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Abstraction IIFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P10TutorMagdalena BlasinskaCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500Material Costs£20 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This course will help you develop a greater understanding of abstract painting. You will look at technical and methodical approaches to painting in a very broad sense, but also critically consider abstraction and abstract painting. You’ll develop a visual and verbal vocabulary allowing you to talk about your own work with more confidence and potentially develop areas for further exploration.
Composition with Portrait & the FigureFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P19TutorCarl RandallCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500Explore approaches to compositions featuring portraits and figures, with a focus on the figure within space. You’ll be able to develop skills in figure painting and will gain a broad and varied understanding of figurative painting, portraiture, design and composition, monotone and colour painting techniques and the use of acrylic and oil paint.
Cultural Inspirations for Painting the FigureFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P52TutorSadie Lee, Susanne du ToitCourse DatesMondays, 20th April - 22nd June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelBeginner+Fee£500This is an opportunity to think more carefully about the context within which you paint a portrait and your intentions for your painting. You'll consider how you might work with a model in creating paintings, using wider cultural references to bring a different layer of meaning to the works you produce. Throughout the course, you’ll work with access to a model and an expert portrait and figure painter. Drawing inspiration from art movements, other artists, theatre and film, literature, or your own ideas, you'll establish a series of scenes or poses and use these as the basis for your paintings.
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Advanced Nude Figure PaintingSold OutCourse CodeE1903P80TutorGiles Lester, James BlandCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£500This is a great opportunity for you to work closely with established artists, focusing on different approaches to painting the figure. You'll explore alternatives to figure painting, employing other unique methods. You'll also learn how to approach the nude figure to make an interesting painting, rather than just a life painting from the model. You’ll relate the model to their surroundings, looking at light and tone and the various merits of different techniques and painting styles.
Painting in PracticeFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P50TutorGavin MaughflingCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500This course will help you discover what it is about painting that motivates and inspires you. You will explore how to develop ideas from initial sketches, how to refine ideas and how to develop coherent work. You will be encouraged to adopt a disciplined creative thinking dialogue in your painting practice, which will enable a more informed approach to your work.
Self PortraitSold OutCourse CodeE1903P27TutorRoxana HallsCourse DatesTuesdays, 14th April - 16th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£500This course explores painting using ourselves as subject matter, from direct observation, photography or other mediums. You'll generate images by examining different aspects of yourself; through ideas of identity, gender, social and familial connections, memories, aspirations and even through the use of costume and allusion. You'll start with the technical aspects of painting, looking at the complications that arise and possible solutions, from which you can begin to adopt approaches that best suit you.
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Contemporary painting – space, architecture, environment.Sold OutCourse CodeE1903P018TutorAlison HandCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500Material Costs£5 (See Daily Breakdown for Details)This new course explores how painting can describe and interact with the language of architecture, environment, and space. The course introduces diverse painting approaches and surfaces, and covers a range of themes including working from moving images; 3 dimensional and site specific painting; city edges and borders. Drawing on a range of source material from film and photography to sketching and study trips, we will build an exciting new painting vocabulary. Each idea will be contextualised with contemporary painters and key theorists, thereby broadening your knowledge. You will be able to use the processes and approaches taught to address their individual thematic concerns as you move through the course. Additionally, you will develop your own ambitious project in the last 3 weeks of the course, which may be a large-scale work, a series of smaller works, or a site-specific painting project. These will be exhibited on the last afternoon of the course in the studio (or off-site if relevant), for discussion and others to come and view.
Kim WhitbyExploring Watercolour & InkFrom: £500.00Course CodeE1903P36TutorKim WhitbyCourse DatesThursdays, 16th April - 18th June 2020Days10Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£500This course aims to introduce students to the water-based mediums of watercolour and ink. Both indoors and outdoors, you will work responsively, exploring the particular qualities of these mediums and learning to use them in combination with drawing, to collect and record findings in a sketchbook and developing your learning into finished artworks in the studio or outdoors if appropriate.
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