Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses

My warm-up pots

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...

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...

Messing about with form. Some practice for Wednesday.

It was fun and frustrating playing around with the bobbly cup. Some of those, I'm quite pleased with.

Feel free to publish any sketches before our class on the 3rd.

Modelling form in watercolour must be the most fascinating enterprise ever. It is a conversation on paper between one colour and another...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Try your hand at this amazing estate in Montreal, built in the 60s.

I tried this today to loosen up a bit. With architecture and vegetation in mind I tried to think of a game that would give me a starting...

Next week we'll be looking at the relationship between vegetation and man made structures, two different types of logic. Choose one of...

You can now post your paintings on the blog if you wish. Here are mine from yesterday. The watercolour classes revolve around the idea of...

I really enjoyed last night; hopefully I'm attaching my painting. I like the skull, but I messed up and overworked the face and hands.

I had a go this morning using some of the pictures. I'm particularly interested in how figures merge into each other and the background....

Your homework this week is to create a series of vignettes for your Wednesday painting something like the one below by Belgian...