Watercolour painting holidays in France, one week - holiday programme.

Six days of holiday OUTDOOR watercolour painting at inspiring locations. Capture the LIGHT, MOOD and ATMOSPHERE of the Tarn region. Progress daily at your own pace, try different techniques and materials to develop your own impressionist style. Achieve all of this and explore the countryside, historic towns, markets and local life.

Create translucent washes that capture the bright southern light and colours of the region. Develop a strong sense of tone to help you create pictures of the dusty faded buildings that define the essence of southern France today.

If you have never painted before this holiday programme will be the best possible way to let your watercolour painting take off.

Benefit from a structured watercolour painting holiday programme, developed and delivered by a qualified art teacher and artist.

Specially selected locations will both inspire and provide the subjects that enable you to achieve results and confidence quickly.

Art Groups & Experienced Painters

Work in your preferred media and workout your own painting holiday programme!

Configure your own painting holiday programme, use your preferred media and select the locations and daily schedule to meet your objectives.

For example, choose different times of day to paint sunsets or the morning misty valleys and hills. Focus on towns or buildings. Whatever you want to paint we can help and get you to the right place at the right time.

Paintings at outdoor locations by Allan Kirk

Painting Steps to holiday Success - Day by Day
Painting holiday day one - Materials, and Techniques	Day One is spent at the farmhouse, and provides an introduction to materials and techniques. The painting is loose, and there are plenty of interesting views to work at around the garden and the village.	Click for day one detail schedule
Painting holiday day two - Composition, Wash and Colour	Day Two is spent in the heart of the countryside where rolling hills and valleys are punctuated by small towns. sunflowers, poppies, golden corn and lush trees stretch into the distance where they meet the black mountains and beyond to the Pyrenees. Painting is loose, drawing is minimal, and we will use all our colours to create broad wet on wet washes.	Click for day two detail schedule
Painting holiday day three - Finishing or changing pictures in the studio. Spend the afternoon painting outdoors on location.	Spend the morning in the studio, practising studio techniques to help us improve pictures we have started outdoors. In the afternoon we will paint at an outdoor location	Click for day three detail schedule
Painting holiday day four - Light Mood and Atmosphere	Day four is spent at one of the existing outdoor locations. We will choose the site as the week goes on. On this day we will consider Mood and how we achieve that excitment and tranquility that we seek in our pictures.	Click for day four detail schedule
Painting holiday day five - Albi Day. Drawing, tone, and light. Toulouse Lautrec Museum, Albi town, shops and cathedral	Albi gives us the opportunity to realise the importance of drawing as a base for our watercolour painting. We can achieve this in a location that lets us select simple or more complex subjects, from the cathedral to the old bridges that cross the Tarn. Each subject is bathed in the strong southern light and shadows provide an impressionist dream of strong dark tones and vibrant contrasting light.	Click for Albi detail schedule
Painting holiday day six - Revel Market Day. Spend Saturday morning at the bustling market in Revel. In the afternoon relax or paint in the studio	Designated as one of the best 100 markets in France it draws crowds from many miles.
If there any local events, like night ,markets, or outdoor concerts, these will be included in the day and the times for dinner adjusted accordingley.

Contact Lesley and Allan Kirk email to painting@tarnincolour.com