Local Landscapes: Plein Air Painting

Local Landscapes: Plein Air Painting Term 1 short course at National Art School Share Tweet Sydney is an amazing city where the built and natural environments compete with and complement each other, providing wonderful vistas for landscape paintings. Kevin McKay inspires you to find unique subjects in your backyard, down the street, or on a short journey to a park or harbour-side location. He provides foundational instructions in the studio, teaching you how to construct a painting from photo references using oils and acrylic paints. You’ll then learn how to draw and paint quick studies within the landscape on excursions to the city and surrounding suburbs, helping you develop your painting skills with reference to the intimate and public places that you already know yet are waiting to be discovered more deeply. Kevin gives demonstrations of how to structure a composition with correct proportion and perspective, colour-mixing and paint-layering, and embraces the challenge of capturing the fleeting effects of light. This course will benefit the novice as well as those with previous painting experience. Kevin McKay is an urban landscape painter who seeks out beauty in the everyday; he holds a Masters in Fine Art from the National Art School and has been awarded many art prizes including the Basil & Muriel Hooper Scholarship from the Art Gallery of NSW, 2006; the Sydney City of Villages Art Prize, 2009; the inaugural William Fletcher Foundation Scholarship to The British School at Rome, 2011; the Kogarah Emerging Artist Prize, 2012; the Waverley Oil Painting Prize, 2013; the Allan Gamble Memorial Prize, 2015; the People’s Choice Award, Waverley Art Prize, 2016, the People’s Choice Award, Greenway Art Prize, 2017; and Bayside Art Award, 2018. His paintings are held in many private collections and he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia. Advertisement Where National Art School Forbes Street & Burton Street, Darlinghurst Get directions on Google Maps When Saturdays, 10am to 2pm Saturday 22 February to Saturday 18 April 2020 From 2020-02-22T10:00:00+11:00 To 2020-04-18T14:00:00+11:00 Cost Course fee: $830.00 Book tickets More Info Website Phone 02 9339 8744 Twitter Facebook Instagram Hashtag: #nas Event tags Creative Painting Short course Visual arts Workshop Advertisement Are we missing something? Help us improve this listing. Like this event? See more: Twitter Facebook Instagram The latest events direct to you