EXPRESSIVE FIGURE PAINTING

This exciting new online figure course with artist Rob Unett gives participants a fantastic immersion into responding expressively to the figure with an amazing variety of techniques and different materials demonstrated. The course is packed with exercises for participants to work with using over 15 different looped model poses to paint from. All of the poses have full length demonstrations by the artist to help illustrate the exercises which encourage inventive exploration with mixed media on different scales from dry drawing materials through to inks and acrylic washes which are often worked into to allow the materials to play their part in the creation of dramatic, colourful and bold figure paintings and drawings. 

This course will feed new ways of working with a wide range of drawing and painting materials into any subject you might usually work with. An exciting and liberating course taught by a master of expressive mixed media painting. 

The course is pre-recorded so that you can take your time to really absorb the wealth of advice, practical exercises and demonstrations throughout the course. We would advise spending at least around 3-4 days working your way through the course. The artist suggests that it would be good to create several studies from each exercise to fully explore the learning and new techniques and approaches. You have unlimited access to the course for 12 months.

Chapters within the course include:

Session 1 - Dry Media

Not Life drawing 
Not wet yet 
Sketchbooks 
To smudge or not to smudge
Graphics 
Addition of chalk pastels     
Addition of oil pastels & wax crayon 
Addition of marker pens & felt tips 
Addition of water-soluble pastels & crayons 
Using all available dry media 
 

Session 2 - Colour & water soluble media

Dry water-soluble on Dry
Wet on Dry 
Etching Water 
Wet on Wet 
Note on Brushes 
Reflection
 

Session 3 – Large Scale Paintings from your Studies

Introduction to Scaling Up
Preparing your Paper
Selecting your study for scaling up
Painting 1 - Demonstration 
◦     session 1. Mapping and laying down colour blocks

◦     session 2. Laying down more layers of wet and dry media

◦     session 3. Time to be brave

Rob’s Artists of Influence
Painting 2 – Demonstration
◦     session 1. Colour background as a starting point

◦     session 2. Adding layers and refining marks

Tutor:
Rob Unett

Materials used on this course:

Large A1 paper, water-based acrylic paints or inks, soluble sketching pencils, crayons, charcoal and a range of brushes. A full list of materials is available once you purchase this course.

NB. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE ABOVE MATERIALS YOU CAN STILL GET A LOT OUT OF THE COURSE.

Intended for:

This online Expressive Figure Painting course is aimed at anyone who would like to push the boundaries of the techniques and materials they use to bring into their wider painting practice.

Duration:

The course is broken up into a series of exercises and demonstrations which can be worked with at your own pace but we would suggest that it might be experienced in stages over 3-4 days ideally.

You get 12 months of unlimited use of the course.

How to participate:

Simply click on the link we send you in your purchase confirmation email from which you can play
the main course film and also find the many accompanying looped model poses which you can
paint from. This can be a fantastic resource to work with from the comfort of your own
studio/home.
The exercises are demonstrated wonderfully by artist Rob Unett with lots of hints and tips and
then the directions for what you can then do are written on the screen for you in the text which
you can pause to really take in the advice. It is a jam-packed course with lots of exercises for you to
do and a wealth of advice and instruction from one of the UK's leading artists.

Level:

Accessible to all levels but a little previous experience of painting may be useful.

Age:

16+ might be a sensible guide age.

Additional info:

If you choose to buy this product, at the checkout you will be asked to create your own Newlyn School of Art online account (if you do not already have one) to access any purchase of digital content.  Purchasing of digital content grants the purchaser unlimited and immediate access for 1 year.  At the point of purchase, you have no right to cancel or gain a refund as you have received full access to the digital product. Please read the Terms and Conditions, Section 11.