MONDAY TO THURSDAY 10 – 5 PM
£300
11 – 14 JULY / 4 DAYS

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Course Description

This four day online course offers students the opportunity to explore the first principles of painting. The emphasis of the teaching is to look at painting as a means of articulating form and as a tool for expression and creative imagination.

The course concludes by addressing subjective colour and strategies for developing personal work. It is our aim that students leave the course with a set of criteria helping them to explore ways of representing perceived objects and supporting them in thinking about how they might use these methods of working in conjunction with their own ideas. These sessions will be practical and delivered by both online live teaching, demonstration films and written material.

The support material is designed to help students think about further possibilities within the wider remit of painting that can be questioned in their own time.

The sessions have been designed to be worked on at home in a space no bigger than your table top. Students will have access an introductory film in advance of the live session to familiarise themselves with the ideas, practical set up and exercises we will be undertaking. Students will have access to our online platform (UCL Extend) where they will be able to find all the asynchronous teaching (videos), instructions for the session and link to the online live session.

Who should take this course?

This course suits a cross-section of experiences from complete beginners to those who are more experienced but would like to re-engage with first principles in Painting. We recommend that students have a rudimentary knowledge of drawing in order to obtain maximum benefit from the course. If you have already taken our online Drawing course, this is an ideal follow-on.

Materials

Students will be sent a full materials list to purchase what is needed before the start of the course.

You will need to have the following materials for the first session:
A mixed set of student brushes, including stiff/soft, as well as a ‘drawing’ brush - long and pointed such as a ‘rigger’ no 2, a glass jar with lid, wet wipes for hands, rags or paper towels for brushes, palette knife for mixing. 
Paints: Ivory Black, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue and Ultramarine Blue. 
We recommend that each student has a sketchbook. 
Please note: you will need a retarding medium for acrylics in order to stop them drying too quickly when colour mixing.

10% discount on CassArt orders

The Slade Short Course team have collaborated with CassArt and put a basket together with all the materials needed for each session. This optional materials pack can be ordered from Cass Art online and posted to you. You have the option to remove and add items to this kit. http://www.cassart.co.uk/SLADESHORTCOURSESPAINTING

Course Tutors: Ian Rowlands, Kate Hopkins, Sandra Smith

MONDAY - FRIDAY 10 – 5 PM
£300
18 – 22 JULY / 5 DAYS

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Course Description

This online course offers students the opportunity to weave a personal bias into a project that revisits first principles in Drawing and Painting as outlined in our introductory courses. The course will run over five days - 8 sessions of 3 hours each, with a free morning and afternoon built in to allow for some self-directed practice before the final session.

Each session will re-visit a particular set of formal issues that underpin the nature of ‘building an image’ through Drawing and Painting, and augment these with techniques on paint handling and translating images into compositions. It begins with observational drawing from your environment, developing these in terms of: tone and colour; the addition of subject matter from figures and objects; guidance through some technical processes of paint handling and composition. The last session will be devoted to personal feedback and support for continuing after the course finishes.

Who should take this course?

This course is an ideal follow-on from the courses we have been running online for the last two years. It suits a cross section of experiences. Whilst it has been designed for people who have undertaken the introductory courses in Painting and Drawing, it would also suit those who have had some previous experience in first principles of ‘building an image’ elsewhere, and would like to refresh those ideas. The intention is to guide individuals as to how ‘first principles’ can be built on, extrapolated from and added to with further technical processes, and how these might be taken forward and integrated into a more sustained body of work. The outcome will be a body of drawings and painterly studies providing a solid grounding of starts and ideas for personal work.

Materials

These sessions will be practical and supported by online live teaching, demonstration films and written material. Students will be given a materials list, and for the painting elements can either work with oil colour or acrylic paint. A link to a suggested materials pack is on the website, that can be adjusted by the student to their own needs.

The sessions have been designed to be worked on at home in a space no bigger than your table top. Students will be sent an introductory film in advance of the live session explaining the ideas behind the exercises as well as demos to familiarise themselves with the ideas, practical set up and exercises we will be undertaking. Students will also receive a link to our online platform with the pre-recorded videos and instructions as to how to take part in your online live session. We will also provide technical support during the live sessions for those who feel unsure of working with the digital platform.

Each session will begin with an introduction, then students will be given some time to begin work. There will be PDFs to support the films that include the transcript, recommended reading material, plus some suggested exercises for progressing with the subject.

Course Tutors: Ian Rowlands, Kate Hopkins, Sandra Smith