Join this 1-day course on digital painting. You’ll learn to set up and use a drawing tablet, then will be taught to make your own digital brushes from marks made using traditional media, create textured brushes, and use Mixer brushes to blend using wet brush techniques.
We’ll also cover how to make limited colour palettes that will improve digital paintings of any subject or style.
Suitable for all creative people including complete beginners who’d like to explore digital painting, this course is run by Cally Gibson and is based in our fantastic facilities on our beautiful Falmouth campus.
At the end of the day, you’ll take home:
• 5 digital print copies of your work
• A pack of Photoshop brushes

This creative 4-day course, suitable for all levels, will teach you to firstly draw and then paint the figure from life.

Working from a model and using the historic sight- size method employed by Titian, Velazquez and Singer Sargent, you will be supported to create a full-length figure painting over the course of 4 days.

The course will introduce oil painting techniques and the limited palette of colours and then support students to carefully build up layers of paint, exploring various techniques for oil painting and discussing colour, tone, anatomy and light effect.

Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.

This 4-day painting course, suitable for all levels, will develop your skills in and approaches to portrait painting using oils.

Working from a life model, the course will focus on teaching you to firstly draw and then paint a portrait from life using traditional techniques and materials, taking inspiration from painters such as Titian, Van Dyke, Velasquez and Reubens.

You’ll leave with a greater understanding of oil painting techniques, traditional approaches to charcoal portrait drawing, and mixing using a limited colour palette. You will take your final charcoal drawing on paper and a final oil painting on canvas home you.

Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.

Starting with the foundational knowledge of the classical sight size technique, students will spend 4 days in practical workshops creating drawings and then a final painting in oil of themselves, learning to look at the technicalities of anatomy, proportions, and compositional strategies as well as expression.

As well as gaining a technical understanding of self-portrait and oil painting techniques, students will also study colour theory, learning to mix paint using a limited colour palette. They will take their drawings and final oil painting on canvas home with them.

Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.

Immerse yourself in this 3 day creative course learning to paint a still life in oils.

Working on a gesso panel, you will first draw your composition onto the panel, as we explore the history of, and symbolic meaning historically imbued within, still-life painting.
After an introduction to oil painting techniques and the history of the limited palette, we will focus on practical and technical skills, gradually building layers of paint learning to create depth of colour, texture and light effect.

Through a series of practical exercises, you’ll experiment with wet into wet painting, scraping back, glazes and impasto as methods for creating a beautifully observed painting from life which you will take home at the end of the course.
Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.