Life drawing into life painting
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- Course Code: VH449
- Dates: 22/06/24 - 13/07/24
- Time: 10:00 - 17:00
- Taught: Sat, Daytime
- Duration: 4 sessions (over 4 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: susan kenton
Course Code: VH449
Choose a start date
Duration: 4 sessions (over 4 weeks)
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What is the course about?
Examining means and methods of representing the human figure.This will help you develop your understanding of
human structures and form and to build confidence in handling paint in relation to life painting.You will learn to
express an imaginative and personal response to the figure.
What will we cover?
Each session will isolate aspects of life drawing and painting and the means to deal with it:modelling of form;dealing with proportion and scale;issues of the figure in space - perspective and foreshortening;weight in relation to posture;and emotional mood.
You will also develop a suitable, limited palette based on colour bias,appropriate to creating form using various tonal structures.We will consider ways of constructing and organising paint, such as coloured underpainting, layering,'scumbling' and other methods including placement, distortion, balance and rhythm.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- represent the figure effectively in painterly terms
- have an expanded sense of paint handling and technique
- begin to locate areas of personal interest and your own language and style
- produce a series of works that demonstrate sustained investigation.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is open to all levels of drawing experience. All painting techniques, methods of application and means of evaluation will be taught in a structured format, within which you can work at your own level. You will be expected to be able to follow instruction and to take part in group discussions.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will be taught by demonstration, practical application, one to one tuition and group discussion.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
All basic materials are included.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Life painting weekend, Life painting extended study.
Sue Baker Kenton is an artist for whom drawing is pivotal and whose practise engages with the analogue nature and material resistance of traditional print processes in a digital world. Since graduating her MA Printmaking she has received Arts Council funding for individual research into Lithography at the Curwen Print Study Centre and in 2016 she was appointed etching fellow at Royal Academy Schools, Piccadilly, London. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public and private collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, Word & Image department. Sue regularly undertakes research trips and residencies, these inform the sessions she teaches with an ethos of purposeful play and enquiry. Her experience of comparative process and her engagement with contemporary practice brings a dialogue to her teaching that is both specific and collaborative. Sue Baker Kenton teaches primarily on the advanced programme at City Lit and at several specialist printmaking organisations. For more information please visit: www.suebakerkenton.com Instagram: Sue_bkstudio
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
