Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

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...

On Thursday we are going to look at how to model the human body in preparation for our life model sessions after that. We've looked at...

This would be useful for next week, when we come to paint our model, as it speeds up the process of blocking in forms. You can prepare...

I'm afraid I'm testing positive for covid at the moment and so won't be able to give tomorrow's class. You will get an e mail from coas...

Often painters use terms like sculpting or modelling forms as if they were working on solid blocks of stone. The light falling on a...

Welcome to the COAS summer term painting course and hello to other blog followers and fellow painting nerds. We're kicking off with two...

For the new term on the painting course at COAS I'm asking everybody to create and bring with them a sketchbook (I suggest A4) to support...

I've been out looking for inspiration for the watercolour workshop and found plenty the other day around Waterloo Gardens. The problem...

This will stop your paper cockling when wet, although some people don't mind a bit of undulation on the surface. 1. Leave your paper to...

I'm running a watercolour workshop at Oriel Canfas on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th of May. For those of you that don't know it, it is...

Members of the group were saying that the course starting in May had already filled up. I've now been told that this is not the case, so...

Thank you to the Monday and Thursday groups for accompanying me on this exploration of painting, I hope some of the fascination I have on...