About this Event
Day: Wednesdays
Dates: 9 October 2024 – 4 December 2024
1 x week break for Half Term – Wednesday 30 October
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Level: Intermediate (18+)
Tutor: Serena Rowe
Location: 124 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4DJ
Cost: £380 / Early Bird rate: £340
COURSE OVERVIEW
By its very nature, a Still Life is temporary which lends it a feeling of urgency, but how to capture this moment in paint?
Working from a new still life each week and through various drawing and painting exercises, this course will help you to cease describing things in paint and to start expressing them.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
‘For our time is the passing of a shadow
And our lives will run like
Sparks through the stubble’
From Derek Jarman’s film Blue
Still Life painting is not a cold collection of inanimate objects, but if approached in the right way, can become a portal for the artist to express feelings, memory and hidden thoughts.
Each week a text, image or piece of music will provide inspiration for the evening’s work ahead. It could be a passage from Derek Jarman’s book ‘Modern Nature’ to Manet’s last small floral paintings to Joan Mitchell’s expressive abstract works.
During the course, your observational drawing skills will improve and as a consequence you will feel more comfortable to take risks in your mark making.
You will learn to take time to mix your colours before painting so you are then free to react quickly and instinctively to what is in front of you.
By the end of the course, you will have expanded your painterly language and have deepened your technical understanding of oil paint.
You will leave with an armful of expressive drawings and paintings and a head full of inspiration!
Serena has 30 years of experience painting with oils and is an encouraging and approachable tutor. She has had a wide range of education from atelier style training in Italy to a Postgraduate Masters in Drawing from the Royal Drawing School.
This course is not suitable for absolute beginners.
What is included: Essential and specialist quantities of materials which will be demonstrated and worked with are included.
What isn’t included: Please bring 2x large, 2x medium and 2x small hog hair brushes, a glass jar, and a wooden palette. Please also bring your sketchbook, and wear clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.
10% discount available for City & Guilds of London Art School undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation students and alumni, and staff. Contact to receive the discount code.
Participants must be aged over 18.
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