THE EDINBURGH DRAWING SCHOOL
Edinburgh's original independent art school
Painting the Clothed Figure
with artist & tutor Alicia Coombs Thursdays 1.30 - 4pm referencing Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe
Service Description
This afternoon painting course can be taken as a stand alone, or following the morning drawing class which can serve to make a preparation drawing for the afternoon painting. The model will hold the same pose for morning and afternoon. During the afternoons, students will bring on their drawing of the clothed figure and transform their morning observations into a painting in oil. Students will make 5 paintings over 10 weeks. Together, we will look at how the figure is connected to it's background, and how the surrounding environment can inform and soften the portrait - away from a figure feeling 'superimposed', but more towards a figure which occupies it's surrounding space. The exercise is to find harmony and identity by the use of seeing shapes abstractly, to make a stronger and balanced composition. Samuel John Peploe (b1871 - 1935), was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. He was also a beautiful painter of portraits and figures within their settings. Alicia Coombs is manager of The Edinburgh Drawing School, alumna of The Florence Academy of Art, and holds a History of Art BA Hons degree from The University of York. She has worked all over the world to support her studies in Art History and painting, having taught in schools and also privately over the past 15 years. Alicia teaches with a particular focus to bring on a students' drawing & painting techniques. Materials- a detailed list of exact materials will be sent upon signing up to the course. Staedtler pencils 2B,B,HB, H, 2H Nitram Fusians Charcoal - green packets x 3 Nitram sanding sharper putty eraser Oil paints: Ultramarine blue 60 - 120ml English red 40-60ml Titanium White - 200ml Ivory Black - 60-120ml Yellow Ochre - 60-120ml Burnt Umber 120ml Raw Umber 120ml Cadmium red medium 40-60ml Paper disposable palettes or wooden or flat plastic palette Linseed Oil / Safflower oil Plastic bags pot you can close with a lid Paintbrushes: Chungking bristle brushes extra long filbert long handle Rosemary&Co series 2045 palette knife Alla Prima art carrier for panels or canvasses (unique Edinburgh Drawing School discount code) Linen panels or canvasses of 50x60, 50x70cms Cancon Miteintes single sheet A2 light toned paper Gamsol - only for wiping down brushes at the end of the session
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