Plein Air Painting Workshop: Composition

Join us for fun Plein Air painting workshops in 2025 at Tegg's Nose Country Park. In each workshop, experienced professional painters, Christopher Clements and Kieran Ingram, will help you capture a different aspect of landscape painting.

Workshop Price £85, reserve your place with a £25 deposit on Eventbrite, the remainder will be invoiced before the course.

Learning to draw and paint the form of your subject is important, but it’s not until it’s arranged into a composition that it becomes a work of art. So the first workshop this summer is all about designing your painting. You’ll look at what’s important and how the overall design knits everything together into a unified piece of work.

You’ll look at ways of arranging line, tone and colour to create balance, harmony in your work.

You’ll also study what to emphasise and what to let go to give your work focus.

We’ll cover:

• design of your painting
• balance and harmony
• visual rhythm

All the Plein Air workshops we’re running this summer are based on the Tonalist approach which focuses on interpretation of the light & dark tones of the landscape, while simplifying the colours. The approach will help you to make sense of what you see. You’ll be able to organise it into a well-structured painting, evoking the simple beauty of your environment.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned painter, these workshops are perfect for anyone looking to improve their Plein Air painting skills. It’s a fantastic opportunity to get out of the studio and unleash your creativity in the great outdoors.

You can book for one or all of the workshops, to fit your schedule.

Plein Air Painting, Composition Workshop Agenda

10:00 -12:30 Painting Exercises

You’ll spend the morning looking at how to combine line, tone, shape and colour to create interest and balance in your painting.

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Long Plein Air Painting Study

In the afternoon you’ll work on a long Plein Air study based on the principles you’ve learned in the morning.