PORTRAIT PAINTING
This six week course is suitable for both beginners as well as experienced students.
The course will provide you with an understanding of the methods, materials and concepts required to create a portrait in oils.
Basic anatomy, colour mixing, paint application and ways of looking will all be discussed.
The long poses will allow you to develop a sustained engagement with your work and will give you the opportunity to complete 2 painted portraits during the term.
Saturdays
8 November - 13 December / 10.00am – 4.00pm
6 weeks / No half term break
ABOUT THE TUTOR:
Allan Ramsay is a Scottish portrait painter based in London.
Allan attended figure drawing classes at Edinburgh College of Art from 1978-1982. He then went on to study drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1982-1986. He also trained at the Art Students League in New York.
In 1988 he won first prize in the John Player Portrait Award / BP Portrait Award at the National Gallery in London.As part of this prize he was commissioned to paint the portrait of Sir Alan Ayckbourn for the NPG permanent collection.
Other notable commissions include a portrait of Dr.John Mackay, Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh District Council.
He was also a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award (Canada), a prestigious award for figurative painting.
He has regularly exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Academy summer exhibtion.
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Cover Painting: Allan Ramsay
