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About this Event
Each week you will be exploring and experimenting with acrylic paint, this will include: composition, staining, and dragging paint, pattern and shape, simplifying and optical effects
You will be encouraged to use a sketchbook at home and in your own time to record notes, sketches, colours and ideas in preparation for your classes.
You will be learning about the work of contemporary painters to inspire and enrich your own explorations and discoveries.
Claire will provide exercises, demonstrations, inspiration and subject matter for this course.
Monday 13 January
Francis Bacon - Portraits
Monday 27 January
Surrealism Collage - Johanna Goodman & Hannah Hock
Monday 3 February
Edvard Munch / Tracey Emin - emotion in figures
Monday 10 February
Klimt - Colour & pattern
HALF TERM BREAK
Monday 24 February
Peter Doig - Figure in the landscape
Monday 3 March
Van Gogh - Self portrait
By the end of the 6 sessions you will have a sketchbook bursting with ideas, have made many experimental paintings and will feel more confident and knowledgable about contemporary portrait & figure painting.
All 6 sessions for £199, no refunds for missed classes
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Claire Chandler Art Studio, 133A Stanley Park Road, Carshalton, United Kingdom
GBP 199.00