Bonus demo - painting over an interesting background

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Experimental Still Life - Self-Paced

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Module 1 - Welcome & Let's draw

  • Housekeeping3
  • Module Plan
  • Materials list
  • Types of acrylic paint5
  • Resources - tips- reading2
  • Artist Mindset and Meditation9
  • What inspires you right now?15
  • Setting up a still life to work from7
  • Gather Objects5
  • Drawing Exercises - part one10
  • More drawing exercises - part two12
  • The value of reflecting on your work6
  • Bonus video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 35
  • Bonus video 4

Module 2 - Composition and Colour

  • Module Plan6
  • Principles and design elements cheat sheet 1
  • Composition - films to watch and a warm up exercise4
  • Exercise 1 - Composing with values6
  • Exercise 2 - assessing values using colourful paintings8
  • Colour notes5
  • Exercise 3, 4, 5 and 6 - colour mixing and value studies2
  • Exercise 7 - painting with complementary colours9
  • Exercise 8 - spatial awareness with colour
  • Bonus video - painting without black3
  • Painting with principles and elements in mind5
  • Exercise 9 - make a painting2
  • Preparing for module 3
  • Bonus videos
  • Bonus Video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 3
  • Bonus Video 4

Module 3 - Let's explore

  • Module Plan
  • Exercise 1 and 2 - backgrounds, lines and shapes
  • Exercise 3, 4 and 5 - using a Gelli plate and monoprinting5
  • Exercise 6 - collage5
  • Exercise 7, 8 and 9 - three ways of painting on paper 1
  • Exercise 10 - painting without brushes1
  • Exercise 11 - painting on cardboard 2
  • Exercise 12 - giant sketch painting3
  • Exercise 13, 14 and 15 - painting over different values of background3
  • Bonus demo - painting over an interesting background
  • Preparing for module 44
  • Bonus Video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 3
  • Bonus Video 4

Module 4 - Everyone can paint a lemon

  • Module Plan
  • Introduction
  • Inspiring paintings
  • Exercise 1 - how will you paint a lemon?
  • Exercise 2 - painting the light3
  • Exercise 3 - still life as self portrait4
  • Exercise 4 - the hidden beauty of the mundane
  • Exercise 5 - the feeling of flowers1
  • Exercise 6 - still life with views1
  • Exercise 7 - disrupted realism1
  • Exercise 8 - stylisation2
  • Process note - something to think about if you are already scaling up
  • Bonus Video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 3
  • Bonus Video 4

Module 5 - Painting from the inside out

  • Module Plan
  • What does imagined still life look like?
  • Exercise 1 - paint what emerges 2
  • Exercise 2 - visions of vessels 2
  • Edited live session where I worked on exercise 2
  • Exercise 3 - floral adventure
  • Exercise 4 - memory game
  • Optional project - creating a mini series
  • An edited Q+ A from 2021
  • Exercise 5 - Bringing it all together
  • Bonus Video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 3
  • Bonus Video 4

Module 6 - Let's abstract

  • Overview
  • A film to watch and Exercise 1 - where do you see abstraction in your work now?
  • Exercise 2 - continue to work out what abstraction for you is by painting from life
  • Exercise 3 - printing with the Gelli plate in an abstract way
  • Exercise 4 - the spaces in between2
  • Exercise 5 - sophisticated abstraction1
  • Exercise 6 - let yourself be loose
  • Exercise 7- line more than anything
  • Exercise 8 - organic abstraction
  • Exercise 9 - if colour were the main subject2
  • Abstract Painting with Sally-Anne Ashley1
  • Bonus Video 1
  • Bonus Video 2
  • Bonus Video 3
  • Bonus Video 4

Module 7 - Let's Go Big!

  • Module Plan
  • Inspiration
  • Exercise 1 - analyse, analyse
  • Priming your large surfaces
  • Planning your colour palette and paintings
  • Exercises 2 and 3 - warm up to scaling up2
  • Exercise 4 - covering large surfaces in different ways
  • Exercise 5 - intuitive painting on an old canvas
  • Exercise 6 - painting on raw canvas
  • Exercise 7 - blind painting as the starting point
  • Exercise 8 - make the biggest painting you can in a week3
  • Starting on a few paintings or even a series...
  • The messy middle
  • Nearing the end?
  • Bonus Videos

Module 8 - Practical Tips

  • Before you varnish - photograph your work
  • Do you want to make prints of your work?
  • Varnishing
  • Framing
  • Studio and business practice
  • Making money from your work
  • Final Thoughts