This course is based on a love for Italy. The colours, textures and atmosphere.

• The paint colours I use are also chosen carefully to blend together to reveal the warmth and richness of Italy.

• I designed this course to include several different techniques, like making your own stencils, mixing your own structure gel and producing your own collage paper.

• You will learn how to mix the colours and produce colour-charts to help you with the process.

• In this course we work on 4 different paintings designed to be displayed together as a set. The idea is to loosen up and paint less photographically.

• I show you how to practice sketching up by working in greyscale

• How to simplify the lines, and how to add your original collage paper.

• We then begin painting, going on to use acrylic ink and a pipette to draw on top

• We will use stencils to both dull down and enlighten certain areas

• We finish up by using a glaze to change the atmosphere and bring the whole picture together followed by a few words about using varnish.