Name: Perceptions and Senses - A two day workshop
Start: 2025-08-24T09:00:00.000Z
Location: Dulwich Art Group & School

This is just a studio session, with no Zoom.
We will have a life model in the same pose for three hours in the afternoon, usually for two consecutive weeks.

This is an untutored session run by a professional painter who will always be happy to give advice.

Other than model breaks, usually every 25 minutes, we break for tea and cake at 3.30pm for twenty minutes.

Our studio is divided up into workstations or ‘positions’ and whilst each position has a good view of the model many artists prefer to be front and centre. (Actually, you often get a more interesting composition to the side of the room).
You can also just turn up at the studio on spec and find a place to paint.

Our studio has a light and friendly atmosphere. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, come and paint with us! We have a wonderful community of artists who join us each week.

Costs
From £20 – £25 per session

[More info and bookings here](https://www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk/product/saturday-morning-life-painting-drawing/)

Dulwich Art Group - Life Drawing & Painting in South London

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Saturday Afternoon Life Drawing & Painting LONG POSE

Dulwich Art Group & School

Monday, 21st of July 2025
7PM-9PM
£ 25

**Workshop leader: Audrey Fattouche**
**Study the human form in an atmospheric light and discover the chiaroscuro technique in art. ️**
Step into a world of dramatic shadows and soft light at our **Life Drawing by Candlelight** session — an evening where art meets atmosphere. This unique life drawing event invites artists of all levels to sketch a live figure model illuminated solely by the warm, flickering light of candles.

The subdued lighting will accentuate natural contours, casting dramatic highlights and deep shadows, perfect for exploring form, tone, and mood in your drawings. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, this session offers a rare opportunity to experience the intimacy and timeless beauty of candlelit figure drawing.

**🕯️ All materials and levels welcome. Basic supplies available. Relaxed, focused atmosphere.**

Join us for an unforgettable night of art and inspiration.

[Visit our website to learn more and sign-up](https://www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk/product/life-drawing-by-candlelight/)

Life Drawing by Candlelight

**21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th of August 2025**
10am – 4pm
*Beginner to advanced level*
£380

In this four day workshop, we will take a deeper look at the tone and temperature in a still life set up. Working from a series of ‘neutral’ compositions, we will look at how tone can be used to create light, drama, contrast or subtlety, and how the addition of colour leads us to ask questions about ‘temperature’. Clare will introduce a series of exercises working with limited palettes and complementary colours to help you to tune into the tonal relationships within your compositions and experiment with how temperature can alter the light or atmosphere.

In week one, we will work with white/cream/blue/brown setups, using a limited palette of Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue. In week two we will expand our colour palette to include violets and yellows.

**Points to note**
The workshop will run from 10am to 4.00pm with a break for lunch
You will need a surface to paint on, brushes, palette knife solvent, linseed oil or medium rag/kitchen roll and space to put your objects out and space to paint. We will start with some colour mixing, so have a few spare surfaces to work on (gessoed or primed paper is fine).

**Palette**
We will start with a limited palette in week one and then move on to a split primary palette in week two:

Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Titanium White
Alizarin Crimson (or Rose Madder)
Cadmium Red (or Scarlet Lake)
Ultramarine Blue
Phtalo or Prussian Blue
Cadmium Yellow
Cadmium Lemon (optional)

[Visit our website for more info and to sign-up](https://www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk/product/tone-and-temperature-with-clare-haward/)

Tone and Temperature in Still Life

A three day workshop for beginners and experienced artists exploring how perception is used to inform and energise painting.

**The workshop consists of two sessions:**
**Sunday 24th and Monday 25th of August**
**10.00am- 4.00pm (on-site)**

Painting life? Painting reality? Sounds like a beautiful yet impossible quest – how could one ever grasp on a flat surface, through fixed colours and shapes, an experience that is of multiple dimensions, woven through the senses, referencing outer worlds as much as inner consciousness? And yet, astounding paintings have been created – some that feel just right. What is it then? What informs those paintings that manage to go beyond representation, visual poems which move away from what we see and believe to know, connecting us instead with the mystery of our felt experience.

Throughout history, artists have tried to depict reality and made it more and more convincing thanks to break-through in techniques and modality of observation. Advances in technology regularly threaten to make art redundant and yet push artists to go beyond. We’re now finding ourselves in a time where our phone camera can take incredibly sharp pictures and AI has too started to emulate images. If these tools are now feeding us with an abundance of images, “capturing” what we see; maybe it’s time to move away from studious realism and to look into How we see and What we feel? It’s our chance to get curious about those fleeting and singular experiences, always with us yet most of the time over-looked and replaced by projections.

If you too feel curious, let’s get together on this 2-day workshop, dive into the here and now…and see if we can paint it! Through a range of playful and ambitious exercises, we’ll put our habits to the side for a moment (or forever!), observing anew, getting intrigued by how our vision works, how our inner mental world works, and explore ways to challenge our senses.

Expect to paint a lot, and above all to feel a lot. Working in a group will offer us the chance to discuss our varied experiences and get inspired by one another. The exercises we will have explored together will be in our artist tool box for life, whether with a brush in hand or just sitting on a bench, observing the world anew.

**Sunday**
What we observe, what we retain
Exercises on memory, painting with delay and repetition
Getting aware of what we remember gives us direct feedback into what we observe. Memory is a room beautifully filled with who we are, what moved us – tuning into that and learning how to strengthen this muscle.

**Monday**
Where do we observe from?
Thinking about viewpoint, movement and field of view.
If our experience goes beyond the visual movie going on in front of our eyes, how can we paint the source of this observation? What is this vision like anyway? What is blurry, what is sharp, what moves and gets distorted, what happens when we blink our eyes or relax our vision?

**[Info and bookings on our website](https://www.dulwichartgroup.co.uk/product/perceptions-and-senses-a-two-day-workshop/)**

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