Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

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...

Painters often feel the objects or people they paint are floating (involuntarily!). In our still life course we will be looking at how...

I'm going to publish a few blog posts before we start the course in order to take you through some of my process when painting a still...

The room is booked and the preparations have started for the new course at Stapleford Granary which will run over November. You can find...

We'll be finishing off this block of classes with a life model painting session using the practice we did to emphasise the structure of...

Because we are so good at recognising small differences between people it is very difficult to bring out the human form convincingly....

On Friday we have the challenge of painting our (clothed) model in the garden in front of the School of Art and Design. Hopefully the...

When we look to incorporate human figures and buildings into our landscapes we worry how recognisable they will be, which is a problem...

We have looked at negative and positive space, foreground and background but only touched on the importance of the background to tell the...

What is attractive about painting a seascape with clouds is that you can paint it in a more expressive way without fear of loosing...

Once we established the concept that the main attribute of a colour is its value, then we were able to push our colours out beyond...

Monet's paintings of Rouen cathedral demonstrate clearly how the colour of objects we perceive is defined by the light shining on them. ...