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Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses
Community Day
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Community day at Cardiff School of Art and Design where COAS have organised various workshops around the end of year...
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Jun 10, 20231 min read
Self portrait
On Friday 9th of June I hope you will bring in a self portrait, either printed or on your phone, or even just a mirror for any brave...
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May 31, 20231 min read
Resource images
After we get back from our break I hope you will bring an image to work from where you can try out some of the mechanisms for conveying...
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May 31, 20231 min read
Simplifying the life model painting
Last Friday we looked at the technique of simplifying a face into its simplest forms fist by blocking in dark and light and then maybe...
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May 22, 20231 min read
Distance in landscape painting
This Thursday we're going to explore the mechanisms around giving the illusion of looking into the distance, which isn't always easy when...
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May 22, 20231 min read
Visual texture and colour mixing
Next Friday is our theory and practice session where we'll look at strategies for making our painting even more appealing, from the...
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May 14, 20231 min read
Landscape resource image
I asked you to take some photos that you could print out for Thursday. The main ideas is to think about contrasting forms that would...
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May 14, 20231 min read
The Thinker
t was lovely to meet you / see you again at our first class yesterday. I was impressed to how readily you took to the concept of...
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May 6, 20231 min read
Trees and buildings
It was lovely to meet you all yesterday and thanks to those who have already subscribed to the blog! As I mentioned in the class, I hope...
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May 5, 20232 min read
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 27, 20231 min read
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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Mar 20, 20231 min read
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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Mar 20, 20231 min read
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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Mar 13, 20231 min read
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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Mar 13, 20231 min read
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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Mar 6, 20231 min read
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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Mar 6, 20231 min read
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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Feb 27, 20231 min read
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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Feb 27, 20231 min read
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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Feb 20, 20231 min read
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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Feb 20, 20231 min read
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