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Now Offered as an Pre-recorded Online Course - Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
A Handful of Objects is designed as a three day course led by Simon Carter, looking at how you can create energetic and inventive compositions based around objects and activity in the studio. There are 3 films, plus a short introductory film, that last for an average of 1 hour. Working in your own studio you collect a group of objects together that you will start making paintings from using direct observation, seeing how inventive you can be while staying true to the familiar objects. You will then look at constructing larger pieces in a process of collaging and building, looking to find big compositions based on still life but with the lyricism and breadth of landscape.
Gather a group of favourite objects: two man-made things, two natural things, two patterned things and reproductions of two favourite paintings. For the first 2 sessions of the course it would be best to work with acrylic paint on paper, painting, collaging, glueing together, building an image. Looking to make something large, dramatic, disruptive and daring. Making paintings from this dymanic collage could be done in oils if you prefer
Start Date | 15-Aug-2022 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | a-handful-of-objects -simon-carter- 2022.pdf |
Now Offered as an Pre-recorded Online Course - Once purchased you have unlimited access to the recordings.
Drawing and painting self-portraits, looking at yourself in the mirror, is a grounding, challenging and invigorating experience. You are in good company as many of the great painters in history made Self Portraits. You are free to invent and take risks, as there is no one to offend or judge the likeness other than yourself. It is a chance to contemplate, scrutenise and explore how to capture more than just a likeness; to convey with feeling the mood of the gaze, to enjoy the sculptural qualities of the subject and materials. During this 3 day course Emily will have a large mirror in her studio so that she can draw and paint herself, live on camera, to demonstrate and also work alongisde you. She will lead you through processes that help you become confident at manipulating the materials so that they become the subject. She will suggest ways of layering marks and shapes taken from observation to help you invent more expressive ways of making the features of the face. A fleeting glance, the tilt of the head, rubbing through, redrawing and editing provide a fertile ground, with its layered materials and moments, to offer you powerful images that hold your gaze.
By the end of the 3 days you will have lots of drawings and painted studies that will be full of good material for many paintings. You will also have begun at least two paintings. Emily will encourage you to continue these paintings after the course has finished.
Artists’ work that might inspire you: Matisse, Picasso, Chantal Joffe, Maggie Hambling, Stephen Chambers (‘The Court of Redonda’ series), , Bonnard self portraits, John Skinner, Frank Auerbach, Katie Sollohub, Francis Bacon, Dennis Creffied, David Bomberg and the Rembrant late paintings.
Start Date | 30-Dec-2022 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £120.00 |
Course Details | Drawing and Painting the Head - Self Portraits pre-recorded online course.pdf |
Course dates: April 9th - 12th 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)
Spring is a magic time of year that moves all too fast as nature wakes up and blooms. Embrace the energy of spring with four days exploring ways of courageously handling luscious paint to create paintings that go beyond safe, traditional flower paintings. The subject is full of colour, texture and sculptural form......a gift for painting. The course will be packed with demonstrations, exercises and finished paintings to take away with you.
Start Date | 09-Apr-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 12-Apr-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £450.00 |
Reference | F/2021/0427/SC |
Course Details | floribunda_spring_2024_April.pdf |
Course dates: April 16th - 19th 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)
Spring is a magic time of year that moves all too fast as nature wakes up and blooms. Embrace the energy of spring with four days exploring ways of courageously handling luscious paint to create paintings that go beyond safe, traditional flower paintings. The subject is full of colour, texture and sculptural form......a gift for painting. The course will be packed with demonstrations, exercises and finished paintings to take away with you.
Start Date | 16-Apr-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 19-Apr-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £450.00 |
Reference | F/2021/0427/SC |
Course Details | floribunda_spring_2024_2_April.pdf |
Course dates: April 23rd - 26th 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)
Suitable for all levels, including beginners.
Inspired by the 'Matisse in his Studio’ exhibition, we will be creating simple still life set ups in the studio, bringing a sense of domestic space, though props, objects, fabrics and furniture. The way objects inhabit a space can be so evocative, suggesting something that has, or is about to happen, a half drunk cup, an open book. Still life has also been used by artists as a simple, manageable subject with which to play with much more universal themes, the play of light on forms, the effect of colour and pattern in a composition.
Start Date | 23-Apr-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 26-Apr-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £400.00 |
Course Details | Simply_Still_Life_April_2024.pdf |