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About the course

This evening class is an exciting opportunity to build your drawing and painting skills. Jack will guide you through foundational drawing techniques and help you translate them into paintings. Working from different still-life compositions and your imagination you will experiment with various media and approaches to build exciting compositions. You will also explore drawing techniques and approaches of selected artists to inspire your creative development.

This course is for all abilities from beginners to those who want to build their portfolio in preparation for further study.

Course content

In this course you will learn the fundamental techniques of drawing from observation, learning how to effectively render form, scale, and proportion. Through guided practice, you’ll experiment with a variety of mark-making methods to convey texture and tone.

You will then transition in into painting, exploring mediums such as oils and watercolours. You’ll learn essential skills such as colour mixing, layering, and brushwork to create dynamic and expressive compositions.

By the end of the course, you’ll have developed a range of technical skills and produced your own collection of works, gaining confidence in both drawing and painting.

About the tutor

Jack Duplock Studied art at the Royal Academy School of art and has over 20 years’ experience as a practising artist. He is also a qualified teacher with experience teaching learners from various backgrounds and abilities. His teaching specialisms include collage, watercolour and acrylic techniques and drawing. His work explores landscape and the figure. Working from photographs his work is based on both personal and found imagery.

He has shown his work both in The UK and internationally. Notable exhibitions have included a recent solo show at the Agency Gallery London, group shows at Durden and Ray in Los Angeles and Kunstalboratorium Vestfossen , Norway. He has been included in New Contemporaries and John Moore painting prize. His work is in various private collections.

What do I need to join
This course is for all abilities from beginners to those who want to build their portfolio in preparation for further study. Applicants must be at least 19 years of age at the start of the academic year, to attend this course.