Paint Landscape

Do you look at the scenery and need to capture it? Here you can start to paint landscape today and enjoy being creative.

You will find ways to express you feelings on maybe paper, card or canvas. From sketching, photographic references and getting paint onto canvas, you can do it. Or maybe you are a more experienced artist who may like put some of your ideas and advice into our comments page, we gain inspiration from each other.

Sometimes wonder what to put into a landscape painting? Making a composition choice is important. Paint the landscapes, the scenery you have visited and experienced as contemporary paintings from the comfort of your home. You can paint landscape or paint landscapes any time any where.

The exciting benefit it changes with the time of day, weather and season so there is plenty of scope to just keep painting the same but different, but a change is good.

Paint landscapes and enjoy hanging your contemporary or modern paintings in your home.

Inspiration. Where does it come from?
Well for me it sometimes just gets stuck. Do you find the same? Then all of a sudden it just flows, if it's a problem using it before it gets forgotten so write it down, make a note and book some time on the Calendar to paint your new modern art landscapes.

Where do you start when you paint? Do you see a landscape and paint or sketch it, maybe just a photo or is it a reference from somewhere else?

I am fortunate living in the Trossachs, countryside with mountains and lochs, famous for inspiring art in so many ways. Also the West Coast of Scotland (not far away) has colour though the fantastic light. For me this is where all my contemporary, modern art, original art, seascapes, giclee prints for my painted landscapes begin

The coastal scene is inspiration and so when I can I go there.
If on a dull day and not inspired, having the "painters blank," I do something different maybe just play with the paints or sketch book it's surprising what can be achieved having fun.

Avoid painting directly landscapes from photographs, make a preliminary sketch, decide what you want to paint - not exactly the photograph, be inspired and be expressive.

Some ask, did you always paint?
Yes as long as I can remember. At school there were shortages of paper long after the war so we used newspaper to paint on! I remember painting boats. I think the first paintings were seascape paintings of pirate sailing boats, now it's coastal scenes which give great enjoyment.

I don't have any copies or originals of my first paintings. I wish I had, if you have children keep at least some of the paintings for them to see in their adult days.

Children’s Paintings are often contemporary landscape paintings, a lot more than just paint on paper as they meant something to the young artist at the time. The uninhibited brush, the bright colors are a big contrast to the "grown-ups" fear of starting on the blank white canvas!

If you have not already framed some of your children’s art, I recommend you put them in a stock frame, it inspires and encourages the growing artist and you will be surprised what a difference it makes to their art.

Keen on photography and art and this led me to the graphics side of printing industry as a photo-litho artist, possibly one of the reasons I produce my own giclee prints. I came back to painting years later. Now a more determined player, entering exhibitions, getting work into galleries, entering Open Studio events and running painting holidays and workshops
This all brings invitations to other events and commissions.

Painting Workshop or Painting Holiday
The painting workshops are a new venture designed be enjoyable. In my previous career I was involved in training and whilst the objective of learning might be the same the workshop is a holiday, so my painting workshops are relaxed and designed for enjoyment .

Paint landscape now runs - Painting Holidays & Landscape Painting Workshops.

A slow down for acrylic paints! paint-landscape describes how. See video.

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Scottish Painting Holiday

 Trossachs, Scotland - 2013
Create Contemporary Art

Your opportunity to experience a Scottish Painting Holiday in the dramatic scenery of the Trossachs. A Painting Holiday with Lochs, Glens, Mountains and comfortable surroundings. All our painting holidays are planned for out door and indoor painting. Venues with Waterside Cafes. Warm and comfortable places to paint, eat and wonderful loch-side views.

With Peter Tarrant - professional associate of the SAA and professional photographer Mairi Semple you will explore the opportunity to create contemporary modern art landscapes all year from the reference photographs and sketches, which you make when out and about in the Trossachs on day one.

Why include photography? More artists use photographic references, not everyone is not comfortable setting up painting just in the middle of a busy area or maybe in the rain! I always hope for sun! Make sketches and take a few photographs, complete a sketch then paint from the sketch. Therefore good reference shots are important.

To pursue this landscape painting holiday approach to art we will download your photographs and consider options on simple photo editing softwear. A computer and colour inkjet printer will be available. MORE

Four Day Painting Holidays


Sunday 12th May - Thursday 16th May 2013 On Your arrival we meet for the Welcome Dinner which is a good time to let us know what your wish to achieve on your Scottish Painting Holiday.  Included is - Two dinners and four lunches. A presentation CD of over 170 Trossachs reference photographs to complete your.. MORE

Painting Workshops

Painting Workshop Dates 2013

Starting and improving with Acrylics at painting workshops

April - 1 Day  Workshop...........Monday 22nd April 2013

May - 1 Day  Workshop.......... Monday 13th May 2013*

May - 1 Day Workshop...........Tuesday 14th May 2013*

May  1 Day Workshop............Weds. 15th May 2013*

May - 3 Day  Workshop.......   Monday 13th - 15th May 2013

June 3 day Workshop........... Monday 3rd June - 5th June

June - 1 Day  Workshop......... Monday 3d June 2013 *

June - 1 Day  Workshop..........Tuesday 4th June 2013 *

June - 1 Day  Workshop..........Wednesday 5th June 2013 *

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