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IJmuiden Harbour Weekend Workshop (drawing and painting)

The Harbour Art Room, "HAR" (note the link in the top menu) is Vondelpark Atelier's larger studio (240 m2) at the coastal town of IJmuiden, about half an hour from Amsterdam by car (abundant free parking space in front of the studio). Our HAR is located inside IJmuiden's harbour.

As any industrial harbour to a large city, the IJmuiden harbour offers exciting and ever changing painterly views of colourful and intimidating objects and constructions: Cranes, fishing boats, huge cargo and cruise ships and a light house ..

In this Weekend Workshop we start exploring the harbour with a photo camera (or cell phone) on Saturday morning and work on composition sketches at the studio in the afternoon. On Sunday a larger drawing or a painting can be worked on inside the studio.

There are easels at the studio and the school will cater drawing materials and some paints (acrylics in primary colours), papers, coffee, tea and snacks, and on Sunday afternoon there will be a merry conclusion. Both beginners and more advanced can participate.

The dates for the weekend are yet to be decided, depending on the weather report and availability of the teachers.

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