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Sunday, 2 February 2014

Anyone looking to improve their portrait/figure painting skills ?

Figure painting workshop near Carcassonne in the south of France. staying in the beautiful domaine de St. Trapel The course is five days Monday 7th to Friday 11th April. We will be working with a live model 6 hours per day. Starting with a demonstration on painting a portrait the first morning. It is limited to 6 people with a lot of one to one attention. It is suitable for those with experience in painting in oils to an intermediate level. The price for 5 days tutoring including model is 350 euros per person. There is a special discounted rate for those who sign up at the beautiful domaine de St Trapel of 500 euros for 7 nights, Breakfast included. Each with their own room and bathroom. The domaine is approx 1 km from my studio. Please contact me for further info.

Friday, 31 January 2014

finished portrait in mirror

The glass panel, right of head must go ....















Still picking up wet paint reflection .....

Sunday, 26 January 2014

self portrait

Working on a self portrait, love to work with a patient model !
What is great is if you aren't sure of a colour you just move nearer
the mirror. I used a daylight softbox so that the lighting was constant.

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Domaine de St. Trapel

Figure painting workshop in the south of France 7 - 11 th April


Figure painting workshop near Carcassonne in the south of France. staying in the beautiful domaine de St. Trapel The course is five days Monday 7th to Friday 11th April. We will be working with a live model 6 hours per day. Starting with a demonstration on painting a portrait the first morning. It is limited to 6 people with a lot of one to one attention. It is suitable for those with experience in painting in oils to an intermediate level. The price for 5 days tutoring including model is 350 euros per person. There is a special discounted rate for those who sign up at the beautiful domaine de St Trapel of 500 euros for 7 nights, Breakfast included. Each with their own room and bathroom. The domaine is approx 1 km from my studio. Please contact me for further info.

Friday, 22 November 2013