Landscape Certificate Course
The course artist is Linda O'Gorman
Course overview
This course introduces the basics of landscape painting. Using a wide range of media it looks at the rules of painting this popular subject, from composition to perspective. It gives you the opportunity to discover the different effects and atmospheres produced by the different media, so allowing you to develop your own style.
In fact, once you've completed the course and mastered the simple techniques of drawing you'll have gained both the understanding and the confidence to really make the most of this very relaxing and creative skill.
Landscape painting is one of the most satisfying subject areas for artists. The emotive response to the land, the ability to capture the air, to create the "impression" of the scene before the artist - these are some of the challenges facing the landscape artist. Our course will show the techniques and the skills necessary to develop your own style and approach to the art of landscape painting. Well laid out with good illustrations, the course will allow the student to gain the understanding and confidence necessary to produce their own landscapes.
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 Administration Centre is available seven days a week and the Course Artist provides the technical support to deal with relevant queries.
Most courses have their own dedicated Course Artist. The Course Artist 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 Course Artist to critique. The student's work will be returned together with the Course Artist'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 Diploma or Certificate.