Course details
Explore the possibilities of abstraction drawing inspiration from your direct surroundings. Experiment with new ways of working from figuration to abstraction.
Suitable for anyone who is looking to shift from purely representational expression to something more individual. This online recording uses the different ‘backdrops’ around us – landscape, interior, figure or still-life – to help you find your own visual vocabulary.
Starting with different approaches to line drawing, Camilla takes you through simple exercises, encouraging you to pull-out the abstract elements of a scene. Rather than attempting to ‘represent’ your chosen object or scene, Camilla encourages you to see these afresh, helping to direct the eye more keenly and truly.
Ideal if you are looking for drawing as a way to concentrate and relax as well as to ‘get in the zone’, but also useful for anyone starting a project from scratch or a total beginner. Camilla shows you how to use drawing as as a starting point, or way in, to creating a larger more complex painting, collage, relief, sculpture or installation. Through a process of selection, editing, enlarging, layering and repeating, find new ways-in to creating paintings from objects, landscapes and figures. Above all, this will be an opportunity to have fun and to experiment!
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for both absolute beginners and those with more experience, looking to build confidence in new ways of working. Aimed to help you step out of your comfort zone and loosen your approach to drawing and painting.
What will I learn?
1. Build confidence working from figuration to abstraction.
2. Use drawing as a way to relax.
3. Find new ways into abstraction.
4. See how to develop new artworks in a range of mediums from experimental drawings.
5. Take inspiration from a variety of objects, settings and ideas.
How does an online session work?
Once you have booked you will be able to watch on demand immediately.
You can pause, rewind and watch again as often as you like until the session expires 60 days after purchase
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 on social media using the #schoolofpainting
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.
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What our students say
As a practicing artist the course allowed time for experimentation in new materials with a focus on the development of ideas & concepts. The guidance from Camilla throughout the course was encouraging and valuable. Camilla covered every aspect and talked about any related subjects in an inspiring and open manner. It was a very inspiring and well-structured course.
Camilla presented what could, certainly for me, have seemed daunting work practices in a very relaxed manner, accommodating the varied needs and experience of the student group. Camilla seemed to keep the plates spinning for the full three days. This was the first course I’ve done at the School of Painting. It won’t be the last.
Camilla’s teaching style enabled us all to be released into understanding the process and possibilities within abstraction and how we could explore this through distilling our observations and approaches to mark making. I felt encouraged and supported during the three days, which affirmed me and boosted my sense of self as a creative person. It was a great boost to my confidence, and I am most grateful!
Freedom to progress our work was the emphasis, not in making a finished piece, there were no rights or wrongs. Camilla was very generous in her interactions with each student and gave us each affirmation. The team were all very supportive and helpful. Thank you!
Great tutor, great team, great space. What more could one ask for.
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