Portraits of the Masters

with artist & tutor Alicia Coombs Tuesdays 1.30 - 4pm

Starts Jan 14, 2025

280 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

For Centuries, artists have studied the works of contemporaries and past masters, to enhance and expand their own dexterity in painting and drawing practise. It is incredible to think, that all around us are readily available examples to study and support us in our journey of artistic development. These living works are a gift from these past masters, who continue to live all around us through their legacy of work. This course suits those who have used and worked in oil paint before. In this course, students will study 2 drawings in preparation to paint over the ensuing 3 weeks of an 8 week course. By drawing in the first week of the two sets, you will first identify light shapes & shadow shapes, lost & found edges, value relationships and transitions) then bring this understanding of your master copy drawing into weeks 2,3 & 4 for painting the same image. The two works chosen for this course are: Miss Elsie Palmer by John Singer Sargent 1889 - 1890 and Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel by John Singer Sargent 1903 We will be focusing on their portraits only as opposed to studying the full length original works. Course Structure Week 1: Drawing 1 Week 2: Painting 1 Week 3: Painting 1 Week 4: Painting 1 Week 5: Drawing 2 Week 6: Painting 2 Week 7: Painting 2 Week 8: Painting 2 Materials: Oil Paint Large Tubes Burnt Umber (200 ml) Raw Umber (200ml) Titanium White (200ml ) brand Sennelier Yellow Ochre (200 ml) Small Tubes Ivory Black Alizaren Crimson Cadmium Red Light or English Red Cadmium Red deep Cobalt blue or Ultramarine Blue Linseed Oil Palette Knife Chung King Hog Hair Paint Brushes of varying sizes 2,4,6,8,10 and 2-3 of each, long handle. www.rosemaryandco.com 1 box of Nitram Charcoal - green 1 putty eraser Supports: x2 50 x 60cms 19mm depth Jacksons linen canvas https://www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s-premium-stretched-linen-canvas-13oz-400gsm Alicia is manager of The Edinburgh Drawing School, and looks forward to Tuesdays being 'painting days at work'! for Spring Term I 2025. Alicia is a classically trained portrait and figurative artist, alumna of The Florence Academy of Art and works from life.

Upcoming Sessions

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