THE COLOUR WORKSHOP with Owen Thompson
Full day - Saturday 22nd May 2021- $90
We are very pleased to announce our next workshop for this year. Owen Thompson, a well-known, experienced and talented watercolour artist has agreed to undertake this workshop. If you are interested in developing or improving your skills, then this is the workshop for you. Please register early so that you do not miss out.
Members will have priority for places but registration will be open to non members as well. Non members should email their name and phone number to nepeanas@gmail.com with the heading Owen Thompson Workshop.
Owen, who majored in painting and printmaking at the UNSW College of Fine Art and gained his Batchelor of Fine Arts from the Adelaide Art School now specializes in drawing and watercolour.
He has held twenty-six solo exhibitions to date.
All have reflected his interest in the natural world and his ability to tackle complex subjects in watercolour. His works display strong drawing and compositional skills along with a love of colour and light. They reflect the influence of Australia’s early romantic landscape painters like Conrad Martens, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard and Piquenit.
He has been an exhibiting member of the Australian Watercolour Institute since 1996 and was an exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society from 2000 to 2010.
Group exhibitions have included, a Teaching Artists Exchange Exhibition, with artists from Barcelona in 1991, the Sister Cities Exchange Exhibition, Katoomba with Sanda, Japan in 1998 and the Land out of Time Exhibition in 2004 which featured works by Blue Mountains artists that were contemporary, re-interpretations of landscape works depicting the mountains painted in the early 1900’s. This exhibition was first shown at Penrith Regional Gallery, then toured to the regional galleries of Griffith NSW and Stanthorpe QLD.
Owen has also worked extensively as an art teacher, having taught art in a secondary school for 11 years, seven of these as consultant for HSC major works. He has also tutored students in watercolour at PLC Pymble, the University of NSW, the KVB College, and at community art centres in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
Currently he teaches drawing and watercolour at The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and at Springwood Art Centre.
Well known for his sublime landscapes of the Blue Mountains, which capture the austere beauty and light of this unique region, Owen Thompson is represented by Day Fine Art Gallery, Blackheath, NSW.
Examples of his work are in the collections of the University of NSW, Adelaide College of Arts, Lane Cove council, Nepean Hospital and Artbank.
Examples of the tutor’s work can be viewed at his website. www.owenzart.com
OVERVIEW OF THE COLOUR WORKSHOP
This workshop is designed to provide insight into the many aspects of colour and the way to use it. We will follow the history of colour making and look at the physical as well as the social and psychological effects of colour, with examples illustrating these drawn from simple hands-on experiments and from classical art through to post impressionism.
The value to painters of a full understanding of the colour wheel and its application will be the core of the workshop. With participants making their own colour wheel and then applying the knowledge gained from this to exercises concentrated upon its use in mixing convincing shadow colours. Using a colourful umbrella as a still life subject, the colour theory will be put into practice.
The information is of value to beginners and experienced painters. The still life will require some patient observational drawing before painting.
Materials needed:
Please note that you will need at least a warm and cool of each of the primary colours.
For Example:
- Cadmium Red
- Permanent Crimson (or equivalent cool red)
- Spectrum Yellow (or equivalent warm yellow)
- Lemon Yellow
- Ultramarine Blue
- Prussian Blue
- Small (about size 4) and a large (about size 10) round, watercolour brushes.
- At least 3, A4 sized sheets of watercolour paper.
TIMES: Start at 9.00am. Finish at 4.30pm
(Arrive by 8:30am for setup – 4.00pm for cleaning and pack up)
