Final portrait painting session
We will finish off the course by painting a portrait from a resource image that you bring in. The idea is that we will be using the...
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- Mar 20
- 1 min
Long pose model session
For the Friday group this will be our last session with a model, although our last session will be on Friday 31st of March when we will...
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sebastianaplin
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Life model pose
For the Thursday group this will be the third of our life model poses and also the last session of the course! We will start off with...
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sebastianaplin
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Statues
This is the topic I was going to look at two weeks ago and so wanted to fit it in before our long pose life model session next week so...
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sebastianaplin
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Clothed figure painting
On Thursday our model will be clothed and the session will be an extension of the "figures in interior settings" we did, where we looked...
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sebastianaplin
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Clothed life model painting
We managed to increase the narrative possibilities of our painting last week by creating thumb nail sketches that concentrated largely on...
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sebastianaplin
- Mar 6
- 1 min
First figure painting session
For our first session with a life model we are going to concentrate on how light reveals the form we want to paint. Last week we looked...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Painting clothed figures
On Friday we're going to practice painting clothed figures so that we don't get lost in painting individual items of clothing but rather...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Painting the human figure
On Thursday we are going to practice painting the human figure by carefully observing how light and dark shapes interconnect. We'll look...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Life model session
Apologies for cancelling last week's class and I am now on the mend. This week we are painting a life model again and so we can continue...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Figures and interiors
Last week we saw how we could create a beautiful interior composition with a variety of brushstrokes and a rich pattern and visual...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 17
- 1 min
Today's class cancelled
I'm afraid I have to cancel today's (Friday) class due to losing my voice. it isn't Covid but still makes me unable to give the class...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Statues and busts
The advantages of painting from busts and statues are that they are of a uniform colour and texture and usually photographed to show up...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Painting interiors
This week I've asked you to bring in a photo of a house interior to serve as a starting point for our exploration of visual texture and...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Expressionist figure painting
On Friday we will look at how our painting impacts the audience by the use of colour and design. By the 20th century many painters were...
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sebastianaplin
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Still life composition
The composition of a painting is not only affected by where objects are placed but also by how light falls on them and by the colour of...
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sebastianaplin
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Self portrait
Self portraits are associated with a close observation of the head. Although we may be tempted to anchor our paintings on accurate lines...
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sebastianaplin
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Still life with fruit
Still life painting was often used to show off the artist's mastery of revealing forms from shadows (chiaroscuro) and Caravaggio was the...
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sebastianaplin
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Figure painting
When we paint Barry on Friday we'll take forward the idea of painting positive and negative shapes rather than hands and legs. ...
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sebastianaplin
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Foreground and background
We can apply the idea of positive and negative shapes to still life painting as we look for ways of recreating a sense of depth. Morandi...
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