SATURDAY

Arrive 9.45-10.0am. Meet your fellow artists. Introduction to JoeDaisy Studio and your Professional Artist.

10.15am Choose your space, adjust your professional painting easel, acclimatise yourself to the painting equipment on your painting table. Every artist has their own space with professional easel, painting table and hi stool. ALL YOUR PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED.

10.30am ACRYLIC PAINTING. Perhaps the easiest of medium and certainly the most expressive. Don't be under a misapprehension that acrylic paint 'Dries quickly' because our PROFESSIONAL acrylic paint DOESN'T!! We ease ourselves gently into this 'exploratory' weekend with acrylic painting. A wonderfully expressive medium. which is easy to use and our acrylic paint is so good that there is no longer a 'stigma' or inferior comparison to oils. You can be both painterly and 'free' with acrylics.

1.0-1.30PM Lunch break

2.0pm WATERCOLOUR PAINTING. You tutor shows you watercolour techniques. Watercolour painting is a 'process'. Processes have to be learnt to really enjoy watercolour and to make the medium work properly. Very relaxing medium!

4.30pm DAY ENDS

SUNDAY

Arrive 9.30am OIL PAINTING . 'Alla Prima' or 'All in one go' is the modern way of painting in oils. Oil painting is very different from acrylics and watercolour. You have to 'plan' your painting and approach this medium quite slowly and carefully.

1.0-1.30PM Lunch break

1.30pm Carry on painting in oils.

3.00 ASSESSMENT AND CHAT and critiques.

3.30pm. Collection of your paintings and course notes, Day Ends

EXTENDED WEEKEND - MONDAY

9.30am Arrive, You can chose which medium you paint in today. A new canvas - size up to 80x80cm.

1.0-1.30PM Lunch break

3.30pm Day ends.

This weekend course is an exploratory construction and painting medium course, where you learn how to construct a painting in different ways and experience oils, watercolour and acrylics. Most students come back for more specific teaching but this is a great course to start with AND an exclusive opportunity to use top quality professional materials with tuition from an exceptionally talented and capable professional artist. WHO DOES NOT IMPOSE HER WILL ON YOU!! BUT ENCOURAGES THE ARTIST IN YOU!