Felicia Forte, BP Portrait Award prize winner, teaches this 4 day alla prima workshop. With demonstration and gentle critique, Felicia will challenge you to correctly observe and record the fundamentals: shapes, values, edges and color.

Regular BP Portrait award exhibitor Anastasia Pollard will teach you how to paint a portrait with a limited colour palette.

In the 3 day course, tutor Ben Laughton Smith will help you tackle the often complex topic of oil painting with a structured, classical approach. He will break painting up into stages: a raw umber under painting, a simple colour block in, the addition of mid tones and the completion of the finished painting.

This weekend workshop drawing the figure from life with Lucas Garcia is the perfect way to improve your figure drawing skills.

Join David Shevlino and learn about painting alla prima (wet into wet) and the techniques used to create a fresh, direct response to your subjects. You’ll learn about composition, value, color, light and shadow and how to simplify forms. You’ll spend 2 days on a still life and 2 days working from a live model.

This three day workshop is ideal for beginner and intermediate artists who would like to gain experience in painting the portrait from life in oils.

Ever wondered how past and modern masters gained their skills? This four-day introduction to the modern atelier will show you. You’ll be drawing and painting plaster casts in the morning, and the figure in the afternoon. It’s a proven way to improve your drawing and painting skills.

This intensive weekend course is designed to teach artists fundamental and advanced anatomy and how this knowledge can be applied to drawing, sculpture, illustration, character design, modelling, rigging, or animation.

This four day workshop with Luca Indraccolo is ideal for beginner, intermediate and advanced artists who would like to gain experience in painting the figure from life in oils.

In this workshop, you will be introduced to an indirect painting method for classical portraiture. Using comparative measurement, you will paint a head and shoulders portrait in raw umber and lead white. Next, you will execute a small full palette study that determines the specific color mixtures and establishes, in the most simplified manner, the value range that will best achieve a light effect and create volume.

In this five day intensive portrait workshop, you will draw the portrait for two days and then paint the same model in the same pose for three days. While we will explore the portrait in these two mediums, we will also investigate the elements that remain a constant through these mediums, such as observation techniques and the foundation for structure.

Students will paint from the live model in this four day portrait painting workshop. Instructor Teresa Oaxaca will work in oils and demonstrate over the course of four days her direct and layered approach to painting the portrait.

This four day workshop with Luca Indraccolo is ideal for beginner, intermediate and advanced artists who would like to gain experience in painting the figure from life in oils.

This 4 day course is a rare opportunity to study closely with one of the UK’s foremost portrait painters. Rupert Alexander has painted several members of the Royal Family, including HRH the Queen. With a maximum of 6 students and 2 students per model, this is an intense, highly focussed course.