Duration

 03 - 07 August / 1 week

Monday-Friday 10am – 4.30pm

Course leader 

Kate Hopkins

Level - This course is suitable for varying levels of experience. From beginners to painters with an independent practice. Some previous experience in drawing will be helpful.

Course Description

This course teaches strategies that inform observational painting. It is designed to help you set up and respond in more nuanced ways to a still-life practice, by offering further perceptual insights with the potential for inspiring new ideas.  You will learn: to carefully and effectively observe relationships between objects and the space they occupy; how to use colour to create illusions of light and form - a 'pictorial colour space'; and to consider colour relationships (perceived and on the palette), illusory edges and other phenomena. 

In addition, you will develop your awareness of the surprising issues of our perception of size, shape and colour involved in still life painting. This practical course will reveal unexpected phenomena about how we perceive the world. Through daily practical painting exercises and talks, you will scrutinise scale, shape, tone and colour, and consider painting in the light shed by the psychology and neuroscience of vision. This drawing and painting course is inspired by ‘Eye and Brain’ by Richard L. Gregory, explaining “how we see and what we see, including the strange phenomena of illusions” alongside more recent developments in cognitive neuroscience.

 

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