Exploring landscape painting – master classes with the Crimean master Alexander Tyunkin

N2N Gallery is proud to invite all aspiring and established artists in Abu Dhabi to work with and learn from a Crimean artist Alexander Tyunkin, who is a Master with Honors in Fine Arts, a qualified lecturer and the winner of several awards, with over 100 exhibitions and works displayed in museums in Ukraine, Macedonia and Russia.

Under the name “Dream House – from Idea to Painting” – the new series of master classes gives you a unique opportunity to create imaginative and metaphorical landscape. You will learn from beginning how to think, see and reason like an artist. Under a gentle guidance of an artist himself, you will make your dream place come true building it on academic principles of composition and colors. As a result, you will have your own version of “home”, place your heart belongs to, presented through the imaginary landscape.

Alexander is an artist who often accepts challenges as a lecturer, always in a position to educate new groups of students. A large number of them went through his studio, especially graduates of arts – making him very experienced as a master teacher. This Class is intended for amateurs but also to graduate artists who will certainly improve their skills learning from the Master, raising their education to a higher level.

The culmination of the course will be a final masterpiece, which will be exhibited as a part of a group exhibition in N2N Gallery on a graduation day!

The 5 days (18 hours) course will take place at N2N Gallery Al Ain Tower (located opposite Jones the Grocer, Khalidiyah, ground floor, entrance through Costa Café).

Master classes duration:  10^th to 14^th of March 2018
Graduation evening: 15^th March 2018, 7 pm

Timings:
Part 1: Saturday, 10^th March
10.00 – 13.00 (break) 14.30 – 17.30
Part 2: Sunday – Wednesday, March 11^th, 12^th, 13^th, 14^st
Morning group 10.00 – 13.00 / Evening group 18.30 – 21.30

Registration: To confirm your participation, please provide us the filled registration form and proof of payment for the course by March 1^st, 2018.

Course fee:  1,785.00 AED / person (excluding supplies)

Seats are limited, reserve yours today!

Master Class Structure:

Homework:  Each participant has a task before the beginning of the master class – to come up with several plots of his future work on the theme “Dream House”. Coming to the lesson, the participant does not spend a lot of time thinking over ideas; you already know with what kind of idea you are going to work.

1^st stage _ Introduction & Composition Basics
Artist will explain the basics of the composition. Very quickly, linearly and schematically he will sketch on the blackboard with a marker sketches of possible landscapes, analyzing the basic laws of composition (the location of the horizon line, the golden section in the landscape, the rhythm of the spots, distances between objects, etc.).

2^nd stage ­_ Graphic Sketching & Building a Composition
Students will apply the received information on the paper. First you will need to outline the frame on the paper in proportions to your future finished format (pre-prepared canvas). Within borders, you will make a linear sketch of your painting. At this stage, artist will guide you and will make corrections to the composition where it necessary.

3^rd stage _ Color Determination within Color Sketching
After disassembling the composition linearly, students will proceed to the color sketch.
On pre-prepared primed cardboards you will replicate the frame you need (the format is the same as in the graphic sketches). Using oil paints, you consider the basic coloristic problems. The main thing here is the color and coloring of the future work.

All these three stages of training will make possible to avoid major mistakes in composition and color on the big work. By artist’s deep conviction, any work with an unsuccessful composition is doomed to failure.

 4^th stage _ Working with the Canvas Format
Having a clear idea about composition, format and color sketch, it’s time to work it out on a canvas format. Under a guidance of the artist the students will take all their previously learned knowledge and bring their composition to life, culminating in the final painting.
 

List of supplies required for the master class

1. Field Easel
2. Wooden palette
3. Oil paint: 120 ml titanium white; 38ml: ocher red, light ochre, cadmium red, kraplak violet durable, strontium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow medium, Indian yellow, ultramarine light, cerulean blue, royal blue, royal green, emerald green, cobalt green light, purple, raw sienna, gray, VanDyck brown, black.
4. Synthetic Brushes:  range from small to large – flat, long hard bristle; 2 of small sizes with pointy or round bristle
5. Odorless thinner
6. Palette knives: small (approx. size 2sm) & medium (approx. size 4sm)
7. Lacquer damarny
8. Charcoal 1 stick
9. Oiler single metal or plastic – 1 pc
10. Simple sketchbook A4
11. Pencils: НВ, 2В, 4В
12. Eraser, soft
13. Primed cardboard A4 – 4-5 pc (for oil sketching)
14. Wooden or plywood tablet, for graphic sketches
15. Canvas:  60×70, 50×70 (recommended)

Other materials required:

16. Apron to protect clothing
17. Cloth for wiping brushes
18. Soap
19. Kitchen towel
20. Plastic bag for rubbish

*Please note that paint might drop on to clothing in the process of painting, wear something that is allowed to get messy