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Tuesday Evening classes - 8 x classes Term June 4th to August 27th
8 x Tuesday evening art classes to study Oil painting, drawing and watercolor .
Use your 8 passes over 13 weeks in the summer term on any Tuesday evening from June 4th - August27th between (18:00-20:45) No booking of dates required, just turn up! This allows people to be on holidays etc. during the summer and still do all their 8 sessions.
Suitable for all levels and interests. Work in a collective atmosphere while exploring individual artistic goals and interests. Clients use these classes to gradually increase their knowledge in a given area, create portfolio of work etc Book as often as you want throughout the year! The Tuesday classes will be ongoing all year round so you can continue to develop at your own pace in Portraiture, Landscapes, the figure and abstraction.
This booking is valid for Tuesday evenings only for the full Term June 4th to August 27th.
These bookings are non transferable, refundable and cannot be taken on other studio days. Please book Wednesday and Saturdays separately.
Weekly Classes - Wednesday & Saturdays all year round
Date/ Time - This is a very popular booking with our regulars & beginners who come all year round. Join anytime and start your journey of creating art with us at your own pace. Included in this booking is 4 x 3 hour sessions in the studio
Choose your own dates on any Wednesdays/ Saturdays Over any 4 week period.
Simply use 2 sessions for a full day booking, time 10am-4pm which we recommend for all new comers and use 1 x 3 hour session for a single booking.
Time Options -
Wednesdays double class (2 x 3hour sessions) 10-4 or single class - 10-1 or 1-4
Saturdays double class (2 x 3hour sessions) 10-4 or single class 10-1 or 1-4
Materials Included - Oil paint, medium, drawing materials & paper.( You can get canvas and brushes at the studio or bring your own)
Skill Level - suited to all levels
Conditions of Booking - Please book all your sessions within any 4 week period all year round . Provide all dates at time of booking in box below.
We advise people to do a mixture of full day - double sessions 10am-4pm (6 hours long) and single sessions 3 hours long if you want to get the full benefit of training in the studio. Some clients can only do 3hour sessions this is fine and we adjust training for this but try to do 10-4 double session for your first date with us as there is alot to take on in your first day.
CONTINUING TO STUDY IN EAST COAST ART STUDIOS
When you complete this initial set of classes we would advise you to simply rebook more EVENING CLASSES or DAYTIME CLASSES on Wednesdays & Saturdays. This is the main way most of our clients study with us all year round. You come and go as suits your schedule. We also recommend you do the drawing course as drawing underpins all portraiture.
Intensive art course
Date/ Time - available all year round attend all studio classes available on any Wednesday & Saturday -Time 10-4 , 0ver any 1-2 month period.
Materials Included - Oil paint, medium, drawing materials and 3 canvas.
Skill Level - suited to all levels
Conditions of Booking - Please indicate your start date all other dates can be booked when suits you or book all in advance if you prefer.
The package includes:
- An initial 1-to-1 session 3 hour session
- 4 x Wed group painting/drawing session
- 4 x Sat group painting/drawing session
- 1 x Dublin museum visit (2- 3 hours)
- 4 canvas included - 2 x 30x 40cm 2 x 40x50cm
- materials included - use of oil paints and medium and all drawing materials.
At the time of your booking - You can call us to discuss the intensive program and your dates or please email your start date on any Wednesday or Saturday. We will email you to arrange your private class.
Oil Painting for Beginners 2 day Workshop - July
Date/ Time - July 2024 - 6th and 7th Saturday and Sunday
Materials - all materials provided
Skill Level - suited to beginners
If you want to try your hand at oils for the first time or refresh your skills this is the workshop for you. All material are included, brushes, paint and canvas. This course offers an introduction to the Alla Prima technique in the Impressionist style. Learn to paint landscape or still life by using underpainting / color wash techniques in the first layer and thicker paint in the 2nd layer. This is a great introduction to understanding some principles of impressionism and expressionism. These techniques are paramount to understanding all forms of painting, whether classical or contemporary. Learn to develop your brushwork and to practice the creation of texture, tone, weight, shadow, temperature and alla prima techniques develop the artist's ability to sketch in oil painting quickly and to render landscapes and still-life's with skill and beautiful brushwork.
