We offer two levels of subscription – a Raw Umber Gold subscription and a Raw Umber Standard subscription.
The Raw Umber Standard Subscription includes:
- Online, tutored portrait drawing sessions every Sunday
- Online, tutored figure drawing classes every Wednesday
- Access to recordings of our all our figure and portrait sessions, going back to March 2020
- High-resolution model packs to draw and paint from
- Regular discounts and special deals from companies such as Pegasus Art and Rosemary & Co.
The Raw Umber Gold Subscription is our most popular option and includes:
Everything in the standard subscription, plus bonus content including:
- Lizet Dingemans’ 5 week drawing fundamentals course
- Lizet’s 4 week oil painting class and challenge
- Painting with Economy by David Shevlino
- Plein Air Painting by Magdalena Kusowska
- Painting a Pear by Craig Stephens
- 5 Week Cast Painting Series by Patrick Jackson
- Lizet’s 4 week portrait painting course
- Our complete, searchable video library
- Our library of 3D images
- New videos as we release them
The standard subscription costs £9.50 per month. The gold subscription costs £13.50 per month.
The perfect, challenging stimulus to develop and improve my own style of portrait and figure drawing […] a super set of reference materials and videos to go back to – Mike Sykes
Your subscription will start immediately, and you will be charged every month from the day you subscribed. So if you subscribe today, you will be charged today, and then in a month’s time, and so on. There is no minimum period, and you can cancel at any time. Read more on our terms and conditions page.
You can see an example of some of our sessions below, or search our complete video library.
2 June 2020
Watch Ned Mueller create a value study in real time. Over 30 minutes, Ned uses basic materials (Conte charcoal and an eraser) to create a portrait that captures the essence of his subject, demonstrating the importance of simplifying and organising values and edges.
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27 April 2020
Values are one of the three most fundamental principles in painting and drawing. In this short video, David Shevlino explains what values are, how to see them, why they are so important and what exercises you can use to get to grips with them.
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12 August 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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19 July 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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9 September 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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30 August 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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25 September 2020
Watch Magdalena Kusowska paint a landscape from the Cotswolds and listen to her advice on tools, materials and techniques
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5 July 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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7 July 2020
In this five week course, Lizet Dingemans uses Bargue drawing as the basis for teaching the fundamentals of drawing. It's a proven way to train your eye and has been used to teach generations of artists since its introduction in the nineteenth century. By copying Charles Bargue's drawings of classical statues you learn how he simplified complex subjects and you improve the accuracy of your drawing in a structured, repeatable way. Whether your ultimate goal is to draw or to paint in oils, watercolours or acrylics, this course will give you a solid foundation on which to build.
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21 June 2020
Join Lizet Dingemans and draw or paint in this one hour session.
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13 April 2021
Increase the depth of your understanding of colour with this exciting new, 4-part course.
Students will be introduced to painting in colour through a series of limited palettes, each designed to isolate and teach them a lesson about the three fundamental dimensions of colour.
By the end of the course, students will understand how to paint in full colour and design their own palette colour choices intelligently.
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31 May 2021
In this exciting new course, Lizet Dingemans will be teaching how to paint portraits in acrylics. Over the course of 4 lessons, Lizet will cover the fundamentals of painting in acrylics and explain how it differs from oil painting.
She will cover materials, proportions, measurement, values, edges and colours - everything that you need to create a realistic portrait. Each session is self-contained and painted in real-time so you can paint along if you like. You will paint a complete portrait in each session. In addition, each session will have a particular focus:
Week 1 - Basics of how to use acrylics
Week 2 - How to mix realistic skin tones
Week 3 - Painting a monochromatic portrait
Week 4 - Tiling using patches of colours (no mixing on the canvas allowed!)
The first session is free, and the rest are available to our gold subscribers.
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19 July 2021
In this exciting new course, Patrick Jackson will introduce landscape painting. Over the course of 4 lessons he'll cover:
* Materials and equipment
* Tools and techniques
* Composition
* Linear and aerial perspective
* How to realistically paint trees, clouds and skies
* How to start and finish a landscape painting
Patrick will be painting both in the studio and outside. We'll provide reference photos you can follow along from.
Although Patrick will be painting in oils, the principles apply to all media.
The first session - covering materials and equipment,linear and aerial perspective, and how to analyze a landscape - is free, and the rest are available to our gold subscribers.
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