CREATIVE TIME OUT
PAINTING TIME!
La Palma
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CREATIVE TIME OUT - PAINTING TIME !
Island impressions with pencil and watercolour
6 -day art seminar for beginners and advanced students
One week intensive seminar with possibility of extension
on La Palma, Canary Islands
Arrival day: Arrival, arrival, first orientation meeting in the evening if necessary
Day 1: Introduction to drawing materials and techniques, black and white and coloured
Drawing techniques, pencil, charcoal, graphite, chalks, paper
- The motif and its realisation
- Approaches, motif finder and other aids
- Stroke and line, object and surroundings, hatching
- Further preliminary exercises
- Object and nature studies
- Own creative space
- Daily observations
2nd day Introduction to materials and techniques of painting, watercolour and mixed media, collages
- Materials, brushes, colours, paper
- wet-on-dry, wet-on-wet techniques, glazing technique, layering technique
- Applied colour theory, colour wheel, primary, secondary and tertiary colours, the art of colour mixing
- Beach, waves. Sea, object and nature studies
- Possibility to take part in the "art-making course" 15:00-17:00 in Puntagorda
Day 3 Perspective, very simple!
- One-point, two-point perspective, horizon, colour perspective, spatial illusion
- further exercises
- Perspective of a picturesque row of houses in Palma
4th day at leisure
- e.g. excursion to the caldera nature reserve, hiking tour, rest day at the beach, city shopping in the capital, dolphin-watching tour etc.
- On this day you can collect earths and pigments to make colours for the following day
- Possibility to take part in the "art making course" 11:00-13:00 in Los Llanos
Day 5 Colour production from found natural pigments
- Pigment, binder for the production of mainly watercolour paint
- Experiments
(Acrylic, oil, gouache, egg tempera or chalk colour production would also be possible)
6th day free work, documentation, preparation for the final presentation
and conclusion
- Create signposts, continue on your own path with exploration of your individual artistic expression
artistic expression
- Small final presentation of your work
- Motivation and appreciation session
- Conclusion
followed by the possibility of an in-depth week with individual focus and personal support
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Flight
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Flights are booked independently. Important: book to La Palma SPC (not to Las Palmas, Mallorca). Possible airlines for direct flights: easyjet, Condor, Iberia. From Switzerland: Edelweiss. Bargain hunters are sometimes lucky with single flights with a stopover in Mallorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
Food
There are restaurants for lunch and dinner as well as supermarkets where we can eat together or individually as we wish.
Materials
All materials can be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own drawing/painting equipment, e.g. a sketchbook, your brushes, your coloursI also have drawing and painting sets available to borrow or buy, so you don't need to bring anything with you:
Personal items
don't forget good shoes (sturdy shoes are enough), sun hat, sun protection, small rucksack
Times for the art
approx. 5h per day
Language
the course language will be German and possibly English
Course size
6-12 persons
Locations
on La Palma, Canary Islands, mainly in the west of the island: Los Llanos, Tazacorte, Puntagorda, Las Tricias
mainly on the beach, by the sea, in cafés, in the pine forest, in picturesque places,
in seminar rooms in bad weather (which hardly ever happens)
Hire car
You probably can't do without a hire car. Theoretically, it would also work with a bus and carpooling with other participants.
Price
495,- seminar costs (excl. accommodation, excl. flight)
Subsequent consolidation week approx. 20 hours 520,- (excl. accommodation, flight, hire car)
This week can also be booked independently of the basic course.
Enrolment
Please register using the registration form here. Afterwards you will receive all further steps including the payment modalities.
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Terms of payment
Deposit 10%, due upon enrolment
Discount
Registration up to 2 months before course start 10%
Guarantee, cancellation
The provider reserves the right to cancel the course up to 4 weeks before the start of the course, no recourse can be taken. All advance payments will be refunded within 5 days
Cancellations
If a course is cancelled by the participant up to 4 weeks before the start of the course, the course fee paid minus the deposit will be refunded within 5 days, in the case of cancellations 2-4 weeks before the start of the course, 50% of the course fee will be refunded, from 2 weeks the payment cannot be refunded.
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Insurance cover
Please provide yourself with all the insurance you need, e.g. travel insurance. There is no insurance cover from the provider.
Info
More information, background, inspiration, further offers: www.kunstlapalma.com
Please contact
Leon: - 0034 617 167 665 Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, phone calls by arrangement,
Mail: info@kunstlapalma.com
Pre-meeting (optional)
2 weeks before the start of the course via Zoom video conference.
teacher
Leon, artist, art therapist, course leader
