Introduction

Summer cornfields – don’t you just love them! For me personally recently cut cornfields symbolise for me something that is quintessentially English and romantic about our special landscape in the UK.

Here in North Yorkshire in Ryedale where we live, these local fields close to home never disappoint – whatever time of the year there is something beautiful to behold and express as an artist and i never tire of these special views.

The scene and season is late Summer – September in fact and the bountiful fields with their cut corn symbolise a season of great sunny weather that’s ripened the corn now being harvested.

Early afternoon shadows from the hedgerows and trees cast long shadows across the fields and the round bails lovely interesting pattern of random shapes in the big long fields.

What you will learn

In this masterclass its going to be great to work alongside you and teach you how to create this iconic landscape scene. Using a select range of Unison Colour 16 half sticks (see list below in the materials needed section), during the Masterclass you’ll learn how to layer colour, create expressive marks, build depth in your painting and so much more!

You’ll also discover just how effective Unison Colour pastels are to work with to both ‘paint’ and ‘draw’ with during the masterclass using them in lots of exciting ways balancing detail and expression at just the right moment to create visual interest in the painting.

Together we will use individual colours, intermixed and ‘scumbled’, to express textures and light again and again. Unison Colour Fixative will be used in creative ways to build those all important darks and to create wonderful contrasting areas to those glowing golden cornfields!

Are you excited to make a start and dive in to create your Summer Cornfield pastel painting? – Yes, I am too!