Seascape Workshop - 5 June 2010

On Saturday 5 June The Paint Basket held an interesting workshop where Dennis taught beginners some techniques on seascape painting. They did not have a specific picture to paint from as he wanted them to get in to the habit of not copy-painting. Dennis combined another picture with one of his son's (Nolan) paintings to form the one they eventually painted. It is not always easy for a beginner to paint the sea so that it looks alive. As you can see they did rather well for a day's (approx 5hrs) work. All work was on 16x20" canvas panels.

This is Dennis' demonstration painting. He says it still needs some touch-ups as it is virtually impossible for him to actually do a finished painting in a class situation. You can see next how close many of the participants came to imitating his painting. Here are a few of the student's paintings in progress.

Packing up after a day's hard concentration. Well done!

The next workshop will be on Watercolour Painting to be held on 3 July 2010 at his Torbay studio. Look out for that.