What does imagined still life look like?
What does imagined still life look like?
Experimental Still Life - Self-Paced
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Module 1 - Welcome & Let's draw
Housekeeping
3
Module Plan
Materials list
Types of acrylic paint
5
Resources - tips- reading
2
Artist Mindset and Meditation
9
What inspires you right now?
15
Setting up a still life to work from
7
Gather Objects
5
Drawing Exercises - part one
10
More drawing exercises - part two
12
The value of reflecting on your work
6
Bonus video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
5
Bonus video 4
Module 2 - Composition and Colour
Module Plan
6
Principles and design elements cheat sheet
1
Composition - films to watch and a warm up exercise
4
Exercise 1 - Composing with values
6
Exercise 2 - assessing values using colourful paintings
8
Colour notes
5
Exercise 3, 4, 5 and 6 - colour mixing and value studies
2
Exercise 7 - painting with complementary colours
9
Exercise 8 - spatial awareness with colour
Bonus video - painting without black
3
Painting with principles and elements in mind
5
Exercise 9 - make a painting
2
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 monoprinting
5
Exercise 6 - collage
5
Exercise 7, 8 and 9 - three ways of painting on paper
1
Exercise 10 - painting without brushes
1
Exercise 11 - painting on cardboard
2
Exercise 12 - giant sketch painting
3
Exercise 13, 14 and 15 - painting over different values of background
3
Bonus demo - painting over an interesting background
Preparing for module 4
4
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 light
3
Exercise 3 - still life as self portrait
4
Exercise 4 - the hidden beauty of the mundane
Exercise 5 - the feeling of flowers
1
Exercise 6 - still life with views
1
Exercise 7 - disrupted realism
1
Exercise 8 - stylisation
2
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 between
2
Exercise 5 - sophisticated abstraction
1
Exercise 6 - let yourself be loose
Exercise 7- line more than anything
Exercise 8 - organic abstraction
Exercise 9 - if colour were the main subject
2
Abstract Painting with Sally-Anne Ashley
1
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 up
2
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 week
3
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
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Experimental Still Life - Self-Paced
Buy now
Learn more
Module 1 - Welcome & Let's draw
Housekeeping
3
Module Plan
Materials list
Types of acrylic paint
5
Resources - tips- reading
2
Artist Mindset and Meditation
9
What inspires you right now?
15
Setting up a still life to work from
7
Gather Objects
5
Drawing Exercises - part one
10
More drawing exercises - part two
12
The value of reflecting on your work
6
Bonus video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
5
Bonus video 4
Module 2 - Composition and Colour
Module Plan
6
Principles and design elements cheat sheet
1
Composition - films to watch and a warm up exercise
4
Exercise 1 - Composing with values
6
Exercise 2 - assessing values using colourful paintings
8
Colour notes
5
Exercise 3, 4, 5 and 6 - colour mixing and value studies
2
Exercise 7 - painting with complementary colours
9
Exercise 8 - spatial awareness with colour
Bonus video - painting without black
3
Painting with principles and elements in mind
5
Exercise 9 - make a painting
2
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 monoprinting
5
Exercise 6 - collage
5
Exercise 7, 8 and 9 - three ways of painting on paper
1
Exercise 10 - painting without brushes
1
Exercise 11 - painting on cardboard
2
Exercise 12 - giant sketch painting
3
Exercise 13, 14 and 15 - painting over different values of background
3
Bonus demo - painting over an interesting background
Preparing for module 4
4
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 light
3
Exercise 3 - still life as self portrait
4
Exercise 4 - the hidden beauty of the mundane
Exercise 5 - the feeling of flowers
1
Exercise 6 - still life with views
1
Exercise 7 - disrupted realism
1
Exercise 8 - stylisation
2
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 between
2
Exercise 5 - sophisticated abstraction
1
Exercise 6 - let yourself be loose
Exercise 7- line more than anything
Exercise 8 - organic abstraction
Exercise 9 - if colour were the main subject
2
Abstract Painting with Sally-Anne Ashley
1
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 up
2
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 week
3
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