A warm Watermill welcome to Michael Solovyev, one of our new painting tutors NEXT year. He’s called his week ‘‘Atmospheric Landscape in Watercolour: Studio/Plein Air’ and we are looking forward immensely to seeing how the Tuscan light and the beautiful scenery surrounding the mill influence his painting.
Michael will be with us from Saturday 22 June to Saturday 29 June 2024.
Born in Russia in 1972, Michael Solovyev has chosen Montréal, Canada as his home since 2011. Michael is often called a “sunny watercolourist†– his airy, transparent artworks look as though they emit the sunlight. His traditional academic art education, extensive experience as a head theatre stage designer, and oil painter career now inform his priority as a watercolor artist – light.
Michael will show you how to paint luminous landscapes and add emotions to artwork. During the course, we will combine exercises and training in the studio with work in plein air to consolidate your skills. Michael will share personal secrets and techniques that allow you to create an impressive emotional watercolor in a few simple steps.
It is the individual approach to each student, as well as the generosity with which he shares all the tricks and professional secrets, that made his workshops so popular all over the planet. You can expect plenty of individual nurturung and helpful demonstrations all the time.
Michael Solovyev
22 – 29 June 2024
‘Atmospheric Landscape in Watercolour To learn more, please visit our 2024 Courses review page.
*Don’t forget that you will be Cool and Green at the Watermill: all our bedrooms and public rooms are air-conditioned, powered by our hidden array of photovoltaic cells, which make us self-sufficient in electricity. We’ve already saved more than 35 tons of carbon emissions from conventional power stations. Not only that, we’ve set up toa scheme to remove this year from the most polluted parts of our oceans plastic waste equivalent to some 40,000 plastic bottles. This means our creative course guests will be ‘plastic neutral’ during their stay with us. You can learn all about it by clicking here.
‘Save the planet’ and enjoy inspirational teaching, warm hospitality, delicious food and wine, spectacular locations and, of course, the convivial company of like-minded people.