Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

I hope David likes them...

I've been thinking along the lines of interior colour schemes that interior designers would use but was finding it hard to find suitable...

Well, you get the idea...

Moving on from the pointillistes (funny how Google chose a Seurat for its doodle yesterday!) we encounter the "Nabis" group of painters...

There's going to be a fair amount of colour theory tomorrow but these are the jpegs of what I'll be painting tomorrow am... and pm... I...

Some of the main ideas behind Impressionism were condensed into the "pointillist" technique of painters such as Seurat and Signac. The...

I was remembering the great swathes of lupins covering old lava flows in Iceland. I think I caught some of the vibrancy of colour. The...

First two - I went astray with the daffodils; my yellow had other colours remaining, so I never got that real vibrancy.

I was pleased with this one; I find doing negative spaces very difficult, and this one seemed to work.

Theses are from yesterday's class. I think structure defeated expression but I enjoyed the challenge. Next week I wanted to look at...

Just made these up, imagining some summer bedding plants.

2-3 layers tried for flowers - I really like the violet one.

Have you picked you flowers yet (for painting tomorrow). Is it going to be all about colour or are you going for a sculptural quality? ...

You can either look for photo references or make up your own Nolde inspired flowers. The idea is to maximise the watercolour effect...

I really enjoyed the challenge of painting the models more freely yesterday, trying to use colour to create a mood The combination of...