Figure painting in oils – Spring 2017

A bit late bringing this post to you – these portraits were painted in lessons during January and the beginning of February. We took our time over these paintings; once we’d sketched the image onto tracing paper using the grid method, we transferred it to our canvas. Some folks had prepared a plain canvas with…

For the next 4 weeks we’re going to be painting quickly – getting used to the feel of the paint, enjoying colour, not taking ourselves too seriously and seeing what we can produce. It’s often surprising what you end up with if you choose to paint quickly – some will work out, some won’t. Those…

After a week of portraits, some students fancied trying a still life subject so we chose Cezanne as a reference for his bold colours and brushwork. These were painted in a similar manner to the portraits – in oils, around an hour per painting. I think they’ve come up with some great paintings. These little…

What a lovely day I had with the artists from South Muskham art group. We painted a portrait in oils – starting with preparing an acrylic background on our canvas, learning a method for gridding to get our image in proportion before transferring to the canvas. We then had fun painting with oils. The subject…

Hats off to everyone with these studies in acrylics – not only were folks very restrained and resisted the temptation to eat the still life in front of them, they also did a fantastic job at a deceptively tricky subject. Painting cakes is harder than you think – have a go and post your results…