Drawing into Painting – Still Life and Interiors
Two Day Practical Class
Saturday 7 March - Sunday 8 March 2015
Learning Studio, Burlington House, Royal Academy
£280
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During this in-depth, two-day practical workshop, participants will explore the subject of still life and interiors, beginning with observational drawings and moving to the possibilities of semi-abstraction in paint. You will examine space, rhythm, composition and colour theory, and artist David Webb will encourage you to respond in experimental and imaginative ways.
10.30am – 4.30pm each day.
The first day will consist of making observational drawings from the numerous still life arrangements around the room, as well as the interior of the room itself. These drawings will be in both monochrome and colour, and will include longer, more resolved, finished drawing as well as quick studies, intended to gather specific information about the objects using preparatory skills, such as colour notation.
On the second day, the objects will be removed, and participants will develop a painting, or series of paintings, using their drawings only. Participants may decide to use one drawing primarily for their composition, or several, to make a new and expressive arrangement. During the day participants will invent and discover new ways of working in paint, respond personally and intuitively to their own drawings, and go on to make exciting and imaginative paintings.
Throughout the course, participants’ work will be situated in an art historical context, through looking at and discussing contemporary still life paintings.
David Webb has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions in London, the UK and internationally. He was one of the Jerwood Contemporary Painters award winners in 2009 and has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony in the USA. David has taught at Hull and Leeds University, The Blackheath Conservatoire and for the Royal Academy of Arts.
Art materials, tea and coffee and lunches will be provided.