2 Day Oil or Acrylic Painting Landscapes and Urbanscapes Impressionist Workshop for artists with some prior experience with oil or acrylic paints

Improve your landscape and urban scape painting skills, painting in an impressionistic style with one of the best Impressionist Tutors in Australia.

Course outline

Colley will ensure that each student has the fundamentals to produce paintings with powerful light effects, loose brushwork, and a sensitivity to the subject. Colley will be focusing his attention on tonal values, composition, brushwork, colour saturation and paying special attention to the importance of edges. His workshops are conducted in a positive and uplifting manner. Colley will employ a step-by-step process allowing all students the best chance to see the way a painting is constructed.

Who should enrol?

This course is suitable for artists with at least a basic level of skills in oil or acrylic painting but is also suitable for artists with advanced skills especially those that would like to enhance their skills at creating impressionist landscape and seascapes.

Your Tutor - Colley Whisson

Colley Whisson is an internationally recognised artist he was born in 1966 and raised in the northern regions of Brisbane, Australia. Under the guidance of his father renowned artist Eric Whisson, he commenced oil painting at the age of 20. Colley’s first Solo Exhibition was a sell out at the age of 24 a rare feat indeed. Since then, Colley has held numerous Solo and Joint Exhibitions; writing magazine articles and his 2 Books & recent E-book is sought after by collectors and many libraries nationally and internationally. Colley’s downloadable demonstrations & DVD’S are collected by students worldwide. He believes “It is not what you paint but how you paint it”. At an early age, he had mastered the most difficult technique of all; painting light which has become synonymous with his work. Aiming to paint with precision to convey the purest message possible and striving to capture spontaneous loose impressions each time he returns to his easel. His work has touched many, even his fellow artist expressed the desire to learn from him. With physical workshops and his online teaching course, he is in great demand. He loves nothing more than the challenge of pushing himself to find new subjects to paint. He has been tagged as one of World's finest Impressionist painters. Colley has a strong belief that he is not copying nature but giving expression to visual ideas.