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Art Classes |
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| Jim teaches art
classes to small groups as well as private
sessions. Details of upcoming classes are listed
below. |
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| Expressive Portrait
Painting with Life Model
workshop |
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| Medium: Oils and Acrylics |
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| Skill Level: Beginning
to Advanced |
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| Cost: $100
(+model fee, max $10) |
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| Duration: 10:00am
- 4:00pm (lunch 12:00
am - 1:00 pm) |
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| Starting: October
28th 2023 |
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| Location: Suntan
Art Center(Map) |
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| Summary: |
The workshop will teach how
to use tools and techniques
to enable you to paint expressive
portraits. By the end of the
worksop, you will have painted
a portrait from a life model.
You will learn how to observe,
measure and use paint in order
to bring the composition to
life. You can paint in either
oil or acrylic, as long as
you are familiar with the medium. Prior experience
of portrait painting is welcomed
but not a pre-requisite.
You will learn:
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| • The basic proportions of the head |
| • How to use comparative method
to capture an accurate likeness of the sitter |
| • How to use a limited palette
of colors |
| • How to handle paint and
edge control |
| • How to use color and value
to create a convincing impression of light |
| • Technical information regarding
materials |
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Each class is limited to 8 students
in order to allow the tutor to individually guide and support each
student throughout the process.
View Work and
Feedback of artists that participated in the course.
For more information on the
course you can contact Jim. |
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| Expressive Painting with Still
Life |
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| Medium: Oils and Acrylics |
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| Skill Level: Beginning
to Intermediate |
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| Cost: |
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| Duration: 6
weeks, one weekly 2.5
hours session, TBD |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Location: TBD |
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| Summary: |
This course will teach you how to use tools and techniques to enable
you to paint expressive painting using Oils or Acrylics. During the
six (6) week course you will complete at least two paintings. Working
with the same “Still Life” over three weeks, you will learn
how to paint from observation, measure, and use paint to bring the
composition to life.
Whilst we use the genre of “Still Life”,
the techniques and methods learned can be used for other genres such
as portraiture, landscapes, and figurative.
Students will learn:
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| • How
to use comparative method to capture the composition |
| • How to use a limited palette
of colors |
| • How to handle paint and
edge control |
| • How to use color and value
to create a convincing impression of light |
| • Technical information regarding
materials |
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Students should have a basic understanding
of painting techniques, as well as some practical
experience, and should be prepared to use an easel either standing
or sitting down.
Prior experience of painting “still life” is welcomed
but not a pre-requisite.
View Work and
Feedback of artists that participated in the course.
For more information on
the course you can contact Jim.
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| Portrait Painting from Photographs |
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| Medium: Oils
and Acrylics |
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| Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced |
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| Cost: |
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| Duration: 6
weeks, one weekly 2.5 hours
session |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Location: TBD |
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| Summary: |
This painting course will teach you tools and
techniques to enable you to paint a portrait
from reference photographs. It is a 6 weeks
course and at the end of the 6 weeks you will
have completed at least one painting. You will
learn how to observe, measure and mix paint in order
to bring the composition to life.
Students will learn:
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| • How
to mix a certain color from primary colors and
develop a color wheel |
| • Difference
between warm and cold colors |
| • How to work with values |
| • How
to enlarge/transpose/copy a picture to a canvas |
| • How
to interpret the light and dark areas of the photographs to values. |
| • How to handle paint and
edge control |
| • How
to use color and value to create a convincing
impression of light |
| • Technical
information regarding materialss |
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For more information on the
course you can contact Jim. |
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| Expressive Portrait Painting |
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| Medium: Oils and Acrylics |
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| Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced |
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| Cost: |
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| Duration: 6
weeks, one weekly 3.0 hours session, 12:00
pm to 15:00 pm |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Location: TBD |
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| Summary: |
The course will teach how to use tools
and techniques to enable students to paint
expressive portraits. Working with a life model,
students will learn how to observe, measure
and use paint in order to bring the composition
to life.
Students will learn:
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| • The basic proportions of the head |
| • How to use comparative method
to capture an accurate likeness of the sitter |
| • How to use a limited palette
of colors |
| • How to handle paint and
edge control |
| • How to use color and value
to create a convincing impression of light |
| • Technical information regarding
materials |
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Each class is limited to 8 students
in order to allow the tutor to individually guide and support each
student throughout the process.
View Work and
Feedback of artists that participated in the course.
For more information on the
course you can contact Jim. |
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| Expressive Figurative Painting |
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| Medium: Oils |
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| Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced |
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| Cost: TBD |
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| Duration: TBD |
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| Starting: TBD |
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| Location: TBD |
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| Summary: |
We will explore the use of
classic and contemporary applications of
impasto to create expressive figurative compositions.
Working from pictures and/or photographs
you will learn how to develop a composition
on a chosen subject, how to transfer the essence
of the composition to a painting surface
and how to use different impasto techniques
to bring the composition to life. We will work
with large brushes, palette knifes, masking
tape and other tools to develop the painting.
Students will learn composition, texture, tonal
value, colour management, colour temperature, lost and found, etc.
Each student will work from their own reference material but will be
individually guided and supported by the tutor throughout the process.
Upon completion of the course students should be able to loosen up their style
which will enable them to more easily capture the essence of a composition rather than be bound to its representational form.
For more information on the course you can contact Jim.
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