Tree Reflections, River Sparkles
100x100cm Mixed media & collage on canvas
How to work from your sketches and small paintings. It’s not about ‘scaling up’!
Simplifying your compositions to work on a big scale.
I’ll show you creative ways to apply the paint & successfully communicate what you want to say.
We’ll talk about different painting surfaces and tools ( some of which you’ll find around your home! )
We’ll look at why you might choose different size surfaces and the special relationship larger work has with you. (eg 60x60cm & 100x100cm or bigger!)
Do I have to paint really big to do this course?
No. Big can mean different things to different people. For many, a 2ft (60cms) square painting is plenty big enough and that’s absolutely fine. The ideas & processes in this course can apply to smaller work too. It’s all about creativity and having an experimental approach to your painting.
Sound familiar?
Having all that space to work with is daunting.
How do you fill it all up?
How do you control compositions so they work from a distance?
Take your large studio paintings to a new level
How to effectively use your sketches and smaller paintings and translate them to a bigger scale.
Sparkling Sky
100x100cm Mixed media & collage on canvas
What do previous students have to say?
The following students have kindly allowed me to share their work and experiences from being on my workshops, thank you!
Carolyn Marie Souaid
"In this workshop, Lewis shares a practical framework to help artists engage with the landscape and respond to it in a playful and creative way. As an emerging artist, I learned a great deal from his method of working. Lewis is a dedicated and generous teacher— funny, too. Highly recommended.” Montreal, Canada
Gisela Kissing-Divina Luce
"I love playing with the tools I got from Lewis’ course and magic happened" Gisela Kissing, Berlin
Susie Draper
'Doing the course was so helpful to me in my art practice.
It is such an explorative and experimental course, Really helping me to try out and develop different techniques. All in all can’t recommend enough.'
Susie, UK
Kathryn Stotler
"There is so much to be gained in these courses. The processes were key to expanding the artistic direction I wanted to go in. I thoroughly enjoyed it."