Doing An Art Course At The St. Ives School Of Painting, Cornwall
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Some snippets from a course I did for a few days this past week, at The School of Painting in St. Ives Cornwall - a wonderful venue which is celebrating its 85th year!
I took the Observation and Abstraction class, taught by Camilla Dixon, and had a lot of fun!
www.schoolofpainting.co.uk/
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I love that you had a great time with your friend in the course and have been commissioned; hope that you will be able to share the WIP or work when it’s completed. Cheers to the magic and majesty of Cornwall…I’m absolutely enchanted by it.🥂
Thank you! Yes, I still frequently can't believe how happy I am to be living here!
That’s sounds like my school days, “Jane is always distracted by looking out of the window”😂,really enjoyed this, thanks Helen for taking us along.
🤣 Love it! Thanks!
“Here’s me giving my favorite boat a little hug.” - Such a wonderful vlog!
Haha, thanks!
I have a feeling that even if you don’t think so now these abstraction lessons will find their way into your landscapes! Let it all sync in and see what comes!
Yes, I'm very happy for it to all percolate and glad I at least tried to engage with the process!
These are my very favorite type of video from you. Seeing snippets of your life and art inspirations is just lovely. Because we are so far away from each other, I truly enjoy it when you share your location. I, too, would have been distracted by that view! The photos of you are darling and it was so nice you could do this with a friend. Your work is great! Thanks for sharing…..
Have a great weekend. 😊
That's really lovely of you - thank you!! Hope you're enjoying a good weekend too!
I loved those little sketches taken from the bigger one where you used the granulating paints. They would make lovely little prints. Thank you gor making the video. 😊 💕
Hiya! It's a good technique isn't it?! I loved selecting the new mini compositions!
Your sneaky landscape is absolutely beautiful, definately your style. Though I am glad you went out of your comfort zone and did something totally different. Helps you look at things different, and shows you what you really enjoy and what you dont. Never hurts to try new things! Keep up the wonderful work!
Thank you! I definitely learnt things anyway, and had fun, so I'm not complaining!
Absolutely brilliant Helen - and so good you could meet up and spend time with your friend too. 🐨👍
Thank you - it was wonderful!
Love your friendly chatty style. It was lovely to see a glimpse into your week at the art class in St Ives.
Thanks so much!
Sounds like a fun three days. So good you could do this with you friend. That area looks beautiful. No wonder you were distracted by the view! And a commission too!
It was wonderful, and time with my friend was precious.
I heard you say you live close to Godrevy Lighthouse. I have a painting of that by John Higgins of the St. Ives school hung in the living room. Bought it some 20years ago now from a local art shop and it still fascinates me. I exchanged a couple of emails with John, but he'd painted Godrevy so many times he couldn't remember it, but it was his work alright. I can't post a photo of it here sadly. I'd love to visit St Ives again, I was a kid of 11 the last time and couldn't appreciate it as I would now.
That's so cool! I need to go and look up his work. I live a few miles away, but don't actually visit it that often - mostly see it while looking from St. Agnes to St.Ives and vice versa.
Thanks for posting this, it brought back wonderful memories of a week I spent with a group of artists from Norfolk in the town. The week was part of a year long series of workshops at Kings Lynn Art Centre in the early 2000s studying the work of the post war St. Ives artists. We hired a room to base ourselves in, and visited a number of artist studios, including Roy Ray, and Sandra Blow, plus several of us attending life drawing sessions at the St. Ives School. There was a Terry Frost show on at the Tate St. Ives at the time too. The inspiration from this visit informs my work to this day
It sounds absolutely wonderful!!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience. It looks like fun.
Thanks so much!
What a beautiful spot for a course!! The course itself sounds like it would be WAY outside my comfort zone 😅, although it would be a fantastic learning experience. Palette knife paintings are my favourite way to use acrylic paint. Congrats and good luck with the commission work!
It was so much fun, regardless!
Thank you for sharing these wonderful 'snippets' into your week and for being brave enough to 'embrace the process'; I'm not sure I could find the courage to do something like that with my introvert nature🙄
I've stayed not too far from the school before, such a fab location to spend a week doing what you love❤️
I really like the sound of the viewfinder exercise and your 'sneaky little landscape' is fab! Huge congratulations on your commission too🙌🏼
It definitely helped having a friend there, and I tried not to take my art very seriously! Yes, it's an incredible place! Thanks!
I find sharing so scary in workshops. I am also self taught, and do art just for myself so I am easily intimidated. But...on the whole, I find it a great learning experience and it is so nice to step out of our normal routines and to just spend several days solely focused on art. Thank you for sharing!
Yes definitely! That's so me though too - easily intimidated!!
What an exciting thing to do! St Ives is special & I’m not surprised you were distracted by the view from your desk but I’m really glad you enjoyed some parts of the course. Once it all percolates through I’m sure it will all add to your enjoyment of working. And a commission! 🎉
Yes, I feel really lucky to have had the whole experience!
You are lucky to live so close to this beautiful x=scenery and ocean...I guess you walk out to your boat in low tide...and wait for the tide to come in before sailing off...I'd love to visit Cornwall and St. Ives...thanks a bunch for sharing...love seeing how things a "run" in different countries...quite different...seems less ridgid...more relaxed.
Best wishes from The Yukon...Canada...Janis
I didn't give much thought to how they use the boats 🤣 Love knowing where people are from - I'm afraid I know very little about the Yukon though! In what ways do we seem less rigid?
