a lot like a conventional local art club, except it’s all online. Instead of heading out to your local village hall, sessions are published on our website and you’ll be able to access them on a day and time to suit you. Each session will have a video lasting around one hour filmed in our studio. Accompanying the video we’ll also provide other useful stuff such as reference images and further reading links and any other information we think you’ll need. You can join in with our activities or just watch, it’s up to you, there’s no pressure. You’ll see that there’s also a message board where you can ask us questions.

We hope that Art Club will provide an opportunity for you to set aside a little time that’s just for you to devote to your enthusiasm for art and creating. Just as going to an in-person art club forces you to turn up and allocate the time, our online art club will give you that too. 

There are twelve sessions in Season One. As soon as you enrol, all sessions will be available to you. We'd recommend that you work through them in order, although there's nothing to stop you going back to revisit ideas from earlier sessions, in fact we'd encourage that! The pace you work at is entirely up to you, but maybe tackling one session per fortnight would be a good pace to aim at. Of course it depends entirely on your own schedule, how much time you have to spend, and how quickly you work. The beauty is that you have as long as you like, once you sign up you keep access to the sessions for as long as you need.


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Lesley Irving

5 star rating

“Three of us have worked together after all twelve sessions and have seen an 'improvement' in our work from session to session. Please, please do a Season 2. We are textile artists and would appreciate as much design input as possible. Session 1...”

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“Three of us have worked together after all twelve sessions and have seen an 'improvement' in our work from session to session. Please, please do a Season 2. We are textile artists and would appreciate as much design input as possible. Session 12 was particularly informative. Keep up the good work.”

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What's in Session One?

We're delighted to welcome you to our studio! Join us as we dive into colour mixing inspired by JMW Turner. Whether you're using acrylics, watercolors, or pastels, let's explore the magic of color and creativity together. Remember, it's not about replicating Turner's work, but embracing his spirit of experimentation.

Watch a Clip from Session One

What's in Session Two?

We're building on what we learned in Session 1 but this time we're referencing a landscape close to home and exploring how we can create a sense of depth and distance in our landscape painting. Laura demonstrates in acrylics while Linda uses watercolour and water-soluble pencils. And we'll reference the paintings of Constable.

What's in Session Three?

Referencing compositional ideas in works by Serusier and Van Gogh we'll experiment with painting our own landscape. We'll demonstrate with acrylic paints for this one, but you can always use watercolour if you prefer.

What's in Session Four?

Continuing with a landscape theme we'll take a look at paintings by Bernard, Gauguin and Schiele. We'll take some ideas from those and use our painted and found papers to make collage.

What's in Session Five?

We'll start this session with a look at works by Monet and Hundertwasser. Next we'll work through some small collages and add glazes with acrylics and extra layers of colour and detail using pencil crayon.

What's in Session Six?

We switch out attention to Still Life in this session and begin with considering some of the many works by Cezanne. Our first still life challenge for you is to draw or paint a striped cloth and also to think about the connections between still life and landscape.

What's in Session Seven?

Looking more closely at some paintings by Cezanne for inspiration, we'll begin to introduce some objects into our still life. Linda works with watercolour and Laura uses acrylic inks. We'll share our tips for transferring drawings to your painting surface for watercolour, plus how you can combine collage with your painting.

What's in Session Eight?

We explore lots of still life paintings throughout art history looking at how the still life can be just part of a larger composition. We'll work on our own still life paintings, Laura's using acrylic while Linda's is watercolour. She also show you how you can combine oil pastel with watercolour for a lively mixed media approach.

What's in Session Nine?

In this session we'll take a look at some beautiful Dutch floral still lifes. Using some ideas from those we'll begin our own floral studies. Laura demonstrates a drawing and how she's started a new painting. Linda is working with water-soluble pencils to make studies in her sketchbook.

What's in Session Ten?

In this session we suggest that you look at the work of Mary Fedden and Elizabeth Blackadder to inform your still life and flower painting. We'll demonstrate how you can introduce pattern to your work with some quick and easy techniques.

What's in Session Eleven?

Here we look at both the work of 20th Century artist Cecily Sash, but also works from ancient art history to help inform our compositional decision making. We consider the use of text and borders and frames to complement the other elements in our drawings and paintings.

What's in Session Twelve?

In the final session in this season of Art Club we show you the painting that Linda's been working on and discuss some of the decisions she's made so far and what will be best done to complete it. Plus Laura shows her art history notebook and the pair of paintings that she's working on.

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