Explore Jenny Saville’s unique approach in creating powerful and evocative paintings, charged with daring and energetic mark-making. Working from a master copy of your choice (choose from a selection of images), you will create a fully finished portrait painting, learning Saville’s approach step-by-step. 
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Learn how to layer natural skin tones with high voltage colour, and expand your vocabulary of mark-making (drips, splats, scrapes, loaded brush, palette knife), while maintaining a sense of harmony and realism.

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

In this exciting workshop, you will learn how to create dynamic cityscapes with accurate perspective, using a variety of mark-making techniques. 
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Working from a Jeremy Mann cityscape, you will explore making a variety of chromatic greys with a limited palette, utilizing colour harmonies and how to achieve subtle colour shifts. Emphasis will be placed upon seeing the big picture, foregoing detail, and focusing on composition and large masses. 
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You will also analyze the works of other famous urban painters to understand their approach in creating masterpieces. In the end, you’ll take home your own masterpiece to hang on your wall. 

In this course, you will draw from the live model exploring traditional and contemporary techniques in mastering both short and long drawings.
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Each class begins with a focus on fast gesture drawings, line-of-action, simplified shapes, and spontaneous mark making to capture the essence of the pose. As the poses lengthen, emphasis shifts toward solidifying structure and proportion with techniques in sighting & measuring, planar construction, and volume. In the final ‘long pose’ of each class, you will work on mid-tone paper focusing on the subtle nuances of light and shade, to create a 3-dimensional, dynamic, and realistic figure drawing.
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Using the drawing mediums of your choice, you will enjoy heightened confidence, ease, and flow in your figure drawing.

In this course, you will learn how to paint realistic and vibrant portraits from the ground up! Develop your skills in mixing life-like skin tones, creating glowing light effects, and achieving accurate proportions of the face.
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You’ll begin by learning how to draw the head with a brush, using a variety of measuring techniques, then moving on to simple methods for painting shadows, half tones and light. Emphasis will be placed upon accuracy, and capturing the subtle nuances of skin by adjusting colour, edges, value and temperature.
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Upon completion of the course, you will take home a wide range of new skills and a heightened confidence in portrait painting.

In this course, you will learn the foundations you need to create acrylic paintings grounded in good technique. Discover how to prepare surfaces, maintain your brushes, use mediums, handle paint and more.
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Students will develop compositions with a strong foundational drawing layer before approaching the painting with an emphasis on value and colour. You will work both from photo reference and from life — starting by painting simple forms and progressing to a still life setup.
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This class is perfect for beginners, or experienced acrylic painters who want to get back to basics.

Whether you are a beginner or professional artist, mastery of the fundamentals is a lifelong pursuit. In this course, you will learn how to create convincing realism in charcoal, step-by-step.
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Whether working from simple objects, still life arrangements, photo references, or the live figure, emphasis will be placed upon solidifying structure and proportion, achieving a likeness, and utilizing shading techniques to create convincing, 3-dimensional drawings.
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The instructor will demonstrate techniques throughout each class, then spend plenty of time with each student one-on-one. Attendees of this course will be able to confidently take on any subject matter with their new set of skills.

In this exciting course, you will learn how to create dynamic, bold and expressive portrait paintings with powerful presence, exciting brushwork, and original colour.

Bringing together traditional techniques in realism with contemporary techniques in abstraction, emphasis will be placed upon creative experimentation with colour, composition, glazing, texture, and mark-making.

The live model will hold one sustained pose all weekend, allowing for greater focus on form, light and skin tones.

Bite-sized creative exercises are designed to stimulate your imagination and intuitive powers, opening the door to a whole new way of painting.

In this exciting workshop, we will practice looser approaches to representational work. You will build both your skills and relationship to paint as you try free and energetic approaches.
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Rather than working within pre-constructed guidelines, you will use your brushstrokes to gradually expose the image. Exercises will help you to loosen up and paint at a faster pace, valuing exploration and practice above tight representation.
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With a mix of fluid brushwork and selective sharp detail, you will create a painting that reveals your subject, while retaining a sense of mystery, emotion and energy.
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Reference images provided, or you may bring your own.

Explore Jenny Saville’s unique approach in creating powerful and evocative paintings, charged with daring and energetic mark-making. Working from a master copy of your choice (choose from a selection of images), you will create a fully finished portrait painting, learning Saville’s approach step-by-step. 
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Learn how to layer natural skin tones with high voltage colour, and expand your vocabulary of mark-making (drips, splats, scrapes, loaded brush, palette knife), while maintaining a sense of harmony and realism.

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

In this exciting weekend workshop, take your flower paintings to the next level with a fast, fun and creative approach.

You will create several smaller floral paintings with a focus on colour and impressionistic brushwork. Learn to capture the effects of light on flowers with bravura brushwork, and how to incorporate abstract and expressionistic elements into your work. You will also analyze the works of famous floral painters to understand their approach in creating masterpieces. 

Each class is supplemented with instructor demonstrations, slide show presentations, and one-on-one feedback. In the end, you’ll develop new creative methods for flower painting, and complete several small paintings to hang on your wall.

Are you ready to loosen up and get more creative with your figure drawings?

This exciting course brings an outside-the-box approach into figure drawing, as you experiment with mark making techniques using various drawing media. In working from the live model all weekend, exercises are designed to stimulate your imagination and yield surprising results. 
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The instructor will guide you along step-by-step, showing you how to integrate techniques with coloured pastel (skin tones & abstract backgrounds), charcoal (expressive line & shading), and ink (calligraphic brushwork), all in one drawing!

Attendees of this course will experience a sense of play, discovery, and creative flow in their work.