The workshop includes live demonstration by Eoin Llewellyn, as well as ongoing assistance with your work and answers to any questions that arise as you are painting over the 2 days. The workshop hours (10:00-16:00 includes a one-hour break for lunch).
CONTINUING TO STUDY IN EAST COAST ART STUDIOS
When you complete this initial workshop we would advice to join the EVENING CLASSES or the DAYTIME CLASSES , INTENSIVE COURSE on Wednesdays & Saturdays. In these sessions, you can develop your practice throughout the year and focus on whatever subjects and techniques are of interest to you, either in contemporary or classical painting and drawing. We also recommend you do the drawing course as drawing underpins all portraiture.
Foundation of Drawing- June Sat -Sun 8th & 9th 10am-4 pm2 day course
June Sat -Sun 8th & 9th 2 day course
Time 10am - 4pm
Skill Level - All Level
Materials - all materials provided.
- please email for next course or join our weekly classes and study drawing and painting in those.
Foundations of Drawing offers an exciting introduction to both drawing and to East Coast Art Studio's philosophy to learning art. You can study drawing in our weekly classes but if you want to do it as part of a 2 day course this is perfect for you. Through the close study and appreciation of drawing techniques of artists such as Michelangelo, Egon Schiele, Degas, Watteau, Käthe Kollwitz, Picasso, Giacometti and Marlene Dumas, we come to understand a hidden language. This language is the mystery of drawing, not academic drawing, but a line that can be harnessed to infuse an emotive reality in one’s work.
The study of drawing involves exploring line, weight, pressure, focus, depth and temperature. We emulate the surface qualities of excellent drawing from the breadth of art’s history. Foundations of Drawing starts you on this journey of discovery from the halls of art history: with practice this can lead you to your own personal style.
In the first of two full day sessions, students receive live demonstrations of technique and then do a study of a Bargue plates to understand how to break shape down to straight lines, and to learn how to create diffused value systems. In the second session students undertake a study of a Degas figurative drawing in charcoal. In the third session students practice a study of a John Singer Sargent portrait. In the final session students create their own drawing based upon the techniques they find of most interest.
Past students have found this class very rewarding and appreciated having an environment in which they learned quickly and in a relaxed way. This programme sets a great foundation for both home study and continued practice in the East Coast Art Studios. Simply go on to book the foundation course for beginners and intermediate can book any of the 4 day painting courses or focus on drawing and book further studio days and study all year round.
Turning Heads - National Gallery
Understanding Paintings and how to apply research to your work.
Sunday: May 19th
Time: 2-4
Cost of tour: 25 euro per person Pay below
Purchase your ticket for entry to show separately to booking tour.
Insure to purchase soon to guarantee a slot as they only let 120 in at a time.
Booking Link -
https://nationalgallery.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873640987/events/128500412
Bring small camera or phone camera and sketch book with 2x pencils, sharpener and putty rubber.
A number of students have asked will I do a tour of the Turning Heads show in the National Gallery Ireland. This is one of my areas of expertise. I just love some of the paintings in this show and many of you are learning the very techniques and palette used! Teaching creatives how to examine paintings and explore the layers and strata that create the luminous varied surfaces of various periods throughout the past 500 years. We will explore glazing, Sfumato, underpainting, grisaille, different palettes. We will also touch on composition and how to do quick sketches from paintings in the gallery and how to utilise what you learn and to bring back to your home studio and apply in your own work. Places are limited so book early. You can also buy a ticket for a friend who may find it of interest.
Highlights of Show -
"On view in the Beit Wing from 24 February to 26 May 2024, this exhibition features works by Dutch and Flemish artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who were exponents of the tronie – an intriguing painting of a head. Paintings include Study of an Old Woman by Rubens, The Laughing Man, 1629-1630, by Rembrandt and The Man with the Golden Helmet, c. 1650 from the circle of Rembrandt. Vermeer’s most exquisitely detailed tronie, Girl with the Red Hat, c.1665-1667, is an exhibition highlight."- National Gallery
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/turning-heads-rubens-rembrandt-and-vermeer