Sebastian Aplin
Painting courses
Foundation workshops
Tuesdays 10th and 17th of June 2025. 10 to 12:30
£60
Charcoal sketching is the most efficient means of developing an ability to outline and simplify forms, model with light and dark and develop a sense of dramatic composition, and as such is often considered to be the basis of painting. All that with just 3 things; a stick of charcoal, a rubber and some paper! We will do several exercises to develop your observation skills that will serve you in good standing for any future drawing or painting you undertake.
Wednesdays 11th and 18th of June
£60
Due to their quick drying and opaque covering qualities acrylics allow the painter to develop an intuitive sense of the negative image since forms can be lightened or darkened in hue at the stroke of a brush. Straddling aspects of oil and watercolour painting, it is excellent for quick sketches that can be worked and reworked easily and spontaneously.
Tuesdays 24th of June and 1st of July
£60
Oils are often considered to give you the richest colours because of their natural sheen and have been the means of expression of centuries of artists who have developed painting techniques in this medium. Once you have the practice of working with oil-based materials you will see how satisfying using oils can be because of the way brushstrokes can blend and colour mix on the palette and the painting surface.
Watercolour painting, foundation
Wednesdays 25th of June and 2nd of July
£60
Watercolours offer a spontaneous expressive richness due to the dynamic way pigments react with water and the paper it soaks into. It has historically been used for outdoor sketching, due to its ease of transport but also because it can define architecture and natural environments efficiently. In contemporary painting its organic nature has been used as a counterpoint to more precise realism