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EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE‍

CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES‍

NEXT WEEK!

FIGURE, FRILLS & FASHION

Join Katie for a 3-day course that will kick start your year of creativity in style

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Here at the Seawhite Studio we are determined to make 2025 a year of artistic adventures; delivering innovative and inspiring courses that will ignite your creative fires and keep them burning well beyond the duration of each course. In the coming weeks we'll be sharing detailed descriptions of courses in our spring programme, but -  if like us - you can't wait,  read on to find out more about a fantastic new course that Katie Sollohub is delivering next week at the studio!

Working with the wonderful Eve, who will be dressed in her own dynamic and inspirational costumes, Katie will be transforming the Seawhite Studio into a catwalk for three days.  Figure, Frills & Fashion represents a wonderful opportunity to become immersed in figure painting and drawing, with the added dimension of fabric and all the colour, contour and pattern that it offers.   It is a  gorgeous jewel-like course that is guaranteed to offer fresh ideas about what working from the human form is all about.  There are still places available on this course,  so why not seize the day and join Katie and Eve for what promises to be a brilliant start to your artistic year!

FIGURE, FRILLS & FASHION

An Expressive Painting Workshop

With Katie Sollohub at the Seawhite Studio

8 – 10 January 2025

£330‍

Image: Eve modeling her costume creation (Emily Ball)‍‍

Image: Painting the Clothed Figure (Eve), Emily Ball

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 “What I love about this course is the personality of Eve coming through in the clothes she wears, and how she wears them. There is life and movement in every pose, and every painting. Each person’s response to the subject is part of the conversation and dance between artist, sitter, and the paint. It is a joy.” ~ Katie‍

Painting from the clothed figure means looking at colour, texture and pattern as much as form and flesh. In this course, Katie will encourage you to celebrate the way fabric adorns the figure: how it changes as it wraps around form, offers glimpses of flesh, how the features of the face emerging from folds and frills.‍

Inspired and shaped by Emily’s daughter Eve – who is currently in her second year of Theatre and Costume Design at Wimbledon College of Art –  this course  will feature outfits and costumes that Eve has created specifically for the Seawhite Studio. As the clothed model, Eve will work with her creations to create poses that emphasise the relationship between the human form and the fabric that enrobes it.

 “I love how the colour and pattern of fabrics can give form and structure to a painting: falling in folds of drapery; hugging the figure, or moving wildly and freely like a riotously frilly feather boa.  Clothes are an extension of the body, and an expression of the person inside them. We fashion ourselves in particular ways.”

~ Katie‍

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Image: Eve modeling her costume creation (Emily Ball)‍‍

Throughout the course, Katie will refer to artists such as Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard, Chantal Joffe, Alice Neal, and Jennifer Packer for inspiration.  Using innovative creative processes you will make a series of quick studies from the figure in movement, as a warm up; reacquainting yourself with the body as a subject using the fluidity of paint to express its lyrical  dance-like qualities.  You will then start 2 or 3 longer paintings in which you will start to use the language of paint to describe the texture, direction and weight of cloth; how it shrouds, conceals, and reveals the form underneath.

Images:  Drawing the Clothed Figure (Eve); Painting the  Clothed Figure (Eve), Emily Ball‍

As with all her courses, Katie will encourage you to play and experiment, so that you are not relying simply on observation.  As a result  the paintings you begin to make will be fresh and exciting, open to change.‍‍

Image: Figure and Fabric course, taught by Katie Sollohub with Eve as model, 2022‍

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