PAINTING MASTERCLASS: Playing with Paint

Loosen up, experiment and discover a more expressive way to paint in this full day painting masterclass with artist Mary Blue.

Have you ever looked at one of your paintings and wondered what would happen if you approached it completely differently?

This wonderfully exploratory day with Mary is an opportunity to do exactly that.

Bring along a previous painting or an image you would like to revisit and use it as the starting point for a day of experimenting with colour, movement, texture and mark making. Rather than trying to recreate the original, Mary will encourage you to play with it, push it in new directions and discover possibilities you may not have considered before.

You will begin with a series of quick, playful exercises designed to get you making marks without overthinking them. Working with charcoal, ink, acrylic and pastel, you will explore line, gesture, layering, colour and texture…