2024 Summer School
Lecturer: Daniel Connell
Mon 22 Jan – Wed 24 Jan
9.30am – 4.30pm
Level – Beginner to Advanced
This course is designed for those who want to create paintings in the tradition of landscape experiment with various techniques and find a unique expressive voice of their own. Designed for raw beginners and advanced.
Students will look at other artists who have painted landscapes in a broadly expressive way and discuss the significance of representing space and relationship to space.
Students are encouraged to paint large scale and multiple works.
Materials
Supports:
- 2 x oil sheet paper.
- 2-3 student quality stretched canvas or primed mdf board (buy at hardware at least 5mm thick and prime at home using matte ceiling white paint. )
- Suggested large scale, with at least one dimension being 100 cm or larger.
Acrylic paint, Student quality is fine:
- Alizarin
- Warm red
- Ultramarine blue
- Pthalo blue
- Lemon yellow
- Warm yellow
- Large.
- Suggestions
- Turquoise
- Orange or vermillion
- Magenta
- Lilac
Brushes
An assortment of brushes. Suggestions are:
- At least 2-3 high quality synthetic bristle brushes.
- I suggest ‘brights’ ( square shaped bristles)
- Sized 4,8,12
- Cheaper larger brushes
- 3 inches and larger Are handy.
Other materials:
- Natural Charcoal 3-4 sticks any size
- Cotton rags.
- Pallete – any water-repellent, portable flat surface
- Jars /containers for water.
- Oil paints may be used in addition to acrylic – (on top of ) but only with non-toxic solvent (Langridge Low Toxic Solvent or Langridge Solvent 75 recommended).
For all your material needs and advice, Central Artist Supplies is located next to our Administration Office at 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside.
Hours: Monday – Friday 8.30am-4.00pm, Saturdays 9.00am-12.30pm (9.00am-2.00pm when short courses are running). Phone 08 8271 6912. Email mail@centralartistsupplies.au
Daniel Connell was awarded a PhD from the University of South Australia in 2020. His research explores portraiture as a socially engaged practice. His work has been selected for the Lester Prize, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Fleurieu Art Prize and the Kochi Muziris Biennale of Contemporary Art in India. He has worked on public art projects both nationally and in Birmingham, Vancouver and throughout India. Daniel has delivered a TEDX talk ‘How art teaches you to approach the unfamiliar” in Ubud in May 2018.
danielconnellartist.com
wiki/Daniel_Connell
TEDX: youtube.com/watch
Image credit:
Daniel Connell, image courtesy of the artist.
