Sebastian Aplin
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I do go on about these, I know! Here's a Sargent landscape that illustrates this idea nicely. I love the way the shapes of the cloud,...

Although I knew that replicating the colours on the photo would lessen the impact of the painting, I was drawn in to using a broader...

In this post I want to go through some of the decisions that I'm making when preparing to paint a landscape, which may resonate with how...

Next Saturday we'll continue exploring how to use the negative space in watercolour by painting some human figures/portraits. We'll do...

Next Wednesday we are going to look at how Lucian Freud painted his portraits. We'll be working on a relatively small scale using hog's...

For our last meeting of this block we will be looking at composition, and if you type in "Still life composition" into the search box you...

There probably hasn't been a more popular fruit for painters over the centuries than lemons. Like all simple spherical forms they are...

On Wednesday we'll be looking at visual texture and how it affects the way we "model form" as we have done up to now. Van Gogh's shoes...

First of all, it was great to see you all on Wednesday! The subject of mediums came up a few times and so I'll share what I know about...

It's hard to choose subject to paint for a still life, in part because objects seem to be uninteresting and so we look for something...

Sketching simple geometric objects is a good way to get used to observing how light reveals form. The main idea is to group together the...

Fruit and veg are usually a favourite in a still life painting because of their colour and interesting form. I wanted to go over some of...

When I leave a painting overnight all the thoughts about where I want my painting style to go in general come to confront me the next...

I wanted to record some of the thought process when I'm painting a still life. Part of the reason I find painting so fascinating is that...