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 deeply rewarding about returning to the same subject each day and discovering something new every time. This course celebrates the art of sustained looking, taking time to observe, reflect, and respond to a single pose throughout the week.
With one figure pose as our focus, students are encouraged to explore their individual responses to the motif through drawing and painting. This slow and thoughtful approach allows space for experimentation, whether working on one piece across the week or producing a series of studies. A painting can be more than a depiction; it becomes a visual record of subtle discoveries and evolving perception.
Through practical exercises, group discussions, and colour demonstrations, we will explore tone, colour, temperature, light, spatial relationships, and pictorial structure. The course is open to all levels, with individual guidance tailored to each student's pace and experience.
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.
