Summer School brochure - The Prince's Drawing School

Kensington Palace Studios SUMMER scHOOL 2012
Week One: 2 - 6 July
Painting a Head Tutor: Susan Wilson
5 day course: Monday 2 - Friday 6 July
Studios 1 and 2 / 10am-5pm
A painting class in which students will explore painting the portrait. Students will have the
rare opportunity to paint from the same sitter for the duration of the week.
“Velasquez imbued his sitters with a magical veracity, a quality of momentariness and a
spiritual presence that Ortega Y Gasset described as “phantom-like”. By taking his subject and
transforming it impressionistically into a mass of insubstantial brushstrokes which Quevedo
termed “distant blobs” which from a distance became truth, not appearance, Velasquez achieved
a configuration within the portrait where all that really mattered was the immediate reality of
the person portrayed.” Alfonso E Perez Sanchez “Velasquez and the Baroque Portrait”
In this intensive week of painting, students will aim to capture the personality of the model
working from observation. Help will be given with mixing and use of paint and composition,
but most of all the aim is to make the painted head have life. All levels of ability welcome.
Fee: £325
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