Masterclasses
Drawing on our extensive professional network we are able to persuade expert, sought-after practitioners to teach classes – people who are experts in their field and who rarely teach.
WEEKEND
Expressive Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with Hazel Reeves£195.00Course CodeWC2104053TutorHazel ReevesCourse DatesSaturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022Days2Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediate/AdvancedFee£195LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis 2-day workshop is an exciting opportunity to work with top portrait artist Hazel Reeves and is for those with a bit more experience with portraiture. It will enable you to focus on getting expression, character, emotion and movement in your sculptures. Using a different model each day, you will have the chance to sculpt in clay a series of smaller heads focusing on ways of bringing the piece to life, using texture, form, tone and the pose/composition. This concentrated modelling will be interspersed with fun exercises – with clay and without – to bring more spontaneity to your work.
Figure Painting Masterclass with Charles PickardFrom: £200.00Course CodeWC2104051TutorCharles PickardCourse DatesSaturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th August 2022Days2Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediate/AdvancedFee£200LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRIn this exciting weekend course, under the tuition of Charlie Pickard, students will tackle the most challenging and important academic subject to master: the human figure. Students will have the opportunity to study a model from life for a 2-day pose, allowing enough time to thoroughly observe the nuances of form and colour, by painting the model for a total of six hours per day. Critiques will be focused on achieving a high level of academic accuracy, building a strong foundation that will aid in all further artwork. Charlie Pickard will also demonstrate a painting alongside students, using a direct painting method. This is an intermediate/ advanced level course and previous painting experience is required.
Anastasia PollardPortrait Painting Masterclass with Anastasia PollardFrom: £200.00Course CodeWC2103050TutorAnastasia PollardCourse DatesSaturday & Sunday, 11th & 12th June 2022Days2Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAdvancedFee£200LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis two day portrait course will offer an opportunity for intensive study under the tuition of Anastasia Pollard. The course will allow students the freedom to work from two models, both a male and female. Starting with preliminary sketches we will aim to produce a more 'finished' painting of either of the models over the two days. Under Anastasia'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 colour mixing. The tutor will also be working alongside the students demonstrating a 'wet in wet' technique. This exciting course is an intensive two days that offers a high level of tutor contact time
SHORT COURSE
Des HaughtonIntermediate Portrait Painting with Des HaughtonFrom: £355.00Course CodeSC2104151TutorDes HaughtonCourse DatesMonday - Friday, 25th - 29th July 2022Days5Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelIntermediateFee£355LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis five-day portrait painting course will offer an opportunity for intensive study under the tuition of Des Haughton. This is a five-day intermediate course in painting portraits from observation in oils and it is designed for students with previous painting experience. The aim of this exciting Portrait course is to give students opportunity to focus exclusively on the challenges faced when painting a portrait. The course will cover a variety of techniques including how to construct a portrait, how to mix colours, how to see and understand “Tone” and to explore the important role tone (light) plays in creative volume. The final part of the course examines “expression” and the possibilities within portraiture. It's an intensive five days that offer a high level of tutor contact time with Des giving demonstrations, individual guidance, criticism and advice. The course aims to stimulate, refresh and advance your practice on an individual basis. Please be aware that on Friday the class will finish at 4.30pm.
Portrait Painting Masterclass with Andy PankhurstFrom: £375.00Course CodeSC2104351TutorAndy PankhurstCourse DatesMonday - Friday, 8th - 12th August 2022Days5Times9.45am - 4.45pmExperience LevelAdvancedFee£395LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRFor some artists the portrait can be about purely formal aspects, with no relevance placed on the character of the sitter. Under the tuition of Andy Pankhurst you will be encouraged to explore and discover what you personally want to "paint about", working from a model throughout the week. Starting with preliminary drawings on day one you will be introduced to the concepts of measurement and proportion, form, tone, space, composition and pictorial structure. The focus will then be on producing a colour oil sketch from the portrait model with a particular emphasis on colour and temperature. The final three days of the course will be spent on a large-scale portrait painting of a sustained pose. This exciting course is an intensive five days that offers a high level of tutor contact time.
Portrait Painting Masterclass with Tim BensonFrom: £315.00Course CodeSC2104251TutorTim BensonCourse DatesMonday - Wednesday, 1st - 3rd August 2022Days3Times9.45am - 4.45pmExperience LevelAdvancedFee£315LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRThis 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.
Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with David Klein£375.00Course CodeSC2104053TutorDavid KleinCourse DatesMonday - Friday, 1st - 5th August 2022Days5Times10.00am – 5.00pmExperience LevelAdvancedFee£375LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRPortrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This course aims to build upon your previous experience [Intermediate/Advanced] to further how to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your tutor, David Klein, member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (MRBS) and the Society of Portrait Sculptors (SPS). Whether setting out a portrait head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method and/or searching for a more expressive manner of approach, you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural experience. David Klein hopes to impart a few of the tools he has learnt and explore on this course that wonderful tension between finely rendered form and unworked chaos. Portraiture is a search. This search for form, truth and personality requires tools. From the force of the neck into the weight of the head, which in so many ways defines and marks exceptional sculpture. This course will explore the structure, turning points of form, emphasis and simplification.
Portrait Sculpture Masterclass with Ellen Christiansen£375.00Course CodeSC2104253TutorEllen ChristiansenCourse DatesMonday - Friday, 15th - 19th August 2022Days5Times9.45am - 4.45pmExperience LevelAdvancedFee£375LocationArt Academy London, 165A Mermaid Court, SE1 1HRPortrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This course aims to build upon your previous experience [Intermediate/Advanced] to further how to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your experienced tutor, Ellen Christiansen, member of Society of Portrait Sculptors, winner of the 2014/15 Founders’ Sculpture Prize and winner of Heatherley's Prize 2018. Setting out a head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method of approach, you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural progression.