Sketching into Painting 14-16 August (Week Four) ADULTS
Duration: 0 Days
Date: Sat 15 Aug - Sun 16 Aug, 2020
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tutor: Mick Kirkbride
Price: £190
'Sketching into Painting' This intense 3 day workshop will focus on information gathering to underpin a final painted outcome. The first two days will be 'En Plein Air' based, using the immediate surrounding. Day three will be studio based where participants will develop their sketches/ studies into a final composition. Participants may use any media; watercolour , oil, acrylics, pastel, chalk ink etc ) but no white spirit if using oil - please use an alternative thinner ie - Zestit )
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Tutor
Mick Kirkbride
Painter and teacher Mick Kirkbride is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools (1992-1995). He was Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts from 1996 to 2011. In 2004 he was elected a member of The New English Art Club, becoming the Curator of its education programme in 2014 teaching a range of drawing classes at both The Mall Galleries Learning Centre and Heatherley’s School of Art. Mick has taught drawing and painting at all levels including postgraduate. For the past four years he has led a series of life-drawing classes and specialist workshops for the Royal Academy of Arts’ Academic Programme.
Tutors
Mick Kirkbride
Painter and teacher Mick Kirkbride is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools (1992-1995). He was Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts from 1996 to 2011. In 2004 he was elected a member of The New English Art Club, becoming the Curator of its education programme in 2014 teaching a range of drawing classes at both The Mall Galleries Learning Centre and Heatherley’s School of Art. Mick has taught drawing and painting at all levels including postgraduate. For the past four years he has led a series of life-drawing classes and specialist workshops for the Royal Academy of Arts’ Academic Programme.
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