On this 10 week online course Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination.
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Studio course: Painting Personal Projects: Two terms on Saturdays 22 Apr to 01 July 2023
ESOP’s Painting Personal Projects is a programme that aims is to give you an opportunity to develop your own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists.
Come and learn step by step approaches to oil painting.
Studio course: The Painting Year II Tuesdays 18 April to 27 Jun 2023
The Painting Year II is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters.
Last place available – Advanced Painting Personal Projects is a year long online course one day a week on Mondays 10 -5pm. This course will give you an opportunity to develop your own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists. It is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing new bodies of work culminating in an online exhibition at the end of the year.
In studio: Untutored Life Drawing – 16 Jan to 13 Mar 2023 – Mondays 6.30-8.30pm
Join us for an evening of life drawing working with the model. Each evening will be an opportunity to get together informally to work with an opportunity at the end of the sessions for us to have a look and comment on each other’s work. All are welcome
ONLINE COURSE: Painting People: The Figure and Portrait: 12 Jan to 29 Jun 2023
This course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways.
ONLINE: The Super-power of a Sketch book with Guy Allott: 10 Nov – 15 Dec 2022
The aim of this online course is to generate ideas. All you need is a sketchbook, drawing materials, inks, brushes and an open mind.
This in studio course runs over the course of 4 alternate Sunday mornings. Rosanna will introduce you to the process of glazing in oil painting…
‘Gallery tour and drawing’ with Archie Franks October 20th to December 8th 2022
Thursdays 10.30am to 4.30pm This eight week course aimed at people wanting to engage and learn from the collections in…
Read MoreThe ESOP Advanced Painting Course 2022-24 F/T studio Mon – Wed Tutor time
Applications are now open for the Essential School of Painting’s two year Advanced Painting Course with a full time studio…
‘Art Matters’ Part 1 and 2 – A Review
A review of The Essential School of Painting Shows at the Art Pavilion Mile End Park Art – 23 June to 7 July 2022