Pounce on the early-bird !!
After a wonderful paint-out in Kilmacurragh yesterday we are already preparing for our next Outdoor Painting Workshop at the Meeting of the Waters. And if you sign up before 7th of May will enjoy our early-bird booking discount. We have a range of packages to suit all levels and interests. Join us May 28th for a day immersed in the Garden of Ireland, sampling Thomas Moore’s magical Sweet Vale of Avoca and painting your stress away.
Outdoor Painting Workshop: early-bird – What’s included?
- Painting demonstration: from blank canvas to finished picture
- Drawing tuition and guidance with an experienced, practicing artist
- Technical advise on colour mixing and composition
- Direction on interpreting light and reading the landscape
- Practical suggestions for painting outdoors
- Historical insights and views of the beautiful Wicklow scenery
Outdoor Painting Workshop: early-bird – Itinerary
We meet at a scenic Wicklow location at 10am and Rod Coyne will provide a drawing/painting demonstration as introduction before the group start their own art works. Throughout the day Rod is on hand with individual tips and techniques for all students appropriate to their level. There is a break for lunch before completing the days work at 4pm. The emphasis is on enjoying the painting process in an informal, friendly atmosphere, and as part of a group dynamic. The workshop is suitable for absolute beginners to experienced painters. It is an ideal chance for those who have dabbled and would like to learn a little more. At the end of the workshop everyone has a picture to take home.
The Meeting of the Waters – Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Yet it was not that nature had shed o’er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green;
’Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
Oh! no—it was something more exquisite still.
’Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.