Duration

18 - 29 August 2025/ 2 weeks

Monday-Friday 10am – 4.30pm

Course leader 

Andy Pankhurst

Level - Varying levels of experience. From beginners to painters with an independent practice, but some previous experience in drawing will be helpful. 

Course Description

This two-week course will give you the opportunity to work directly from a life-model for two weeks. You will explore working ideas of initial compositional drawings and colour studies together with the nature of painting from sustained observation and concepts connected to it.

 

The course will begin with an initial introductory slide talk with the first two days focussing upon drawing aspects such as: proportion, tone, temperature and composition. The remaining time of the first week will be a combination of quick day and two day colour studies and paintings from the life-model.

 

Our second week will be working from the life-model in a sustained pose for the whole duration of that week utilising lessons and concepts learnt. Working collaboratively together with the model through a creative process we will explore varying possibilities of poses, compositions and colour environments which sets the models pose and set-up for the week as a group, including participants working spaces.  

One to one tuition will be offered on the experience of a sustained visual exchange: perceptual shifts taking place between the artist & subject, colour mixing, tone & temperature, form and the role of structure in terms of proportion and spatial relationships. 

Essentially studio time working from the model will be interspersed with demonstrations, discussions and slide talks including, and not limited to, colour theory, perception and colour mixing. 

The final session of the two weeks will be devoted to feedback and support for continuing after the course finishes. 

 

Please Read Slade’s Terms & Conditions: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/summer-school/short-courses/#general-information