Experimental Still Life - Self-Paced
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Module 1 - Welcome & Let's draw

Housekeeping
Module Plan
Materials list
Types of acrylic paint
Resources - tips- reading
Artist Mindset and Meditation
What inspires you right now?
Setting up a still life to work from
Gather Objects
Drawing Exercises - part one
More drawing exercises - part two
The value of reflecting on your work
Bonus video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus video 4
Module 2 - Composition and Colour

Module Plan
Principles and design elements cheat sheet
Composition - films to watch and a warm up exercise
Exercise 1 - Composing with values
Exercise 2 - assessing values using colourful paintings
Colour notes
Exercise 3, 4, 5 and 6 - colour mixing and value studies
Exercise 7 - painting with complementary colours
Exercise 8 - spatial awareness with colour
Bonus video - painting without black
Painting with principles and elements in mind
Exercise 9 - make a painting
Preparing for module 3
Bonus videos
Bonus Video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus Video 4
Module 3 - Let's explore

Module Plan
Exercise 1 and 2 - backgrounds, lines and shapes
Exercise 3, 4 and 5 - using a Gelli plate and monoprinting
Exercise 6 - collage
Exercise 7, 8 and 9 - three ways of painting on paper
Exercise 10 - painting without brushes
Exercise 11 - painting on cardboard
Exercise 12 - giant sketch painting
Exercise 13, 14 and 15 - painting over different values of background
Bonus demo - painting over an interesting background
Preparing for module 4
Bonus Video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus Video 4
Module 4 - Everyone can paint a lemon

Module Plan
Introduction
Inspiring paintings
Exercise 1 - how will you paint a lemon?
Exercise 2 - painting the light
Exercise 3 - still life as self portrait
Exercise 4 - the hidden beauty of the mundane
Exercise 5 - the feeling of flowers
Exercise 6 - still life with views
Exercise 7 - disrupted realism
Exercise 8 - stylisation
Process note - something to think about if you are already scaling up
Bonus Video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus Video 4
Module 5 - Painting from the inside out

Module Plan
What does imagined still life look like?
Exercise 1 - paint what emerges
Exercise 2 - visions of vessels
Edited live session where I worked on exercise 2
Exercise 3 - floral adventure
Exercise 4 - memory game
Optional project - creating a mini series
An edited Q+ A from 2021
Exercise 5 - Bringing it all together
Bonus Video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus Video 4
Module 6 - Let's abstract

Overview
A film to watch and Exercise 1 - where do you see abstraction in your work now?
Exercise 2 - continue to work out what abstraction for you is by painting from life
Exercise 3 - printing with the Gelli plate in an abstract way
Exercise 4 - the spaces in between
Exercise 5 - sophisticated abstraction
Exercise 6 - let yourself be loose
Exercise 7- line more than anything
Exercise 8 - organic abstraction
Exercise 9 - if colour were the main subject
Abstract Painting with Sally-Anne Ashley
Bonus Video 1
Bonus Video 2
Bonus Video 3
Bonus Video 4
Module 7 - Let's Go Big!

Module Plan
Inspiration
Exercise 1 - analyse, analyse
Priming your large surfaces
Planning your colour palette and paintings
Exercises 2 and 3 - warm up to scaling up
Exercise 4 - covering large surfaces in different ways
Exercise 5 - intuitive painting on an old canvas
Exercise 6 - painting on raw canvas
Exercise 7 - blind painting as the starting point
Exercise 8 - make the biggest painting you can in a week
Starting on a few paintings or even a series...
The messy middle
Nearing the end?
Bonus Videos
Module 8 - Practical Tips

Before you varnish - photograph your work
Do you want to make prints of your work?
Varnishing
Framing
Studio and business practice
Making money from your work
Final Thoughts

A film to watch and Exercise 1 - where do you see abstraction in your work now?

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