From Sketch to Painting - Portraiture

Drawing / Oil / Figure - Materials included

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Course details

Demystify painting and learn the nuts and bolts of studio practice by watching an artist work through a process live online. Join artist Gary Long in our studio where he will share with you the creative journey of creating a portraiture in oils working from a model.

This is the second of our Studio Practice sessions with a focus on the art of creating a portrait from scratch. These practical in depth demos can motivate and inspire you, building confidence in materials and process. Gary’s is broken up into two sessions lasting two hours each. Sharing with you different parts of the process he goes through to take a sketch to a finished portrait in oils. This first of our online sessions is a special edition with our long standing tutor Steve Dove as Gary’s model over the two days.

During the live session, there will be an opportunity for students to pose questions to Gary during the demonstrations. We will have a camera on the model throughout the session so students can also have a go at drawing and painting alongside Gary.

You can watch them live or later as we record them and send you a link. These will be available to view for two weeks after the session.

You will also be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with our community of fellow students from around the world.

Day to day plan

This is a rough indication of what to expect over the two sessions.
NB the course runs from 10am – 12pm over two days. You can join in live or watch later.

Day 1

On Friday Gary will start to draw the model moving into a colour study in Gouache

Day 2

Saturday morning Gary will use his studies as well as working direct from the model and move into using oils.

How Does an online session work?

Once you have booked a session, we will send you a Zoom link so you can join the session live. You don’t need to register with Zoom just follow the link you receive when you book. This link is only valid for the live session the link to the recording is sent later.

You can put questions to the tutor using the question and answer function during the session. We record the sessions so you can watch on demand as often as you like for up to two weeks after. You will also be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world.

From Sketch to Painting – Portraiture

Drawing / Oil / Figure – Materials included

We haven’t scheduled this course yet. Please email us to register your interest for future availability.

Register Interest

What to Bring

You don’t need to bring any materials to the session. This will be a demonstration rather than a tutorial to follow. However you are welcome to join in as you can also see the model.

You can download a materials list here if you would like to join in.

You will need access to the internet and ideally a PC or laptop or a tablet with audio. Phones are not really suitable to watch a webinar on as the presenter will be hard to see when they share their screen with you. But we will be sending you a recording of the session so you can revisit it.

Timings and Breaks

At about 9.45am please follow the link to go to your session’s waiting room. We will play a video with audio of students artwork we have collated so far in response these session. So you can check you are connecting ok.

Any problems either receiving your link or connecting please contact i[email protected] and we will do our best to get that sorted before the start time.

We will start the session at 10.00 am. We expect each of our Studio Practice sessions to last about two hours. In the session please pose questions to the artist using the Q & A function. We will pause for questions at different points during the session.

What our students say

It was really interesting to see how Gary linked his preliminary sketches with painting. I feel I have learned a lot and look forward to ‘attending’ more demonstrations.

Christine Devereux

Brilliant tuition and demonstration from Gary, well done for using this new way of communicating artistic learning and enjoyment.

William Stephens

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