In this course, you'll learn to harness Van Gogh’s techniques, colour palettes, and expressive brushwork.

Through step-by-step guidance and one-on-one support, your instructor will guide you through the painting processes that make Van Gogh’s work unique, breaking these methods down to capture emotion and movement. From bold impasto to delicate hatching, grasp the techniques behind the iconic works of the enigmatic Dutch master. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to channel the unique energy of Van Gogh in your own artwork.

In this exciting workshop, you will explore Jenny Saville’s expressive approach to creating powerful and evocative paintings, charged with daring and energetic mark-making.

Working from a master copy (choose from a selection of high-resolution images), you will create a fully finished portrait painting, learning Saville’s approach step-by-step. 

Learn how to layer natural skin tones alongside high-voltage colour, and expand your vocabulary of mark-making (drips, splats, scrapes & loaded brush marks), while maintaining a sense of harmony and realism.

The instructor will work with you at your own pace, offering technical and creative guidance, along with brief lectures, slideshows and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

Are you ready to bring colour, feeling, and depth into your figure drawings? In this exciting course, you will learn how to play with colour and create convincing skin tones using pastels on mid-toned paper. 

Working from the live model, emphasis will be placed upon creating 3-dimensional form using light and shadow, layering colour, and exploring various techniques in pastel application. Whether focusing on the full figure or portrait, you will learn about gesture, structure, proportion, basic anatomy, value and colour temperature.

Attendees of this course will enjoy a heightened sense of confidence and play with colour in their figure drawings!

Take a deep dive into widening your scope with creative portraiture. Bringing together traditional and contemporary techniques, emphasis will be on achieving a likeness while experimenting with colour, glazing, texture, and mark-making.

In working from professionally shot photo reference, you will bring together naturalistic skin tones with high voltage colour, and develop a series of dynamic paintings.

Justin will work with you at your own pace, offering personalized technical and creative guidance, along with demos, lectures, and slideshow presentations throughout the course.

Are you ready for greater realism, depth and a convincing finish in your paintings? In this course, you will fully develop one figure or portrait painting from start-to-finish, bringing together traditional & contemporary techniques.
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Using direct (wet-into-wet) and indirect painting (glazing) methods, you’ll begin with a loosely drawn underpainting to serve as your guide, find generalized colours for different areas of the figure, and then move towards nuanced form and colour. Basic anatomy, planes of the body, and brushwork will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on capturing the gesture of the model, creating accuracy of form, and mixing nuanced skin tones.
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Choose from our wide selection of professional, well-lit photos to create your own dynamic, gestural and poetic painting! Whether focusing on the whole figure or the portrait, attendees of this course will acquire greater confidence, ease and depth in their paintings.

In this course, you will learn the foundations needed to create oil paintings grounded in good technique. Learn how to prepare surfaces, maintain your brushes, use mediums, handle paint and more!

Students will develop compositions with a strong foundational drawing layer before approaching the painting with an emphasis on value and colour.

This class is perfect for beginners, those switching from acrylics to oils, and experienced painters who want to get back to basics.

In this exciting workshop, you will explore Jenny Saville’s expressive approach to creating powerful and evocative paintings, charged with daring and energetic mark-making.

Working from a master copy (choose from a selection of high-resolution images), you will create a fully finished portrait painting, learning Saville’s approach step-by-step. 

Learn how to layer natural skin tones alongside high-voltage colour, and expand your vocabulary of mark-making (drips, splats, scrapes & loaded brush marks), while maintaining a sense of harmony and realism.

The instructor will work with you at your own pace, offering technical and creative guidance, along with brief lectures, slideshows and demonstrations throughout the weekend.