One Week Holiday Course | One Week One Pose: Drawing and Painting
Spend a week drawing and painting from one pose, exploring tone, colour, and perception through sustained observation, personal response and one-to-one tuition.
There is something very special about “sustained looking,” coming back to the same thing day after day, and finding it different every time. The quirks and inconsistencies of perception are something to delight in. Having one pose for the whole week allows time to fully explore ones responses to the motif, and to experiment with different ways of committing those responses to paper/canvas. A painting can be an image of a figure, of the world, but it can also be seen as a diary of discoveries. Students can use the week as they will, depending on their own sensibility, speed of working or experience, either working on one painting over the week, or several.
Through drawing, painting, discussion and colour demonstrations, we will explore tone, colour, light, temperature, spatial relationships, composition and pictorial structure and rhythm.
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 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 Summer School courses.
All of our course rates are subsidised and we also offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses.
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