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Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses
sebastianaplin
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
H/W
I've just had a go making some faces. Try really wetting the paper and then dropping some watercolour in, it's fun. it forces you to...
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sebastianaplin
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
Watercolour portraits class on the 17th of November
Following on from our experience with the Cozens' blots we're going to try our hand at Marlene Dumas portraits. Before you start...
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sebastianaplin
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Distance (H/W for Wednesday)
I visited Porthkerry Viaduct over the weekend and immediately thought of Cotman's painting Your homework is to bring out the sense of...
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- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
Blotch landscape
I suspect you need to use india ink for this, to get the proper darks.
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sebastianaplin
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Wednesday 10th of November
Next week we will be painting a landscape with an emphasis on composition. You can find an image to work from or you can make up your...
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sebastianaplin
- Nov 2, 2021
- 1 min
Practicing forms
I had a go at some of the little boxes and also some less constrained watercolour forms. I'm looking forward to the challenge of...
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annthomas2000
- Nov 1, 2021
- 1 min
Forms
Messing about with form. Some practice for Wednesday.
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- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
Messing around with form
It was fun and frustrating playing around with the bobbly cup. Some of those, I'm quite pleased with.
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sebastianaplin
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
Building up form
Feel free to publish any sketches before our class on the 3rd.
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sebastianaplin
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
Wednesday 3rd of November (including H/W)
Modelling form in watercolour must be the most fascinating enterprise ever. It is a conversation on paper between one colour and another...
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sebastianaplin
- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
Watercolour woes
I look at amazing watercolours every day and marvel at them. Every time I'm struck by the simple idea that is at the core of each one...
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sebastianaplin
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Yesterday's classes (Wed 27th)
Quite a challenge to put into practice the visual ideas around distance, but I think it is useful to move from focused warm ups to a more...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Buildings&Foliage
The homework - I worked over it with a fineliner after putting in loose foliage, too cotton-candy. I like the idea of very loose natural...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
4 loosening-up sketches
I'll say nothing of the Doig inspired one, or the one beneath, which received a spill of water accidentally. The bottom left - I can see...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Jetson House
This put me so much in mind of the Jetsons... I particularly like the foliage upper left - I wouldn't mind a session on brush strokes....
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