Online Art School «Artefacto»
NEW ONLINE COURSE
BY RICHARD SUCKLING
Contemporary Flower
Painting in Pastels
Join Richard Suckling in exploring the captivating world of pastel flower painting, where you’ll learn to simplify complex scenes, embrace the power of tone and color, and create contemporary floral masterpieces using the unique qualities of soft pastels
LIFETIME ACCESS |
NEW ONLINE COURSE
BY RICHARD SUCKLING
Contemporary Flower Painting in Pastels
Join Richard Suckling in exploring the captivating world of pastel flower painting, where you'll learn to simplify complex scenes, embrace the power of tone and color, and create contemporary floral masterpieces using the unique qualities of soft pastels
LIFETIME ACCESS |
Are you looking for a detailed and engrossing course on floral painting? Here it is! At our course, a renowned master Richard Suckling will show you versatile techniques of painting flowers with pastels.
Our instructor will teach you the nuances of pastel medium, explain how to combine drawing and painting methods, and make bold and loose artworks in impressionistic style. Lots of fun and creative discoveries are waiting for you at this course!
Together with Richard, you will explore tonal values, learn to break down a painting in big shapes, make marks and compose large groups of bright colorful flowers. Fresh and exciting paintings from the course will fill you with positive emotions and endless energy!
10 lessons
Video lessons in English with lifetime access
4 paintings
You will create 4 expressive paintings with pastel
High-quality feedback
Individual feedback from R.Suckling
(depends on the plan)
This course will suit artists with any level of pastel painting skills who:
- want to learn to paint flowers with pastels and are in need of a comprehensive course with detailed and easy explanations;
dream to make their pastels fresh, saturated, and effective;
are looking to improving their skills of creating composition, working with tone, and painting with a limited color palette;
feel that their artworks lack boldness and looseness and want to paint with pastel and other mediums more freely.
Richard about the course...
Course Table of Contents
Lesson 1
Introduction
Organizational information, how to use the platform. The list of materials needed for the course.
Lesson 2
Globe Artichokes. Part I
We will learn how to compose a pastel painting with flowers in the landscape and see how to choose a сolour palette to create harmony in the picture.
Lesson 3
Globe Artichokes. Part II
We will learn how being aware of the tonal range in the painting allows an artist to make a successful dynamic picture and how to use colour to our advantage to create a feeling of depth.
Lesson 4
Summer Bed. Part I
We will learn how to simplify and compose a scene depicting a garden summer bed.
Lesson 5
Summer Bed. Part II
We will learn how to use patterns in our composition to lead the viewer through the scene and apply markmaking as well as tone and colour temperature to create depth.
Lesson 6
Sunflower Bouquet.
Part I
We will learn how to compose a successful still life with flowers.
Lesson 7
Sunflower Bouquet.
Part II
We will see how to simplify a scene by breaking down complicated details into the big shapes and using a limited palette for maximum effect.
Lesson 8
Cornish Foxgloves. Part I
We will learn how to arrange a pastel painting with flowers in a natural landscape.
Lesson 9
Cornish Foxgloves. Part II
We will see how to сhoose a colour palette that will bring harmony to the painting, remain aware of the tones as you paint a scene, and use colour to create optical perspective.
Lesson 10
Conclusion
As a creative task, we ask you to combine 2 or 3 reference photos of your own and make a pastel painting, using the techniques learned in the course. Or do a creative task from Richard.
What results you will achieve at the course:
01
Learn to make deep saturated floral compositions with pastels
02
See how to simplify complex compositions, breaking them down in big shapes
03
Understand how to combine painting and drawing methods and achieve a maximum result with a minimum of colors
Meet your instructor
Richard Suckling
- Richard knew he wanted to be an artist at the age of 5, as he watched a repeat of Pablo Picasso drawing on television
- Having studied illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Richard moved to London to work as an illustrator, before heading to the West of England to pursue a career as a landscape and seascape painter over 25 years ago; that was when his passion for soft pastels started
- Richard has written articles promoting the pastel medium for The Artist Magazine, The Leisure Painter, and the Plein Air magazine in the USA. He is passionate about sharing the medium of soft pastels, so he regularly teaches classes and workshops both individually and in groups
- Now Richard paints almost exclusively with soft pastels, enjoying the ability to work swiftly, which is a necessity on location. His style, although loose and in parts abstracted, remains at its core true to the motif but very much with his personal interpretation of the subject
We offer different plans
Standard
- 10 lessons (total 4 h 20 min)
- 4 pastel paintings
- Access to the students' chat
- LIFETIME access to the course
- Bonus 1: 30 ArtiCoins
Elite
- 10 lessons (total 4 h 20 min)
- 4 pastel paintings
- Access to the students' chat
- Individual feedback from R.Suckling on each painting within 75 days
- LIFETIME access to the course
- Bonus 1: 50 ArtiCoins
- Bonus 2: Certificate of completion
- Only 10 spots are available
Standard
- 10 lessons (total 4 h 20 min)
- 4 pastel paintings
- Access to the students' chat
- LIFETIME access to the course
- Bonus 1: 30 ArtiCoins
Elite
- 10 lessons (total 4 h 20 min)
- 4 pastel paintings
- Access to the students' chat
- Individual feedback from R.Suckling on each painting within 75 days
- LIFETIME access to the course
- Bonus 1: 50 ArtiCoins
- Bonus 2: Certificate of completion
- Only 10 spots are available
You have no risks – we support you!
No risk for you*
In case after 1–2 lessons of the coursе you realize that is not for you, YOU WILL GET YOUR MONEY BACK!
*within 14 days after payment
Freedom & Mobility
Make your own schedule and go through the lessons at a comfortable pace – whenever and wherever you like
Certificate of completion (in Elite Plan)
Upon completion of the course for the students of Elite plan we issue a certificate. The certificate could be used as a proof of your qualification's upgrade at work (if it is related to arts) and for your private affairs as a recognition of your mastery in painting.
How is our course organized?
BEFORE COURSE
Full course program
List of course materials
Friendly community of beginner and professional artists
AT COURSE
Recorded video lessons
Watch lessons at your own pace
Closed students' chat
Feedback from artist
AFTER COURSE
Certificate of completion
Own portfolio
Skills and knowledge practiced
Part of our art community
Which materials do you need for the course?
40 - 80 Half or full stick set of soft pastels. For those new to the medium Sennelier and Rembrandt make excellent half stick sets that offer good value for money.
Dark pastel or charcoal pencil.
Sanded pastel paper such as Sennelier La Carte, Pastelmat, Colour Fix or Uart Paper all of which are available in pads, packs or single sheets and preferably not smaller than size 24 x 32 cm.
Pastel fixative.
Wet wipes or damp cloth.
Masking tape 25mm.
Examples of Richard's works
Frequently asked questions
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