. TONY JACKSON .

. . . . . . . . A UK artist producing paintings in acrylics, pastels and oils. Commissions accepted, including portraits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Teaches adult classes, gives painting demonstrations and workshops to Art societies. . . . .
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                             Tony runs a private class in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.
                                                      This meets on Friday mornings between 10 and12 am. 
 
                                                                     This is a well established class with some long term members but is truly open to all abilities and levels of experience. Various still life groups and natural objects are provided along with photographic examples of landscape, flowers etc.
Some members bring there own work in to develop with help and advice. Tuition and encouragement are given as needed
and a wide range of materials are used according to members interests, typically watercolour, acrylics, oils, pastels.
It costs £8 per session, trial session is free. Ring Tony on 01442 250181 for more details.
 

 

Tony gives demonstrations and runs workshops for Art societies, mostly in the SE of England. 
 
He also offers slide lectures on
 
                               ASPECTS OF COMPOSITION,         LANDSCAPE AND MEANING,        MODERN ART                                                                            
                                                                           Click on this link for more details

 

              (He has his own projector and screen.)                                                  He operates with the agency ART PROFILE  
 
 
Demonstration and Workshop Subjects, in either acrylics or pastels,include-
  Life in India, Portraits, Landscapes, Still Life, Perspective - real buildings or invented forms (see ABSTRACTS page above)
 
                                                       
                                                                                 WORKSHOPS
 
Workshops are typically for 1 day, say 10 am to 4 pm. They start with a small demonstration and then members are encouraged to to more than one study in the agreed style. Topics taught (using acrylics, pastel, oil or mixed media) can be landscape, portrait, still life or other by arrangement.
There are several chances for review and discussion during the day.
 
                                                                                                                                
This is some of the work done by those attending a day's pastel landscape workshop-
    
       
 
                                                           
                    ACRYLICS DEMONSTRATIONS       Click on the following links to see work in various stages

 

 
 
Examples of work done during Acrylics demonstrations on the thems of Life in India-
 
                

Paintings are usually started at speed working tonally in                 The above are acrylic studies (unfinished) done during

ultramarine blue and white.                                                              demonstrations to illustratethis technique.

Other primary colours are added as washes - as in the                     They are on canvas or canvas board,

above recorded at early and later stages during                                mostly 16 x 20 ins.

a 2 hour demo.                                       

 

                                                                  PASTEL DEMONSTRATIONS

 

          

 

                                   

 

The above is a series of photos taken by a member of the audience during a pastel demo portrait from a live model.The study was

done on a canvas panel that had been treated with blue and brown pastel, well fixed with hair spray.

No photo of the final result, but the work was bought by the model!

 

              

              

Above are some landscape pastel quick sketches done by Tony in recent demonstrations.
The emphasis is on speed of execution and essential tonal values.
   

                                      

The above portraits based on photos taken by the artist in India have been done or started during pastel

demonstrations in portrait technique.

 

 

          Stage 1                                         Stage 2

 

The above pastel studies are two early stages of a picture, done on a canvas panel, on the theme of Life in India. They were

taken during a demonstration to an Art Society. The first one shows a tonal study in blue and white with a little colour added.

Stage 2, whilst incomplete, shows how colours can be built up as the work develops.

                                

 

The following is a pastel still life done                                          The following is an acrylic study from a still life

during a demonstration-                                                                done during a demonstration-