The course looked really amazing with lots of exciting and inventive ways to see and make shapes. Sometimes our creative selves are in a different place. Your work, what you showed of it looked good to me. I love the sneaky landscape you did ❤
Thanks ever so much!
Giving the boat a hug, aaaawwww! 🤗
Managed to visit it most days!
this is so stunning ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing this experience with us. Sometimes these things lead us in a different direction from which we expect, and in your case it seems that is the case. What a wonderful place to spend a week at, though! I’m a little bit envious! I’m sure the experience will help you in some way. Congratulations on being commissioned!
I'm sure the different elements of the process we were shown will sink in and re-emerge in some way. It was wonderful to be there, definitely! Thanks!
What a lovely vlog...loved it! I'm an amateur artist 🎨 from Northern Ireland and I too would struggle with 3d model making😅..! Loved your watercolour/charcoal seascape. I think we all get stressed if we have to display something we're not 100-percent happy with. Will be watching some of your past videos too. Keep up your wonderful creative work. 😊
Ahh, thank you! I definitely need a thicker skin for embracing the process of trying to improve at art!
This was very interesting. Such a pretty place. So glad you enjoyed classes even though you were distracted by the windows. 😁💛
I'm sure I was not a very good student, but still loved the whole experience!
Wow, that looks wonderful. St. Ives in Cornwall is a well-known hub for artists.
It's such a great place!
Looks like a lot of fun, and a commission too!! ❤❤❤
What a great morning walk & view of the harbor. ❤ I actually love the line drawings you were hesitant to display. 🌸 I find sometimes we are too hard on ourself & own Art. ✨
Thank you so much!
So beautiful!
love the landscape best!!
Thanks!
Like your views of St.Ives, & the exercise’s seem really interesting, like the 3d & 2 d‘s pics. So glad you enjoyed the course. The weather seemed kind to you. Thanks
It's such a great place! Thanks!
@@helencryer Super that you appreciate it & use it for your art works that I always enjoy watching.
I think you’re way too hard on yourself Helen (says the serial harsh self critic!😉)! I love all the still life line work and collage that you did! Maybe it’s easier to find fault with things that we’re just not feeling 🤷🏻♀️ But it’s ’all grist to the mill’ and techniques learnt may make surprise appearances in the work you have yet to make.😊 And big congrats on getting a commission!😀
Haha, thanks! Yes, I definitely wasn't feeling it much, but I was happy to go through the process, and hopefully you're right, and some things will sink in!
Hello you just popped up on my feed. I really enjoyed your video. My son and his family lived near Marazion and l really came to love the area. What a lovely place the school seems and l loved the work you showed here. Thank you for sharing your experience.....Alioban
Thanks so much! Marazion is a wonderful spot too! I moved to Cornwall about 4 years ago, and am in love!
lm not surprised. lm on the West coast of Scotland. Just love the wildness, like parts of Cornwall 😊
your landscape is fantastic. i bet the other stuff you were doing at the art course had some kind of influence... :) St. Ives School looks amazing. i follow the painter Alice Mumford who also teaches there, i think. thanks for 'taking us along'!
Just hoping it will help me be less tight. It's such a cute place!
Your work is great
That's really kind, thanks!
Looks a great course but I think I would find it too overwhelming! Only just getting to grips with some basic sketching and water colour. Think I may too have gone rogue and done a sneaky sketch. I love Cornwall and haven’t managed to get down there for a while, so now I’m sketching(or at least trying to), I may have to revisit some of my favourite places with sketchbook in hand. Thanks for sharing.
That's great you're getting into art though!
Cornwall would be a wonderful place to come and sketch!!
Thank you. I got a lot out of your video.
Thanks!
What a super vlog you have produced and congratulations on securing a commission. I too, hope to see some of that as you go along. I like the way you will sometimes give us a “warts and all” of your work, but feel that occasionally you are too self-deprecating (or are we all given to that?). I think we are all eager for your next feature.
Thanks very much! With regards to self-deprecation, all I can say is that I feel compelled to give as honest as possible thoughts on what I'm doing. It's definitely negative at times, but is never said for effect.
Hi Helen! What a trip! ❤ would love to do something like this. Did you feel you learned a lot?
I really enjoyed it, but it probably wasn't the best course I could have chosen, as it wasn't especially suited to how I want to develop.
@@helencryer it’s fascinating to see how you’re going through your art journey. I don’t think of myself as an artist but I’m using drawing and painting as a self development tool, it gives me something to work towards to and relieves the anxiety of my everyday. :) Thank you so much for sharing your practice.
I like the sound of drawing the same thing with various restrictions, but in reality I think I’d really struggle! Sounds like a good course for taking everyone out of doing their own natural style, but again I think I’d struggle with that (I find it really hard to do abstract things and I don’t even know why). Thanks for sharing! And well done for putting your pics on the wall even though you weren’t happy with them, very brave!
It was a useful process to make us 'see' differently, and not be so tied to a set way of representing something. Hopefully it will help free me up a bit more. Thanks!
I actually like your paintings. But I will confess that the exercises sound intimidating.
They were pretty fun as long as I wasn't invested in the result being the slightest bit good!
@@helencryer It’s difficult to get out that mentality, but I found a trick that helped.
What a lovely opportunity Helen, thanks for sharing x
Thank you!
I think you underestimate your abilities and expertise as an artist. To be interviewed by the guardian was one thing, but to be asked to be commissioned to do a drawing or a work on a personal level is right up there with the winner circle. So don’t beat yourself up too bad your art is beautiful.
You're very kind, thank you! I think the request was based on my sketchbooks rather than anything I'd done on the course!