2.Trompe L’Oeil Detail Painting Course:

Dates:
July 24th-August 4th. 10 days study with an expedition to the coast to look at landscape colours and eye-levels if weather favourable. Trips are also organised to galleries in St Ives, or other special Cornish venues and attractions – eg. The Eden project if whole group is agreeable.
Cost of tuition £775.00.

B&B available £25.00 per night at Janet’s farm
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October 30th- November 10th.10 days study following a Learn How To Tackle A Mural Course, special lower winter price £600.00
B&B available £25.00 per night at Janet’s farm
for animal lovers only.....book now!

A guide to painting realistic detail – previously called Janet’s ‘Level Two’ Course. Once you have the bigger picture – the whole mural (Learn How To Tackle a Mural), you need to learn to make the details look real!

On this course you will begin with basic drawing and then painting simple objects and begin to understand how to paint them so they look really three-dimensional!

Everything makes a good subject – even lunch!

……washed down with a nice glass of wine!

Some surprising subjects make good trompe l’oeil

Janet has become a leading exponent of trompe l’oeil because of her extraordinary ability to make her work look three-dimensional and her understanding of perspective. During this session she explains how to achieve this yourself, working on a small scale, with small subjects for example leaves, fruit, a wine glass, fabric, wood and stone. She starts with observation and drawing skill in the studio and then uses imaginative simple still-life subjects to move quickly into practicing mixing true colours - accurate matches you need for detailed trompe l’oeil work using good quality Golden acrylics. The course is designed to improve the standard of your painting, no matter what your previous experience is. Classes are very small and personal and even absolute beginners will be welcomed and helped to improve their painting technique.

Student painting - some very small subjects can be rewarding and exciting to paint!

Wit and humour make good trompe l’oeil – but only if you do it well!

This session is geared towards detail rather than the whole mural picture (for this you need to enroll on the ‘Learn How to Tackle a Mural Course) but it’s worth bearing in mind that it is often the detail that makes a project successful.