Experience Breaks

with Ronald Swanwick

at Warner Leisure Hotels

Where grown-ups love to let go

...notes on each of these courses are appended to this page - please scroll down..
Breaks at Thoresby Hall, Newark, Nottingham.  Tel 01623 821000

Drawing  7th to 9th September 2009
Watercolour Getting Started  15th to 18th March 2010
Painting like Monet  30th August to 2nd September 2010
Watercolour - Autumn  25th to 28th October 2010
Painting like Monet  15th to 18th November 2010
Breaks at Holm Lacy House, Hereford, Herefordshire.  Tel 01432 870870

Drawing  12th to 14th October 2009
Watercolour - Trees  3rd to 6th May 2010

Painting like Monet  28th June to 1st July 2010
Walking and Sketching  9th to 12th August 2010
Watercolour - Autumn  4th to 7th October 2010

Breaks at Alvaston Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire.  Tel 01270 624341

Drawing for the Terrified  17th to 20th May 2010
Walking and Sketching  19th to 22nd July 2010
Watercolour - Trees  13th to 16th September 2010
Breaks at Bodelwyddan Castle, Conwy, North Wales.  Tel 01745 585088

Walking and Sketching  21st to 24th June 2010
Drawing for the Terrified  8th to 11th November 2010
Breaks at Littlecote House, Hungerford, Berkshire.  Tel 01488 682509

Drawing for the Terrified  14th to 16th June 2010
The breaks start with an evening demonstration / discussion of the materials and subject matter. The next two days are full of drawing / painting tuition and demonstrations, with a chance for any follow up on the day and an opportunity to purchase materials.

For more information and to book, either...
..Call Reservations on 0870 601 6012,
..Contact the hotel or resort direct,
..See your local travel agent,
or visit   www.warnerleisurebreaks.co.uk

Course Notes
Watercolour - Getting Started.
A down to earth approach to understanding the basic skills of this wonderful medium. We will cover all the basic techniques employed in good representational watercolours.

Walking and Sketching
This break is designed to teach you the skills of executing brief, accurate and creative sketches in about 20/40 minutes. These kind of sketches are wonderful for capturing compositions for future paintings or for creating a diary of visual memories.

Painting Like Monet
This break is an exploration of the ideas and techniques of the Barbizon School otherwise known as the ‘Impressionists’. Monet was a leading exponent of the style and we shall study his thoughts and ideas about the depiction of light.

Watercolour - Autumn
This break will develop your general skills as a watercolorist and in particular help you to understand how to co-ordinate your colours to create a harmonious painting. If the weather is kind to us and we will work outside. If not I will have a good range of photographs to work from.

Drawing for the Terrified
This break is designed to teach you the skills of observational drawing. Drawing is a ‘skill not a gift’ and so anyone can learn. The course will cover the basic understanding of how to get everything on the page in the right place and in the correct proportions with accurate tone and texture.

Watercolour - Trees
We will cover the four seasons and look particularly at harmonising your choice of colours. We will work from life or from my sketches and photographs.