Online Figure Drawing Course - Camilla Dixon painting of figure in red

Figure - Colour Blocking for movement + pose (rec)

Drawing / Painting / Figure

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Course details

Practice your life drawing skills in this regular online Life Drawing class. With professional tutors, learn about form, proportion and composition by sketching the clothed figure in a variety of short and long poses.

Camilla Dixon painting of figure in red

Life Drawing, the practice of drawing from a live model, has been practised for hundreds of years as a way to hone one’s technical skills and encourage a deeper understanding of real life subjects. At The St Ives School of Art, we have a long history of running life drawing classes that attracted many young modern artists of the day, including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Terry Frost and Peter Lanyon.

For this session Camilla Dixon will be focusing on colour blocking for movement and pose. Working in acrylic/gouache paint on short poses with a simplified figure, we will be focusing on what is happening within the structure of the pose and the direction of parts of the body, leaving surface detail till last, building rapidly in layers from the inside out.

Broadcast from our studio in St Ives with a clothed professional model, join us from the comfort of your home, for two hours of drawing and painting the figure with guided exercises from our expert tutor. Each session will be run slightly differently depending on the artist leading it and can be watched live or watched later.

These sessions are designed to inspire, instruct and surprise. Suitable for any level of experience, our life drawing sessions serve as a bridge between observation and creative expression, offering a space for both the development of individual skill and personal artistic exploration.

Figure painting by Camilla Dixon
Images from previous Life Drawing Sessions

Who is this course for?

Ideal if you are looking for a new ways to expand your drawing and painting practice. Beginners and those with more experience are both welcome to join. 

What will I learn?

1. Loosen your approach to capturing the human form.

2. Explore new mark-making techniques.

3. See how experimenting with different mediums can free-up your practice.

4. Explore working from both observation and intuition.

How does an online session work?

The recorded session can be watched on demand, as often as you like, for up to 60 days after purchase. This way you can pause a scene, rewind and finish your painting.

You will be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world. You can also share your work live with others on social media using the #schoolofpainting and tagging us @stives painting

You can watch on a PC, laptop or tablet and if you have chromecast or miracast you could even cast to your SmartTV from your phone.

Figure – Colour Blocking for movement and pose (rec)

Drawing / Painting / Figure

Purchase

Taught by

Camilla
Dixon

View Camilla’s Work

I find tutoring to be a constantly evolving project. It supports my creative work as it requires that I not only understand my processes but can apply them in a way that is useful to other people in their quest for creative flow. Harnessing a fluid and responsive working method, can address all sorts of practical or emotional obstacles that students face. It can be quite literally life-changing.

What to Bring

A list of materials will be available to see in your account upon booking.

You will need access to the internet and ideally a PC, laptop or a tablet with audio.

What our students say

Really enjoyed learning about this technique and using colour in this way. I love the online life drawing and figure sessions from St Ives School of Painting and this one was simply a joy. Thank you.

I enjoyed this course, and will use it as a method to draw the figure and other things. It helped me to see pose and volume.

I love your online life classes, so was looking forward to enjoying a new session – and I did!

Lynne

The pace, clarity and inspiration from Camilla. She explained everything wonderfully and her enthusiasm is deliciously contagious.

Lynne

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