PART 1 – WHAT PAINT CAN DO
Project 1 – Basic paint application
Ex 1 – Brushes
Ex. 2 – Applying paint without brushes
Ex. 3 – Painting with pastels
Project 2 – Transparent and Opaque
Ex. 4 – Monochrome studies
Project 3 – Working on different colour grounds
Ex. 1 – Tonal study on a white ground
Ex. 2 – Tonal study on dark ground
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PART 2 – CLOSER TO HOME
Project 1 – Colour
Ex. 1 – Mixing greys, anachromatic scale
Ex. 2/3/4 – Primary, secondary colour mixing, broken or tertiary colours, complementary colours
Project 2 – Still Life
Ex. 1 – Drawing in Paint
Ex. 2 – Still Life with flowers
Ex. 3 – Still Life with natural objects
Ex. 4 – Still Life with Man-made objects
Project 3 – Colour Relationships
Ex. 1 – Exploring contrasts
Ex. 2 – Successive contrasts
Ex. 3 – Colour accuracy
Ex. 4 – Still Life with complementary colours
Ex. 5. – Still Life with colour used to evoke mood
Project 4 –
Ex. 1 – Quick sketches around the house
Ex. 2 – Simple perspective in interior studies
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PART 3 – PORTRAIT AND FIGURE
Project 1 – Observing the human figure
Ex 1 – Drawing the human figure
Ex 2 – Linear figure study
Ex 3 – Tonal figure study
Project 2 – Looking at faces
Ex 1 – Self-portrait
Ex 2 – Head and shoulder portrait
Ex 3 – Creating mood and atmosphere
Ex 4 – Conveying character
Project 3 – People in context
Ex 1 – A figure in an interior
Ex 2 – Telling a story
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PART 4 – LOOKING OUT
Project 1
Ex. 4.1.1 – Writing a review
Project 2 – From inside looking out
Ex. 1 – View from a window or a door
Ex. 2 – Hard or soft landscape
Project 3 – Perspective
Ex. 1 – Linear Perspective
Ex. 2 – Aerial Perspective
Project 4 – Expressive Landscape
Ex. 1 Creating mood and atmosphere
Project 5 – Painting outside
Ex. 1 – Painting a landscape outside
Project 6 – Working from a drawing and photographs
Ex. 1 – Painting from a working drawing
Ex. 2 – Squaring up
Ex. 3 – Working from a photograph
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PART 5 – PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Project 1 – Different ways of applying paint
Ex. 5.1.1 – Impasto
Ex. 5.1.2 – Dripping, dribbling and spattering
Project 2 – Adding other materials
Ex. 5.2.1/2– Preparing a textured ground/Mixing materials into paint
Project 3 – Towards abstraction
Ex. 5.3.1– Abstraction from study of natural forms
Ex. 5.3.2 – Abstract Painting from man-made form
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