One Week Holiday Course | Life Painting: Figure, Colour, Space

This life painting course will offer the varied opportunity to work from different models and poses throughout the week with the highlighted focus on the figure related to colour and space.

Life Drawing
Painting and Sculpture

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One Week Holiday Course | Life Painting: Figure, Colour, Space Image

Course details

Dates

7 July – 11 July 2025

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£445.00

Location

Shoreditch studios

Tutors

Andy Pankhurst

Rachel Mercer Untitled

Overview

This life painting course will offer the varied opportunity to work from different models and poses throughout the week with the highlighted focus on the figure related to colour and space. For the first two days, students will experiment using different colour palettes, painting from single day poses of the model interacting within theatrical settings of colour with the composition a prime concern. This concept will then continue and essentially develop through a sustained pose for the final three days. Aspects of colour theory to include temperature value in relationship to the practical use and choice of pigments, and more will be explored throughout the week. One-to-one tuition and all levels of painting experience welcome, including beginners.

Who is it for

Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels welcome, including beginners.

What’s provided

For studio courses, easels, drawing boards, charcoal, newsprint and masking tape are provided in the studios for free. For our painting courses there is an additional fee at time of booking for Co-co Bello Solvent which includes a 200ml pot of solvent to use in our studios. Please note, no other solvents are allowed in the studios for H&S reasons. If you would like to use our stock of paper within the studios, we charge a paper fee that can be paid by card on the day, at £2.50 per day.

What to bring

A detailed materials list will be sent to you a week prior to the start of the course. You are required to bring your own materials for painting courses; our suggested list includes:

Oil Paint or Acrylic Paint Basic Palette:
-Titanium White
-Cadmium Lemon
-Cadmium Yellow Deep
-Cadmium Red
-Alizarin Crimson
-French Ultramarine
-Cobalt or Cerulean Blue
-Phthalo Blue

Limited Palette: (i.e. the suggested most limited range of pigments)
-Titanium White
-Lamp Black or Ivory Black
-Yellow Ochre
-Phthalo Blue and/or Venetian Red

Brushes and palettes
-Pure Sable Brushes (long-handled for oil painting)
-Hog hair: Round & Filbert brushes
-Palette and Palette Knives

Canvas/Boards
-Prepared and stretched canvas or board (Ready to paint with), maximum size in either height x width dimensions is 36" inches (90cm). Alternatively Oil Painting/Primed paper.

Concessions

Unfortunately, we do not offer concessions on our holiday courses.

All of our course rates are subsidised and we also offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses. View all course fees and concessions.