Weekly on Mondays 10am to 5pm

You can book your place on a term by term basis or both terms. Fees per term £ 540

The course offers a unique practical approach to painting and drawing. We will investigate and practise the methods of painting and drawing across the ages and cultures of the human family, from Renaissance onto the 20th and 21st Centuries.

COURSE TERMS IN DETAIL

Term 2:  9 January to 20 March 2017

Please contact school for a pro rata calculation of fees for the remaining part of this term admin@theesop.com

Renaissance art, Tempera and early oil painting.

Tutor John Myers

John Myers

The course is going to cover the evolution of painting techniques from the early Renaissance to the 20th century, and the acquisition of these techniques in their widely divergent forms. The class will take place in the form of weekly workshops and you will have the possibility to discover and develop one or several of these amazing techniques to suit your individual requirements. There will be practical demonstrations as well as individual tuition. Part of each session will be devoted to detailed examination of paintings and the other part will be practical based and learning “hands on” how to use the painting material.

NB: This term will include visits to the National Gallery and other museums.

The school will provide most of the materials. You will be asked to bring your own brushes and given a list of optional items like extra pigments and panels.

What will you learn?

• You will learn to paint in egg tempera as practiced by Piero della Francesca and Fra Angelico and other early Flemish painters (and in the 20th century by Andrew Wyatt.)
• You will learn the renowned  “mixed technique” still taught at the Paris Beaux Arts, using opaque oil tempera and transparent oil glazing, as practiced in the 15th century by such artists as Jan Van Eyck (and in the 20th century by Mark Rothko).
• This will include working in alternate layers of opaque oil tempera, (emulsion) and oil glazing.and you will learn how to grind your colours. You will also experiment with the various oil techniques as practised by Rubens Rembrandt Titian …
• We will experiment with other traditional techniques such as the use of casein as well rabbits skin glue, often referred to as “distemper”.
• You will learn how to make the different traditional mediums and binders.

See bottom of page for course timetable.

Term 3:  24 April to 3 July 2017

20th to 21st Century Art

Tutor Anthony Daley

Anthony Daley Abstract Pic 2

We return to shift the course into the twentieth century by learning the methods and responding to the multiple developments in painting and the art movements of this complex and dynamic time. We will cover the developments in post war America and its period of ‘buckets- full- of- paint’ attitude – the sheer abundance and the abandonment of Abstract Expressionism. We will then consider the methods and materials of today’s painting by visiting contemporary practices including urban graffiti which has a superficial resemblances that takes us full circle back to the primordial environmental mark making of cave paintings.

COURSE TIMETABLE 2017