Diane Kettle artist

SUMMER 2013 LANDSCAPE PAINTING CLASSES

Enjoy the summer painting in the beautiful Peak District

 

We will be visiting six different locations in the area on a Wednesday afternoon. These places offer opportunity for interesting paintings and subject matter for all abilities.   Enjoy the fresh air and companionship!   Please bring your usual drawing and painting equipment as well as a sketch book.  Also a light weight folding chair or stool, umbrella, warm clothes, and a flask of a hot drink  I always turn up at the venue unless it has been pouring with rain the whole morning.

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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS 1.30pm - 4.30pm Cost £8 for the afternoon

8th May     Bradford Dale….Old bridge, hillsides, river views cottages.  Meet at the Clapper Bridge, Holywell Lane, Youlgrave  (road past the village hall…walk down, leaving your car in the village)

 

15th May     Ashford in the Water  .bridge, river reflections, ducks, buildings, church.  
Meet at the Butter Cross in Ashford

 

22nd May  Middleton by Youlgrave. old cottages, pretty gardens, lots of farm buildings village square, old cars, good views   Meet at my studio in the Square

 

5th June Middleton by Youlgrave…Bradford Dale, old bridge, river, reflections ,trees.  Meet at my studio in the Square.

 

12th June    Monyash . Old buildings, old farms, village pond, church, market cross.  
Meet at the village cross

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19th June    Monsal Head. .Fantastic viewpoint, viaduct, wild flowers.   Meet in front of the pub.

 

MIDDLETON BY YOULGRAVE  WELL DRESSING AND OPEN STUDIO

The well will be up and dressed on the Saturday 25rd May.  If any of you would like to help with some petalling in the week beginning 20th May you would be very welcome.  
My art studio will open during the week from the Saturday 25th May until Sunday 2nd June

 

I will be having an ART EXHITITION AND SALE OF MY WORK
 during Youlgrave Well Dressing Week at the Methodist Church , Youlgrave.

I will be exhibiting 100+ paintings, prints and cards during the Youlgrave well dressing week
…please come and visit!!!

 

My studio in Middleton by Youlgrave is available for private lessons.   I  teach drawing and measuring techniques, watercolours, pastels, acrylics, gouache, oil painting. pen and ink, pencil and crayon drawing.   When the weather gets warmer and brighter I can take the lessons outside in the village or down in Bradford Dale.

 

I try to be in my studio at the week ends so if you are passing this way do call in. Please check this website for news.

PDF file for printing timetable here ....


by the clapper bridge in Bradford Dale ....

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personal art tuition en plein air at Alport near Youlgrave

En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is often used to describe the practice of painting in the outside environment rather than indoors (such as in a studio). In English alfresco has the same meaning, however in Italian the term al fresco has a rather different one, either in jail or simply cool air !

Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-1800s working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism. The popularity of painting en plein air increased with introduction in the 1870s of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpaste tubes). Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil. The Newlyn School in Cornwall is considered another major location of such painting in the late 19th century.

French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pisarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors. Lucien Pisarro spent quite a bit of time in Youlgrave. I even know which house he lodged at in Bradford Dale. I hope I might spot a Pisarro painting each time I go to a car boot sale
 

Windy day at Monsal Head near Bakewell  

 

 why not keep up your drawing skills at life drawing in Spring 2013?