THIS CLASS IN NOW FULL
Fee £210
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Join us for an enriching three-day, in-studio course led by the artist Dan Coombs.
This immersive course aims empower you with the skills to convey emotion and captivate viewers through the intricate art of figure painting.
Course Highlights:
- Explore a variety of poses and compositions, whether working with a single figure or dynamic arrangements.
- Develop compelling narratives and compositions, unlocking the expressive potential of the human form.
- Daily sessions working directly from the model, capturing the essence of emotion in your drawings.
- Transform morning sketches into collages and studies, culminating in final-day masterpieces.
We will work from the model each morning and use these drawings to create collages and studies that will be made into paintings on the final day of the course. We will look at how the body carries and communicates emotions and unconscious thought, and also, study the way single or multiple figures can be arranged to create narratives. We will blur the division between figuration and abstraction to allow the possibilities for painting that arise from the figure to be as far reaching and varied as possible. Each student will be encouraged to follow their own intuition to give form to their own voice in working from the model.
This course explores creativity, self-expression, and the boundless possibilities inherent in the emotional depth of the figure. Dan Coombs will guide you through a transformative three-day journey, refining your technical skills while cultivating your personal artistic voice.
About Dan Coombs
Dan Coombs – Artist and Head of ESOP Advanced Painting Course.
Dan is a graduate of The Ruskin School, Oxford (1989-92) and the Royal College of Art (1992-94). He was Rome Scholar in painting British school in Rome (1994-5). He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Dan creates his compositions from studies in collage and paint, which unite his figures with entirely invented surroundings, landscape dream worlds and interior spaces. These are human encounters charged with a mysterious, symbolic power. They are explorations of guilt, beauty and fear of isolation; that draw on myth, religion and psychoanalysis in order to grasp the real within the imaginary > read more
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