David Wood

Hi! My name is David and I have been passionate about creating art for over thirty-five years. These days my art practice involves both painting in the studio and outdoors "En Plein Air". Besides drawing, I work in both Oils and Watercolours. Another passion of mine is sharing what I have learnt with others like you. This is why I am offering Online Art Mentoring.

Online Art Mentoring
Mentoring means giving you help with the art projects you are working on. This can be giving you advice on the art pieces you are creating or giving you practical individual lessons about the techniques and principles in creating traditional, representational painting.

The areas I will cover include Drawing and Painting (covering Oil paints and Watercolour) in a representational manner.

The introduction video is one I created a little while ago, this gives you an idea of the art I make and the teaching element. To see more of my work please visit www.davidwoodfineart.com

What you get.

• 1 hour per month personal art mentoring via webcam (using Online Call Software). Or two hours depending on the Tier you choose. The mentoring will be recorded so you can download and keep.

• Date and Time arranged via email correspondence. Available times given via a Google Calendar link.

• Art lesson. One monthly general art task/lesson/tip (either in short video or photo’s and text) available to all the Patreon subscribers in the Patreon Feed. This is a general art task which will cover a specific art principle, method or skill necessary for creating great art.

• Cost. Monthly subscription via Patreon. The monthly cost for the one hour mentoring + General Art lesson will be £33.60 per month; for two hours per month is would be £67.20 (this includes charges the site usage and payment processing fees). You can cancel at any time. Mentoring will be booked once payment has been received (first payment is upfront, following payments on the 1st of the month).

• Please refer to the important details section for more information

Important details.
Timetabling the individual sessions will be calendared in via Google calendar (I will send a link), there you can the see available times. Although I can be flexible there will be some days which I can’t teach. Please note I can’t teach on Wednesdays and Fridays.

It is the responsibility for both parties to attend the agreed appointment. To have a good internet connection and a webcam to carry out the live mentorship. Once a date and time has been set for the mentoring it is important to be online and ready to receive the call. Changes to date and time must be done with 48 hours’ notice.

When I am critiquing work or amending it, I may use digital (Photoshop) or traditional medium to visually describe techniques or correct areas of art work.

Technical details.
Technology. I will have a HD webcam to film the one to one tuition (or record the painting techniques) a recording tuition of which will be shared with you, to look back on. And there would obviously be a requirement on you to have a webcam too and a microphone on your device. If I am giving critique of your art work it will be important for you to be able to send clear and high quality photographs or scans of your art work.High quality means the painting is well lit, as close to the true art work as possible and min of 1000 pixels in resolution.

You will need a to dowload the software Skype on to your PC order to receive the video call. See link https://www.skype.com/en/ . Please bare in mind that it needs to be downloaded to your PC, it's possible using it via a mobile will incure further charges. Please see https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34702/skype-to-skype-calls-are-free-anywhere-in-the-world

Alternatively, Zoom is also a software that can be used and I am able to take/make calls via this application also.

If you have any questions please vist www.davidwoodfineart.com/contact