Terry Lewitska
A course for beginners to advanced, with individual guidance.
This week will focus on impressionistic landscapes. We will explore the subtleties of colour relationships and creating a mood with "colour accords", with warms and cools playing a vital relationship of the overall impression being created. Learning to mix specific colours and having colour control on the palette will be explained.
Step-by-step instruction is given on a variety of subjects including how to draw trees and mix various greens, as well as dealing with foregrounds.
Be prepared with your visual diary, for a fair amount of information, with your personal style being taken into consideration at all time.
The medium being used will be the new Artisan water based oil paint which does not require any toxic mediums. These paints behave in the same way as traditional oils but don't have the problems associated with turpentine and other potentially harmful mediums.
Terry's tuition has been varied from the School
of Art but more significantly from private tutors throughout his life.
He was elected as a Fellow of the RSASA in 1981 and has been Director
of the School of Art in Victor Harbor for over 15 years. The Dutch Den
Haag School has had a direct influence on his work; which is very much
"traditional impressionistic" in style. He has won many prizes and has
had solo exhibitions. Twelve teaching articles have been published in
the Australian Artist magazine, some of which can been seen on his
website www.lewitzkaartstudios.com. See specifically Australian Artist
January 2010 No. 307.
Materials List
Artisan water mixable oil colours:
Titanium White,
Lemon Yellow,
Cadmium Yellow,
Cadmium Red Medium,
Alizarin Crimson,
Yellow Ochre,
Burnt Sienna,
Viridian,
Cerulean Blue,
Cobalt Blue,
French Ultramarine.
Canvas or Boards:
A Selection of sizes from 9"x5" : 10"x8" etc up to 20"x 16".
A good size for the australian landscape is 15" x 10".
Brushes:
A selection of flat hog hair brushes from size 12 down. One or two liners size 1 or 0.
Also:
Mediums,
Visual diary A4 or A5,
Easel,
Palette
Rags and part of an old telephone book.
