Summer School // Life Painting
This course offers a rare and valuable opportunity to paint from the life model in a sustained pose for the duration of the week. Students will focus particularly on the concepts of painting from perception with the course highlighting discoveries that can be made with the image evolving and transforming in ways that may not have been thought possible. You will be introduced to the artist’s palette (pigments, colour mixing, tonal and temperature value) and formal aspects such as space, composition, and pictorial structure. One-to-one tuition will be given, and all levels of painting experience are welcome, including beginners.
Free charcoal, newsprint and masking tape are provided in the Studios, you can purchase cartridge paper at cost price.
There is an added Co-Co Bello Solvent fee for painting courses which includes a 200ml pot of solvent to use during the course. Please note that no other solvents will be allowed in the studios, in order to protect not only those with allergies but all who paint within our studios. Co-Co Bello is a plant-based, natural & odourless oil painting solvent. It is a replacement for traditional solvents and thinners such as turpentine, white spirit & alcohol. Co-Co Bello is non-hazardous, non-flammable.
You will need to purchase and bring all other recommended materials with you; a material list will be sent out before the start of the course.
This course is for students 18 and over.
Unfortunately, we do not offer concessions on our Summer School 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.
Featured image by Rachel Mercer