ONLINE: Figure Painting

This is an 8 week ONLINE course where only clothed figure models will be used. Instead of posing live online, the instructor will photograph the models at the TSA studios and email a selection to all class participants. This allows variation in pose selection, portrait or full body, various lighting effects and scene set ups. The participant can print these images or use a tablet, phone or split the screen with the Zoom window on a computer

Each set of photographs will be used as a 4-week block so participants can work on a painting through the stages of Block In, colour and finish within that model session. If a student wishes to work on small quick paintings, one or more per class rather than one finished larger piece, they are welcome to do this. There will be a selection of photos to try out different techniques. Before the fourth class, a new selection of photos will be sent out for the second half of the course.

Beginners will be given step by step instructions on the painting process, i.e. introducing figure proportion and anatomy. Also the stages of a painting: beginning with block in, tonal scale, composition structure, colour in the master palette and flesh tones to achieve a realistic rendering of the figure. There will be on-line demonstrations of painting techniques by the instructor.

Advanced painters may want to use the figure model for more abstract interpretations.

Attention will be given to the challenges (and advantages) of the use of photographs as opposed to painting directly from the live model.

Oil or Acrylic painting will be demonstrated by the instructor but participants are free to use drawing materials, pastel chalks, gouache and watercolour.

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Summer 2021: 8 Weeks: Tuition: $325 + Model Fee: $20 = Total: $345

TSA will deliver this course using ZOOM. Prior to the course session, you will receive an invitation for the session(s) via email. You'll need a laptop, desktop or tablet, internet connection with good bandwidth and headset (either wired or wireless). We recommend that you set up a free ZOOM account and be familiar with ZOOM prior to the class beginning.  Here is a link to help you get started: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697

Notes: Tom Campbell, a Toronto-based painter (now based in Stratford, ON), has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1989, with teaching stints at Sanford Fleming College, Sheridan College and the ROM. Since 2000, he has also travelled to the Aegean island of Ikaria every other spring to teach at the Ikarian Cultural Centre. Campbell had his first major one-man show at Gallery Stratford in 1985, won the Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery prize for painting and joined the stable of artists at the Bau-Xi Gallery (Toronto and Vancouver). More recently, other projects of interest have included painting the giant shipwreck mural for John Greyson’s feature film Zero Patience and painting a CD cover for alternative pop band Stars. On television, he was featured in “Artists in the Urban Environment” for Spectrum and Star Portraits, which aired on Bravo. His most recent exhibitions have been in Ottawa at the Galleria St Laurent + HilI and in C Word (Craft in the Fine Arts) curated by Richard Mongiat at The Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto.