Weekly Online Zoom Courses

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Spring 2024 Zoom courses

Live project working with demos, discussions, and study of relevant image examples, breaks as needed. Lots of support, encouragement, and guidance, plus group and individual feedback. Sessions are recorded and the video is available to access or download soon after the session. 

My spring courses consist of 11 3-hour weekly sessions (33 hours teaching overall) - delivered in small groups to allow for ample personal guidance. I have over 40 years of experience and provide tailored 1:1 and group support within the sessions, as well as live demonstrations of techniques, to ensure every student gets what they need out of each course. Each session is live and hosted on Zoom, including breaks as needed, with demos, discussion/study of relevant image examples, live project working, support and guidance, plus group and individual feedback both during and in between sessions. Zoom invite links are sent out by email the day before, and all sessions are recorded, and exclusively available for students to access soon after the session. I can advise how to download Zoom prior to the first session if required. Courses can often be joined after the start, when emailing just check with me.

Payment is 4-weekly in advance, with any extra added to the last payment, with students committing financially to the whole course when booking. If possible, Roz can offer an opportunity to attend another session if one is missed. 

Read below for more details of what I’m offering this Spring:

Pastel Portrait Painting  - soft and oil pastels with underpaintings   

Wednesday 10th Jan - 20th March - 3hr sessions with break

£21 per session - for payment info see above.

We’ll make loose watercolour or other water-based paint underpaintings on watercolour paper to explore this expressive mixed media approach for portraits, taking advantage of the matt and stable surface underpaintings offer. 

Working with soft pastel techniques including investigating clear, texture Gesso, and oil pastel for wonderful subtle blended colours, we’ll be particularly practising textural mark making, tone and colour to describe character, light and mood……

We’ll be looking at work by Sally Strand, John Threlfall, Liz Chaderton, Judith Carducci and Penelope Milner (image, ‘Clara’).

Loose, fun Watercolour Techniques - Natural History Subjects

Thursday 11th Jan–21st March, 10.15am-1.15pm - 3hr sessions with break

£21 per session - for payment info see above.

Exploring landscape, botanical, wildlife and natural forms projects, we’ll work with a range of fun, loose and creative watercolour techniques appropriate for each subject matter, including wet into wet, mark-making, masking and lifting out, granulation fluid, Gouache body colour and more. No experience in the subject matter and just a little with watercolour needed. We’ll look at work by Ann Blockley, Darren Woodhead, Kate Osborne, and Tom Shepherd (image, Coal Tit).

Wild Landscapes - Mixed media seascape, estuary, and coastal wildness!       

Thursday 11th Jan–21st March,  2.15-5.15pm - 3hr sessions with break

£21 per session - for payment info see above.

Water based paint and mixed media Landscape painting, exploring coastal areas – beach, seascape – and dunes, marshes, and wild coastal habitats. We’ll work with loose painting techniques, using a range of methods and tools, including pastels, gouache, Gesso surfaces, granulation textures, and some collage, acrylic inks, and layering techniques. We’ll look at work by Pascale Rentsch (image, ‘Upon the rock the Gannets nest’), Darren Woodhead, John Threlfall, and others.

Please note

The original images by other artists shown above are to demonstrate what style, approach and techniques we’ll be studying. Other artists’ original artwork is used to study techniques in these learning environments / situations. The artists are credited, and the resultant student work is not presented as students’ own, but as part of their progress in a learning journey to understand techniques, master skills and therefore gain confidence towards developing their own artistic style and voice.

More Information

Groups are for beginners and improvers, with sympathetic help and guidance within a friendly, supportive environment. Individual feedback is given throughout and there are no assessment forms in sight! Many of my students have not picked up a pencil since schooldays, having had a less than encouraging experience at the hands of a teacher in primary or secondary school. I understand this and is passionate in her belief that anyone can learn to draw. Live online art sessions including breaks as needed, with demos, discussion and study of relevant image examples, live project working, support and guidance, plus group and individual feedback both during and in between sessions.

 

  • I can't recommend these highly enough, and nor can the other students doing them. Roz has mastered Zoom lessons so well, and has all the right equipment, thanks to good IT advice, so we can see in detail all her demos, plus Roz can watch us doing our own work. At the end of a lesson we email a photo of our work so far, and comments come back from her. Another huge advantage is that she records each lesson, so catching up is so easy. No more carrying heavy bags around to lessons, and parking issues... everything is at hand in your own home, wherever you choose to paint (My son's bedroom looks rather taken over by 'the brush'!) And of course no health risk.

    Val, Wildlife and Landscape student

  • I have been enjoying Roz's art class for just over 2 years now and it has been an absolute joy. Roz is a great teacher very motivating and encouraging and classes are fun and informal. The zoom classes work really well making it easy to see Roz's demonstrations, ask questions and show your own work. I have learnt so much and enjoyed every minute.

    Jane, Portrait and Colour student

  • Forget COVID, forget that you may have overeaten during lockdown and Christmas, forget all your worries by signing up for one of Roz Nathen's Art Courses. You will get two and a half or three hours of escapism into the world of art, colour mixing, sketching, painting, observing, listening and creating. The outside world is forgotten as new skills emerge. Roz is a very talented, experienced, encouraging and patient teacher who will guide you through the stages required. She offers a wide variety of courses to suit all abilities. This is my second year of joining her courses and I wish I had done so much earlier.

    Anne, Wildlife and Landscape student

  • I took the plunge into online art classes in September as a project to keep me busy and sane during lockdown this year. It's been so rewarding! I had told Roz that I really didn't know how to apply paint beyond schoolgirl watercolours. I signed up for her portraits and also landscape classes involving acrylics, watercolour and gouache and mixed media. Roz's approach this term was to take us step by step through a project working from well-chosen paintings of various artists to learn a wealth of techniques, taking a few lessons to complete each project. Learning online with Roz's overhead camera set-up is probably better than if we were in a real room together as she completes her own version of the painting in stages with us. This is in amazing close-up in front of our eyes. We see Roz mixing colours, her brush choices, and paint application with her explanations throughout the process and we have a continuous dialogue with this expert with very constructive feedback on our own work to keep us on track. Oh, and we do have fun conversations. The result? My family has been so impressed with my painting that I have actually framed several of my pieces!! And as a bonus I have found the zoom sessions provide me with important social interaction with like-minded people twice a week. I am now in Tier 4 and I am still sane. Art really helps! Thanks Roz!

    Stephanie, Portrait and Landscape student

  • Roz teaches you all you need to know; the angle to hold the brush, the pressure to apply, the different effects you can achieve with brushes and the paint. You can't get all that from YouTube videos! Zoom adds a great way for us to closely watch instruction and ask details as we go.

    Jean, Landscape student

  • I have really enjoyed the last term of portrait painting, learning all the different techniques and putting the knowledge of paint mixing from the last course into use. Using zoom is great - being able to see in closeup your techniques, and of course Roz’s endless patience!

    Lucy, Portrait and Colour Student

  • Always interesting and well planned, Roz’s Zoom lessons are a real learning curve. I have attended three of her Zoom classes, and learn something new and helpful on every occasion. Roz is a good artist, but also is a qualified teacher – always evident in her approach – I really enjoy her creative ideas, and I am going to sign up for as many classes as she would like to give.

    Gill, Botanical / Personal Projects / Abstract / Portrait / Drawing Buildings student

  • Roz is a patient and encouraging teacher with a wealth of knowledge to impart, her recent Zoom classes have been so easy to access and such a pleasure to be part of in this difficult time.

    Lynne, Drawing Buildings student

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