It's happening. Paint Lake Ohau!
3 DAYS TUITION (with TWO teachers!) $700
Required skill level: Absolute beginners to advanced painters are all welcome.
Painting Medium: Anything you prefer. Demonstrations will be in oils and acrylics.
Maximum number of students: 10
We will be painting at a variety of locations around Lake Ohau in the South Island of New Zealand. This is quite literally a painter's paradise! The instructors will help you to improve your plein air paintings with a focus on simplifying the scene and creating strong design with value structure. Other topics of instruction will include colour mixing strategies, brushwork, edge control and improving your outdoor painting efficiency.
Click the Map or here to see the live google map.
The workshop plan is liable to change due to weather so we're keeping it flexible and will update everyone daily. Suffice to say we will be painting some absolutely stunning locations and we'll be sharing with you the best of all our combined painting knowledge.
How you get to and from the workshop locations is up to you. We'll let you know exactly where to park and where to meet each day so you won't get lost, or at least, we'll all be lost in the same place. Whatever you do, don't arrive late because you might miss some golden piece of information that will forever haunt you.
We suggest you book a rental car at the Queenstown Airport or similar.
Over Glenorchy by Scott Hamill
We suggest you stay with us in Lake Ohau Quarters. It's pretty special!
Accommodation price: $120pp per night.
Food: $55pp per day. This includes: morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. (Not breakfast).
Book for 27th - 29th November 2024.
(We've booked it out, so please contact Karen at info@lakeohauquarters.co.nz to book your room.)
We look forward to cosy chats by the fire with you. Nice!
Rees Valley by Richard Robinson
Workshop bookings cancelled more than 1 month prior to the workshop receive a 60% refund.
Workshop bookings cancelled less than 1 month prior to the workshop receive a 20% refund.
That's the fine print to protect our own obligations, but obviously if you cancel your booking and someone else steps in to fill your place we wouldn't need to charge you anything and you would get a full refund, no problem.
No refunds will be given for poor weather. There is very nice provision for indoor painting if the weather is not suitable for outdoor painting. Let's keep our fingers crossed though.
If we have to cancel the workshop for any unforeseen reason we will of course refund all your workshop payment but we can't be held responsible for the cost of your flights or accommodation or rental car.
Join the waiting list here and we'll let you know if there are any cancellations.
Please do your homework first - read all the info above to learn more and if you can't find your answers there please do contact Richard here or Scott Hamill at Shamill360@yahoo.com.
See you there!
Paradise Station by Richard Robinson
Bring your own art supplies. You can use any medium you like. The demonstrations will be in oils or acrylics.
The brand of paint is not really important so long as they are artist grade paints. You generally get what you pay for.
Standard Colour Set
These colours will do fine. If you want to get more specific use the tutor's lists below.
Titanium white
Cad lemon (Cad yellow light)
Yellow ochre
Cad red medium
Magenta
Ultramarine blue
Phthalo blue
Richard's Colors
Titanium White
Bring Alkyd Titanium white if you want your paintings to dry faster for travel.
Cadmium Yellow Light (or Lemon Yellow)
Alizarin Crimson (or Magenta)
Cadmium Red (or Scarlet)
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Scott's Colors
Titanium white
Cad lemon
Cad lemon pale
Gold ochre
Cad red medium
Permanent rose
Ultramarine blue
Phthalo blue
Portable folding easel. Make sure you are set up to combat wind as it may be windy in many locations. If you are bringing a lightweight tripod easel you might want to consider bringing some thin ropes and tent pegs to tie it down with - just in case.
At least 6 painting panels ranging in size from 8x10" to 12x16". (Depends what size you're comfortable painting in a short time outdoors. The instructors tend to paint fairly large - larger than 12x16")
Wet panel carrier. www.raymarart.com
Note: The instructors will be painting on triple primed linen canvas cut to size from a canvas roll and taped to a board. See how in this video.
Long flat bristle or synthetic brushes No. 2, 8, 10, 12. (Bring a few 10s and 12s)
For instance the Richard Robinson Brush Set
Palette.
Palette knife.
Pencil.
Clear painting medium - Gamblin's Solvent Free Gel or Liquin.
Solvent - Gamsol or similar odourless solvent.
Paper towels or tissues (for cleaning palette knife and drying brushes).
Pen and pad (if you would like to take notes during demonstration).
Several plastic bags for holding dirty tissues.
Lightweight painting umbrella - optional.
Sunscreen
Insect Repellant
Hat
Long sleeved painting top
An apron if you're a messy painter
Water bottle.
Flying with Paints
Print out the Safety Data Sheet for Airline Luggage Inspectors: Click here.
Include this printout in your checked in luggage with your art gear.
Do NOT carry any of your painting gear in your carry on luggage.
Note that you cannot carry turps or any other solvents on an airplane, even in checked in luggage.
Practice
If this is your first time painting outdoors, please practice setting up your gear and painting with it before you arrive. This will save you precious painting time and precious instructors time!
Contact me if you have any questions.