One Week Holiday Course | Painting the Figure

Explore dramatic viewpoints in figure painting using online tools. Daily studies, talks and critiques support your development in tone, form, proportion, colour and composition.

Painting and Sculpture
Drawing the Clothed Model

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One Week Holiday Course | Painting the Figure Image

Course details

Dates

28 July – 1 August 2025

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£440.00

Location

Online

Tutors

Andy Pankhurst

Christina Kimeze Tender (Study of Matthew)

Overview

Our online devices offer extraordinary visual perspectives - cameras and screens can capture foreshortening and dramatic viewpoints that are difficult to achieve in the studio. This online course takes advantage of that potential, offering a rich week of exploration into figure painting using contemporary tools alongside classical ideas.

Each morning begins with a slide presentation or talk, introducing artworks from across history and cultures - from prehistoric sculpture to contemporary painting - to deepen your understanding of the human form and its expressive potential.

Students will paint from a range of models and poses, focusing on daily studies that examine proportion, tone, temperature, colour, composition, and space. With one-to-one feedback, seminars, and group critiques, you will be supported to develop both your technical and conceptual approach to painting the figure.

Who is it for

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

What’s provided

For our online courses, you will receive prior to the start of the course access to our Padlet Noticeboard where you will be given course details, material lists and some references, as well as our Padlet Gallery where you will be able to upload and comment on work created during the course.

What to bring

A detailed materials list will be sent 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 and 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 or primed paper.

Concessions

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

We offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses.