Painting from Life: Colour, Form and Expression

About

Fri 24 Apr- 19 Jun (8 wks) | 1.45-40pm | 16+ yrs
Designed for those with life drawing experience, this course develops your skills in painting from a live model using acrylic and/or oil. Through structured exercises, explore paint handling, expressive mark-making, tonal structure, and limited colour palettes to create confident, dynamic figure studies.

What will the course cover and how will it be taught?
This course offers an exciting opportunity for those with some life drawing experience to develop painting skills from a live model, using acrylic and/or oil paints. Through a series of structured exercises, you will explore paint handling, mark-making, tonal development, and the use of limited colour palettes to create dynamic, expressive figure studies.

You will learn to apply measuring skills to your life painting, mix colour and tone with intention, and represent the structure and form of the human figure. The course also emphasises developing personal mark-making techniques and understanding how other artists approach painting the human form, offering inspiration and context for your own work.

Teaching combines practical life painting sessions, live demonstrations, discussions, one-to-one guidance, peer feedback, and analysis of other artists' work. Self-assessment and tutor feedback will help you refine your technique, deepen observation skills, and build confidence in translating life studies into compelling painted compositions.

Important Information
This course will be held in Studio 3. There are no sessions during half term 25-29 May.