THE EDINBURGH DRAWING SCHOOL
High quality art instruction tutored by professional artists for Children, Teens & Adults
Figure in a Landscape from Life 2 Days
with artist & tutor Alicia Coombs
Available spots
Service Description
All Materials Provided. Highest Quality Oil Paint, a hand prepared surface, brushes and medium. Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th August 2026 10am - 4pm All levels welcome You may bring your own set of brushes if you wish and we recommend our set made up by Rosemary & Co, which you can purchase here: https://www.rosemaryandco.com/brush-sets/atelier-academy/edinburgh-drawing-school-oil-set In this two day course, we will be painting a live model (most probably a beautiful girl in a long summer dress) surrounded by our garden and flowers in Great King Street. This is a summer program which has now taken place for the last three years at E.D.S. and with the warmer weather, is a delightful , yet challenging subject to attempt. The challenge is to not paint the figure 'too cut out' and in 'sharp' or 'illustrative' way amongst the landscape, but integrated with it. Alicia will show you how to achieve this, by looking at edge work, and echoed colours of the landscape which often then play reflected on skin tone and clothing. You will be guided through a staged approach, after a short demonstration on colour mixing and possible composition. Course structure: Saturday morning: demo, colour mixing, composition decisions Saturday afternoon: blocking in colour, softening edges Sunday morning and afternoon: achieving detail and pushing contrast. Alicia Coombs is a classically trained painter and director of The Edinburgh Drawing School. During the summer she embraces teaching with the opportunity that the summer months provide.
Upcoming Sessions
Cancellation Policy
We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance If a tutor cannot teach a class due to illness, the scheduled class will be covered by another tutor or the class will be postponed and rescheduled for the following week at the same time on the same day of the week. Make up classes are scheduled during the half term week, or in the week following the end of term. The Edinburgh Drawing School runs 8 week terms of scheduled classes, 9 weeks if including the half term and then 10 weeks to include a week at the end of term for any necessary make up classes. Thus, the business always completes it's contractual obligations of 8 scheduled classes to booked students. If a student cannot attend a make up class, no refund is due.
Contact Details
13A Great King Street, Edinburgh, UK
+ 0131 556 0971
info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk