Course Code | SC2004050 |
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Tutor | Tim Benson |
Course Dates | Monday - Wednesday, 9th August - 11th August 2021 |
Days | 3 |
Times | 10.30am – 4.30pm |
Experience Level | Advanced |
Fee | £315 |
Location | Art Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR |
This three-day portrait course will offer an opportunity for intensive study under the tuition of Tim Benson. The class has the benefit of 1:8 model to student ratio, as well as tuition from a talented professional artist. Students will produce at least four oil sketches on the first day and at least one more ‘finished’ painting by the final day. Under Tim’s guidance, students will concentrate on tonal painting allowing the emphasis to be on the form. During the course of the painting there will be an in-depth look at how to mix up colours. The tutor will also be working alongside the students demonstrating a ‘wet in wet’ technique. This exciting course is an intensive three days that offers a high level of tutor contact time.
Educated at Glasgow School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art from 1998-2001, contemporary artist Tim Benson has received recognition with his election as President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. As a practised figurative artist Tim not only creates a distinguishable likeness of a subject but moreover evokes the sitter’s character and mood. He is never satisfied with simple representation, rather concentrating on bringing to his work an emotive and often visceral quality.
“The course was very well structured; excellent demo; we were all working outside our comfort zones quite quickly, and with a really good energy.”