Learn The Fundamentals: Learning to draw and paint is really more about learning to see. In this 4 hours course I teach you step by step how to break complex subjects down into their basic building blocks when drawing and painting. We will then spend over an hour looking at values and learning to break things around us down using black and white paint. Although I use both traditional and digital medium in the value section of the course, the entire course can be done using traditional paint. A pdf download which includes materials used and assignments is included.

Broken up into Manageable Sections:

Drawing Shapes (16mins 41s): The building blocks of everything around you: We look at what these basic shapes are, the importance of learning how to recognise them in our everyday life as well as in other artist’s work. We then consider how nature is irregular and how these basic shapes are affected by these irregularities. Here we start to think about how to take what we see in our 3D world and create the illusion of form on a 2d surface.

• Drawing Shapes

• Distorting These Basic Shapes

• Forms

Breaking Things Down Into Basic Shapes (18 mins 17s) : We draw from reference and then from observation using what we have learnt previously.

• Breaking Things Down into their Basic Shapes

• Observational Drawing

• Putting It All Together

Values (2 hours 10 mins) : We start painting and looking at how we can simplify all the values we see around us. We will look at how to use photo editing software such as photoshop to help us simplify our values as well as doing studies from old master paintings who have simplified their use of values in their original paintings. We will then look at how to paint using only light and shadows.

• Value Chart

• Learning to Group and Simplify Your Values

• Understanding How Light and Shadow work

Measuring Tools (35mis 16 sec): We will be training our hand and eye to see accurately. We will use the drawing tool as training wheels that will help us get accurate drawing. Once our hand eye coordination get better with more practice we will eventually stop using the drawing tool.

Conclusion (5mins 4sec): To conclude we paint a still life of a pear using only four values.

Learn directly from an artist whose art celebrates vibrancy, confidence and empowerment

Explore how to layer acrylic paint to create depth movement and a vibrant glow that brings your artwork to life.

By the end of this class, you’ll have a completed painting with a set of techniques you can apply to future projects and the confidence to explore your own artistic style.

The course is accredited by Course Accredited Uk and comes with CPD indexed points.

Paint used:

Liquitex heavy body acrylics paints, flurescent ink, calligraphy pen, pastel

inks - I will show you how I move from transparent colours and slowly move into adding opaque colour.

This class is broken down into 4 sections:

Course Title: Painting Loose Abstract Portrait 1 (20 CPD Points)

Section 1: Access to course materials and relevant downloads for the course

Section 2: Let’s Begin! - where we transfer our sketch and begin to put in our expressive underpainting

Section 3: Dry Brushing

Section 4: Final lines

Inaddition to this course there’s also a bonus warm up course (15 CPD points)