One Week Holiday Course | Painting the Figure

Students will have the experience of painting the figure from a variety of models and poses. Daily studies, talks and critiques support your development in tone, form, proportion, colour and composition.

Painting and Sculpture
Drawing the Clothed Model

One Week Holiday Course | Painting the Figure Image

Course details

Dates

20 Jul – 24 Jul 2026

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£440.00

Location

Online

Tutors

Andy Pankhurst

Christina Kimeze Tender (Study of Matthew)

Overview

Fascinatingly, our contemporary online devices, screens and cameras, echo a way of working that can lead back to renaissance times and artists inventions that required single-eyed vision of the spatial three-dimensional world, observed and viewed through flat glass planes and perspective frames. These devices can create extreme and exaggerated foreshortening when wished for, unrivalled in any studio.

Morning slide presentations and talks will be given to start each day exploring images and concepts from paintings, drawings and sculpture of the human form; from the very earliest known to us, to the global contemporary, in order to help engage and inform our study of the formal aspects of painting the figure. One-to-one tuition will be given throughout the day whilst a combination of seminars and critiques will bring them to a close.

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.

Tutors

Andy Pankhurst

Tutor