Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

Still life painting was often used to show off the artist's mastery of revealing forms from shadows (chiaroscuro) and Caravaggio was the...

When we paint Barry on Friday we'll take forward the idea of painting positive and negative shapes rather than hands and legs. ...

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...

Just thought I'd add another hat (helmet) pose, this one by Velazquez. Thank you all for your feedback sheets. I was wondering if you...

There are many famous portraits of people wearing hats such as this one by Vermeer They provide great shadows across the face and are...

Next Thursday we are going to move away from painting the whole figure to choosing an interesting form to paint from our life model. The...

On Thursday we are going to focus on a trying to achieve a silhouette of Kate which will make us concentrate on the negative image, like...

To prepare for our sessions with the life model from Thursday week onwards, I'd like to spend next session practicing how to model the...

I was asked to clarify what you had to bring in for Thursday. The most important thing is to bring one or more image you would like to...

The Nabis painters such as Vuillard and Bonnard painted interiors full of vibrant colour and pattern. Much more emphasis was placed on...

For Thursday I asked you to bring in All Saints/Halloween objects such as candles, flowers, pumpkins or other related objects and wanted...

Next Thursday please remember to bring in some kitchen ware (utensil/dish/appliance) to serve as a still life model. I've been having a...

Please remember to find out what this term means and how it affects painting so that we can begin next class with a brief discussion on...

Whether you are using oils or acrylics you can start with a few basic colours. A palette that would give you a nice broad range of...

Hello and welcome to the autumn painting course. If its your first time on this blog don't forget to subscribe to that you will be...

On Thursday we're going to learn from the best! (or one of them) and try our hand at forging one of Rembrandt's figure paintings. By...

This Thursday we are going to paint our life model in one pose rather than doing several. That means we can paint a bit bigger to build...

Up to now we've reduced our palette in order to simplify the effect of "blocking in " dark, mid tone and light areas. When we try to add...

We'll follow the format of last session and complete 3 quite rapid figure studies of about 30 minutes each. For those of you who were...