Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

Painting by Wayne Thiebaud. When I paint something beautiful I am trying to capture that sense of wonder at the beauty I see. If I paint a landscape my painting has to convert that beauty into another material; from light, wind, scents, distance and so many things into a pigment suspended in some medium that will reflect light when placed on a flat surface. Creating the illusions of depth, distance and mood help, and composition conjures up mysterious feelings that we can’t q

Last class we were looking at contemporary still life examples such as these by Andy Warhol and Michael Craig Martin. We used more impacting commercial advertising techniques such as clear outlines and bold backgrounds to redefine our concept of painting a still life. This week our focus turns to office stationery, which has a different aesthetic to the big trainer brands. I'm very much enjoying the challenge of using such an old medium such as paint to portray contemporar

For the Autumm still life course I'm hoping to generate some ideas around subject matter, so this will be where you will be able to post an image that you are thinking of using as a still life reference. You can also post any "Work in Progress" images of your painting to serve as a discussion starting point and group feedback for your work. Course members should have received an invite to become "Blog writers" and so should be able to post and comment on the blog. Please let