Landscape Painting Diploma Course(D7)

Course overview
We start by acknowledging the artist – you and your relation to the landscape, which is a recurring theme throughout the course. We look at how in a day, the course of the sun affects the subject in terms of light and mood: doing some sky studies to begin with. We also look at time in terms of the seasons, which in the UK are markedly different from each other but this isn’t so apparent in other regions of the World. We transfer our attention from the effects of light to those of colour, again paying attention to mood and emotional outcomes. After this, because it is always asked for and popular, the course deals with water and painting it. This leads on to seascapes.

Central to the theme of landscape painting is the concept of ‘the lie of the land’. It means how the surface of the earth opens out before the viewer. How the viewer perceives every little nuance of level and undulation of the earth as it appears from where they are stationed and the viewer’s relation to it. Urban subjects, including buildings and architecture with a salutary mention of perspective follow this. Because they can be linked, animals and the human figure are adjoined to urban subjects. Animals tend to feature in rustic and picturesque landscapes so the course incorporates a section on drawing and painting sheep, horses, cows, goats etc. The figure gives us a system of scale to use in relation to the landscape; to follow this we look at pictorial design and format, including use of photo reference.

A vital concept is that of pictorial space in the landscape, this part of the course addresses issues pertaining to it. Ultimately, we end up looking at visionary landscapes, those done by the likes of Blake and Palmer (English visionaries) and the notion of fantasy landscapes such as the ones made by metaphysical artists and the Surrealists. There is a final section on how to maintain your stock of work and some advice about selling your work. We include a section on materials to guide you regarding what you require and what you choose to work with. This course does not teach you how to use the media or how to draw.

Course Prices
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Critiques
If you have scanning / photography facilities, students are able to upload their artwork to the Artwork Submission Area on our website. Each student is given a unique username and password on enrolment for their own private section in this area. Students can upload their artwork to this area for the tutor to collect and critique. The tutor will then upload feedback for the student to download or read.

Critiques via Regular Mail
If you do not have any facilities to upload your artwork, you can send your work in the normal way to the tutors centre and receive your artwork back with your critique. It is essential you label all packages/artwork your student number.

Support
All our courses are written to be complete in themselves. However we realise that students may appreciate being able to get clarification about various things as they work through their programme as well wanting reassurance that they are putting techniques into practice effectively. The tutors provide the technical support to deal with relevant queries.

Most courses have their own dedicated Tutor. The tutor keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. The student is encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the tutor to critique. The student's work will be returned together with the tutor's personal critique. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for any award of a letter, certificate or diploma.

Duration
The expected duration of this course is approximately 1 year although the college allows students up to two years to complete their studies.

Overview
This course is suitable for all students. The following is an overview of some of the areas that are covered in the course.

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Testimonials from students

This is just a few lines to thank you for the Landscape painting course, I found it extremely tremendous in helping me improve my skills. The course tutor Alan Dedman was fantastic in commenting on my paintings and telling me how i could improve my painting. To get a certificate in the post was absolutely tremendous and unexpected. I have no intention of stopping painting now even if i am 74 years old. Thank you once again.
David Parkes (Landscape Painting Diploma - D7)