Duration 

11– 15 August / 1 week

Monday - Friday 10am – 4.30pm

Course leader(s) 

Ian Rowlands

Level - Varying levels of experience

Course Description

In this course you will develop your ability to represent the human head and build a body of work around this single subject. The emphasis is on developing your drawing and painting skills through a practical approach to the study of portraiture.

Initially you will focus on investigative and analytical studies working directly from the model, firstly through linear drawing and measurement, as well as tonal studies. You will then move onto approaches that allow for more expressive potential. You will explore colour and its interaction and relativity, as well as its role in the articulation of space and form.

These structured, developmental studies will lead into a final three days of sustained painting. You will be supported through individual tuition, informal discussion, slide talks and group critiques. The course will conclude with a final group critique, during which the group's work will be discussed.

 

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