Learn about painting the light and capturing the essence while painting plein air in the stunning private gardens of Springfield House in Broadway.

Haidee-Jo is an internationally renowned plein air painter, Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil painters and elected member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. She is the author of two books published by Search Press: ‘Vibrant Oils’ and ‘Plein air painting in oils’ as well as a Broadway Arts Festival Ambassador.

Haidee-Jo’s work features fresh and vibrant brushwork coupled with keen drawing and observational skills which result in lively celebratory paintings that glow with light and sing with colour.

This two day workshop is best suited to those with some experience of painting outdoors. Haidee-Jo will be working with oil paints but acrylics or gouache can be used if preferred.

www.haideejo.com

Tickets £245 (15 Places)

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Materials List / What to bring:

• Clothing wise think layers and waterproofs with sturdy and comfortable footwear because even on a warm day you can soon feel chilly when sitting or standing still for long periods. Bring a sunhat or cap, and sunscreen too. 
• A small lightweight sketchbook and black or grey marker pen or soft pencil for quick ‘planning’ sketches is a good idea
• A viewfinder if you have one
• An umbrella is useful for sun or rain
• A lightweight easel, or an all-in-one system such as an Open Box M, New Wave u.go or similar pochade box, together with a sturdy camera tripod to mount it on. Most importantly make sure you have practiced using it before the workshop, know how to assemble it and have a method for comfortably carrying it. 
• A stool if you prefer to sit

Basic colour palette Haidee-Jo uses on location; 

• Titanium whiteCadmium lemon yellow or bright yellow lake
• Cadmium yellow deep or Indian yellow
• Cadmium red
• Alizarin crimson
• Kings blue deep
• Phthalo blue lake 
• Ultramarine blue
• Phthalo green lake or viridian
• Transparent red oxide or burnt sienna
• Raw sienna/raw umber
• Brushes. A range of sizes but mostly flat and filbert shapes, plus a small round or two in nylon or sable. I particularly like to use Rosemary brushes’ Ivory or Eclipse ranges. I have a twelve brush long handled set available from Rosemary & Co, just search Haidee-Jo Summers on their website.

Painting panels – any well primed boards are fine, such as MDF panels with several coats of acrylic ‘gesso’ primer. The Michael Harding non absorbent acrylic primer works well.

My preference is for an oil primed linen canvas mounted to board, or you can make similar with a muslin cloth and acrylic primer (see my Instagram story highlight on panel prep)

Size wise think small and fast, recommended sizes such as 8” x 10”, 9” x 12”, 10” x 10”, 11” x 14”.

I suggest pre-tinting the boards beforehand so that they are not stark white, but more of a light to mid-tone warm grey. A tiny amount of burnt sienna and ultramarine mixed in with plenty of turps and rubbed all over will give you a pleasant light grey which will have a warm or cool bias depending on your mix. 

Or for a faster drying alternative mix acrylic paint colours with your acrylic primer to a suitable tint (you can’t do this if your surface is oil primed of course).

Haidee-Jo’s essential equipment list – which all fits in a medium sized rucksack 

• Pochade box
• Lightweight camera tripod
• 2 or 4 panels in a small panel carrier
• Small tubes of oil colour in a zip bag
• Paper towels
• Painting apron
• Leakproof container of low odour solvent and small jar of oil or painting medium

Springfield House Gardens