More experienced students who wish to take their painting to the next stage.

This course is designed to take students who have absorbed the principles of tonal painting into Colourism. In effect, it is the leap from Impressionism to Fauvism and Post Impressionism, from using colour as narrative description to using colour as intimate expression. We will be examining this journey towards Modernism with reference to the work of the Masters. Although we shall be considering vital formal aspects of painting, especially line, shape and the division of pictorial space, the emphasis is placed on understanding the complex and highly sensitive discipline of colour. The core of this week is built around the need to absorb and understand the way colour exists only in a context, and to harness its full impact without losing sensitivity, coherence and harmony. Students will study the way pigments behave, and evaluate different palettes as part of their response to the subject. Using urban landscape, the figure and still life as subject matter, students will be encouraged to develop their own painterly language and to consider the emotional and intellectual impact of their work.

During this course, students will:

• Experiment and familiarise with Hugo Grenville's Theory of Palettes
• Learn to "see" colour, and how it behaves
• Examine the key elements in picture making (composition, line, form and tone)
• Try exercises that will train the eye to read colour tonally
• Apply chosen palettes to a composition (landscapes, still lifes and interiors with figures)
• Experiment with new mark-making in drawing and painting techniques

Please see details of Hugo's other courses:

• An Introduction to Oils
• The Nuts and Bolts of Picture Making
• Colour in the Landscape (Portugal)