The London School of Painting and Drawing offers one drawing class per week. The venue at the Maria Assumpta Centre is warm and friendly and as a result the atmosphere in the class is always relaxed and creative.
Each Tuesday Tom Davies and Andy Pankhurst set up various poses with one to three models with the focus on composition, line, colour, etc. Each course begins with a basic introduction to drawing, setting you up to achieve a level of drawing from the life model. Whatever your level the class will offer new challenges and really make an improvement to your work.
The London School of Painting and Drawing offers one Saturday painting class per month. The venue at the Maria Assumpta Centre is warm and friendly and as a result the atmosphere in the class is always relaxed and creative.
Our painting classes are now growing in demand with every year as our students are gaining confidence with the working of colour.
Just like the drawing classes on Tuesday evenings, each new painting day offers different models, different poses and lighting and, most importantly, a different focus - aimed at exploring ideas and observation. The classes are open to students of all levels, are friendly and relaxed and with two tutors permanently on hand to offer advice and support everybody will find an atmosphere designed to be positive and creative.
Materials: Basic materials are provided, including: easels, palettes, drawing boards, drawing paper, pencils, charcoal, white spirit, jam jars and brushes. However, we do advise you to bring along your own brushes if you have any.
We also provide a limited number of canvasses in a variety of sizes for sale. It is important that you bring with you all the materials that you will need.
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WELCOME TO THE LONDON SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND DRAWING
The London School of Painting and Drawing is a venture set up in 2002 by experienced artists and acclaimed tutors from the Royal Society of British Sculptors and the Slade School of Fine Art.
Students will be encouraged to develop ways of representation through the imaginative response to the observed world. Classes will explore various aspects of proportion and scale, composition, space, light and form.
The London School of Painting and Drawing is unique in not having a 'house style' but instead offers you the rare opportunity of working directly from the model aided by careful, individual tuition designed to encourage and develop your own individual creativity.
All levels of experience welcomed.
LSPD, a School set up by Artists for Artists like you.
Summer School: Monday 15 to Friday 19 July
Fees: £299 if payment is made by the 31 May 2013, thereafter £349
Places are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment!
Saturday Painting Class:
'Picasso & the Ice Age'
(18 May, 10am-5pm)
"The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altamira!" Pablo Picasso.
We shall begin our painting & drawing day as normal with a slide talk by both Andy & Tom relating to two beautiful exhibitions coming to a close shortly 'Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901' until 26 May at the Courtauld Gallery, London & 'Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind' also until 26 May at the British Museum, London.
Both exhibitions include Picasso, highlighting at the Courtauld the nineteen year old's influence from immediate near contemporaries Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh & at the British Museum the inspiration gained from Art dating over 20,000 years ago to the greatest of the 20th Century masters, including a particular London School of Painting & Drawing favourite, Matisse (also highlighted at the Courtauld with a drawing display: Picasso, Matisse and Maillol: The Female Model. Also finishing 26 May)...'One of the most beautiful pieces in the exhibition includes a 23,000 year old mammouth ivory sculpture of an 'abstract' figure from Lespugue, France. Picasso was so fascinated with this 'cubist' piece that he kept two copies of it. This figure demonstrates a visual brain capable of abstraction, the essential qualities needed to acquire and manipulate knowledge which underpins our ability to analyse what we see.' Source: British Museum website.
With this initial inspiration we shall continue to be inspired for the day with a choice of being able to work from either one or two model set ups.
www.britishmuseum.org/IceAgeArt
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2013/becoming-picasso/
...Coming up shortly:
Saturday 22nd June - Roman Art: Relating to the exhibition, once again at the British Museum, 'Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum', until 29 September.
Summer School 15th - 19th July: Including a choice of evening slide talks/lectures from Tuesday to Thursday, 5-6pm. (Topics TBC)
Saturday 21st September - L.S. Lowry: Relating to the exhibition 'Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life', 26 June - 20 October, Tate Britain.
Saturday painting class fee:
£74 (paints included), £69 (without paints)
All basic materials are provided: including easels, palettes, drawing boards, drawing paper, pencils, charcoal, white spirit, jam jars and brushes!!
Tuesday Drawing classes:
Fees: £210 per term, all materials included