Workshops

Classes will run from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm with an hour break for lunch.

Portraits in Oil ~ David Goatley

Day 1: The Head Study

Working from a live model I will demonstrate a full-color head study. The students will then make

one of their own.

Day 2: Composition and Pose

We will begin the day talking about composition. I will work with the model to establish a pose and lighting, using my camera equipment as a sketch book to record different poses and lighting, sharing

my thinking as I do so.

Transferring the resulting photographs to a laptop, I will then choose the composition I feel works best, sharing this thought process with the class. We will then make photographs from each student’s point of view so that everyone has an establishing shot of the model to work with.

Days 3-5: Developing the Portrait

We will make a quick black and white value study to pin down our compositions and make decisions

about what to keep from the photographs and what to simplify. We will then draw this composition up

onto a larger support in readiness for spending the remainder of the week completing a full colour

portrait from our sketches, photographs and the live model.



Landscape Painting Workshop ~ Deborah Tilby

Mastering the colours used in representational landscape paintings will be a key focus of this workshop. The course is designed to help you begin to develop or expand your knowledge of colour and colour mixing with exercises covering value, temperature, intensity and more. Each morning a different aspect of colour will be discussed with exercises to illustrate it.

As well as colour, it is important to observe light and know how to treat it within the context of your painting.

Developing an eye for composition and how the placement of elements within a landscape can create

an interesting arrangement of shapes and colours will be discussed.

There will be demos and one-on-one instruction.

Each afternoon students will do a small landscape with the morning exercises in mind. The lessons will include demonstrations of several starting methods and help in choosing subjects. Students will work either from life or photos depending on the weather.

Oil is the preferred medium (using linseed oil, so no scent) though acrylic may be used.