Painting And Personal Inspiration Short Course
Course description
Are you looking to build confidence and refine your painting skills? This course is designed to help you take the next step with confidence in a constructive and inspirational environment.
The course helps you to discover what it is about painting that really excites and inspires you. Maybe you are interested in the language of painting. Maybe certain subjects move you more than others. Whatever it is, this course will take you step by step through an examination of this process of discovery.
Course outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Have explored other artists techniques, approaches and subject matters
- Demonstrate some key painting techniques
- Have developed your confidence and personal style as a painter
Who should attend Painting And Personal Inspiration short course?
The course is suitable for both beginners and more experience learners, or anyone interested in why artists choose particular painting subjects and strategies.
Clear, easy to understand lessons:
- Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean.
- New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way thats crystal clear and easy to understand.
Experience life on campus
- Study at Central Saint Martins, Granary Square a world-famous art and design college
- Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
- Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
- Shop in our college shops for any materials you might need
- Ask questions of your tutor in real time
- Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
- Experience the many sights of London on your down time
A certificate of completion:
- You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
- As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance
- We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
- Certificates are great to complement your CV
IMPORTANT Information: There is currently no lift access at this site. Access to your classroom is only via stairs-
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Topics covered
- The first part of the course provides you with a basic understanding of the language of painting looking at colour, form, space and light.
- We will see how artists have taken each aspect of the language and pushed it to extremes. How is a Fauve painting different from an impressionist painting? How is Lucian Freud different from a Francis Bacon?
- Gradually, we will explore individually motivated projects that might involve: contemporary painting approaches, painting from life, drawings or photographs, or using note-taking, found images or objects.
- Subjects could include: life models, still life, interiors, or a view from a window, the street or the city.
- Optional out of college assignments may also be set.
Materials
Please bring with you to the first session:
- 5 x A1 sheets of White Card (at least 300gsm thick)
- 500ml or 1000ml of White Gesso
- 1 large 2" (50mm) cheap house paint brush from any DIY store
- A mixture of various size nylon/hog hair or similar brushes. (3 should be No.10 Large)
- 1 x pallette knife (medium size) - used for mixing colours
- 2 x 2B + 2 x HB pencils
- Masking tape
- Cotton rags - old T-Shirts or the like
- Colour acrylic and oil paints
- Please only use artist's quality from art supply shops like Atlantis European or CassArts (LIQUTEX/TRI-ART/GOLDEN) for acrylic paints
Basic Colours artists quality: (do not buy student quality paint)
- Cadmium Lemon
- Cadmium YellowCerulean Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Prussian Blue
- Raw Umber
- Cadmium Red
- Alizarin Crimson
- Lamp Black
- Titanium White (Large tube)
Additional Colours Optional
- Viridian
- Magenta
- Yellow Ochre
- Indian Yellow Deep
- French Ultramarine
- Raw Sienna
- Transparent Oxide
For Health and Safety reasons students are not allowed to bring any solvents to the studio. We will provide low-odour mineral spirits.
Any kind of spray products, turpentine or white spirits are banned from the building and the internal courtyard.
Further painting materials will be discussed as the course progresses
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