This course is held in English, but our teacher understands Swedish and will be able to answer questions in Swedish.
Course content
This course focuses on water, aiming to approach its complexity. From the vision of the seascape to the depths of the ocean, together you'll learn how to draw the surface of the seas and dive into the ocean to explore the animals that inhabit it.
Watercolor or aquarelle is a great material to draw the ocean. The fluidity of the water and pigments helps you elaborate on the movement of the waves and explore the effects of water mirroring.
During the course you will:
- focus on the watercolor fluidity and movement in the brush stroke
- explore the powerful quality of transparency and reflection
- investigate color in a deep way
- find inspiration from live experience and literary reference
- observe distance relationships, from the depth of the landscape to the depth of the ocean
Course structure
Individual work on personal projects in combination with excersises and walkthroughs with the whole group.
Painting water is a big part of the history of watercolor; other artists and literary references will inspire you on this journey. During the course, you will look into the already-known representations of oceans combined with your personal experiences and literary references to submerge in the richness of it.
The course time includes a 30-minute lunch break per day.
Materials
Materials are not included in the course fee.
Recommended book to read: Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco (ISBN: 9781786896438)
Book the course by clicking the red button Boka nu. There is an option to choose a booking form in English.
In need of a different course plan? Get in touch! We develop tailor-made solutions for all types of teaching.
You can reach us at:
046-19 77 00
kurser.syd@folkuniversitetet.se
Kursledare
Helena Fernandez Cavada Romero
Helena Fernández-Cavada has been working as a visual artist for more than a decade.
Helena Fernández-Cavada is a visual artist that lives and works in Malmö. She tries to draw every day in order to launch questions and play with them, a process that ranges from the conceptual nomadism to the questioning of established relationships.
For more than a decade she has develop projects focused on local contexts; during her creative processes a collection of drawings, images and texts are shaped to dialogue with the history making of that locality. She engages also in pedagogical processes and have guided beginners and professional artist to expand their point of view, encouraging them enthusiastically to go further in their own artistic process.
Fernández-Cavada completed in 2004 a Master in Fine Arts and Categories of the Modernity in Complutense University in Madrid. In 2015 Helena engages again with art research during a residency at Mejan Residents at the Royal Academy in Stockholm. She has exhibited widely both in Europe and the Americas.
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