Skin deep: the body as a painted landscape
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In London
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Location
London
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Different dates available
This life painting workshop brings together a unique combination of approaches to painting the nude. Firstly it explores the subtle, elusive colours within the skin. Secondly it explores imaginative connections between natural landscape and the surface planes and curvature of the body.
Inspired by artists and photographers working from Nature, you will develop two large paintings from abstracted areas of the body, after carrying out a range of surface-based colour-mixing and layering exercises in oil and acrylic paint.
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About this course
- produce a series of observational studies of torsos in acrylic and oil paint.
- mix colour on the surface with increased sensitivity.
- understand an imaginative connection between the body, landscape and painting within a range of artists’ work.
- paint from life and from observation with greater confidence.
All basic materials are provided for the course. There is a small charge if students wish to use Bockingford paper for their main painting.
If you would like to buy art materials for your personal use outside of the course, City Lit students receive 10% discount off everything* from Cass Art, the UK’s leading art supplies retailer. Your tutor will advise you on what you should buy. You will need to show your enrolment receipt in-store to receive your discount. Visit the Charing Cross shop at 13 Charing Cross Road WC2H 0EP or find your local shop at
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Subjects
- Painting
Course programme
- Observational painting from abstracted areas of the body.
- Colour-mixing on the surface using oil and acrylic techniques.
- Connections between landscape, the body and nature in painting and photography.
- How artists use abstraction and enlargement of natural form in their work.
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Skin deep: the body as a painted landscape