At LFAS the foundation course is designed to guide you through the fundamentals of drafting, seeing abstractly and a beginners introduction to oil painting. During this term, I requested to teacher shadow, and I am currently assisting during one of the foundation courses. As I continue to study at the Atelier going back to the […]
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Jan
Jan
FORENSIC DETAIL MASTERCLASS @ DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY w/ SCOTT POHLSCHMIDT Date 26 January 2019 Time 10.00 – 15.00 Spend a day exploring the human form from an anatomical and artistic perspective with Ribera enthusiast Scott Pohlschmidt. The workshop will focus on the oil painting techniques of the old masters, a talk, and a live drawing lesson of two figure […]
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Dec
Dec
Week 8-10 During the final three weeks of term, we were introduced to colour theory and a limited palette of five different colours, alongside working from complicated casts and still life set-ups on longer projects. I loved grappling with the difficult still-life compositions and exploring how to portray the many different planes, colour tones and values. As each week […]
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Dec
Dec
Week 6-7 The first couple of lessons after half term were spent revising what we’d learnt before the break, as well as realising what had been forgotten – a week out of the studio is a long time! My drawing of the ‘Neapolitan Fisher Boy’ was the first portrait plaster cast that I’ve worked from and […]
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Nov
Nov
Well done Nneka Uzoigwe for your hard work on the two day still life painting demonstration at the RHS Harvest Festival October 2018. Here she is, featured in RHS’s The Garden December 2018 issue.
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Nov
Nov
One of our de Laszlo scholars Dante Orozco writes about his experience studying at LFAS: As an artist, I feel reconnected in this stage in my life while training at the atelier. My studies at London Fine Art Studios has enriched me with new knowledge as well as opened my artistic vision. I have previously painted […]
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Nov
Nov
Annam, one of our De Laszlo scholars writing about her favourite artist Vincent Desiderio. Among the art realm there lies a notion that you either belong to the modernists or the classical and that the two are warring or incomparable. Vincent Desiderio has managed to marry the two perfectly within his paintings which makes his […]
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Oct
Oct
De Laszlo scholar Nneka Uzoigwe gave an amazing lecture a couple of years ago on one of her favourite artists Dorothea Tanning, who has an upcoming exhibition at Tate Modern at the beginning of next year. In Nneka’s own words: I am very excited to see that Dorothea Tanning will be exhibiting at the Tate Modern next […]
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Oct
Oct
It has been another very productive couple of weeks at LFAS. The last four lessons have been spent building on the quick line exercises in charcoal on brown paper by moving towards sustained drawings of complicated casts, focusing on shadow shapes, shading and volume. We have learnt how to manipulate the charcoal in a variety […]
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Oct
Oct
This year’s Affordable Art Fair invited London Fine Art Studios tutors, Joni Duarte and Archie Wardlaw to present a live portrait painting demonstration. The demonstrations were held upstairs in the Artists Lounge area, showcasing the artists’ fine art techniques with an interactive description of each artists’ unique process, from the colours on the palette to understating the different […]
