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Dates: Wednesdays, July 2 & 9, 2025
Time: 9:30-12:00 AM Pacific Time, 12:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:30-8:00 PM London Time*
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylic
From Rembrandt to William Nicholson, painters have loved to describe shiny, metal surfaces with paint. Renaissance painters used real gold leaf to conjure up halos but it was really with the invention of oil paint that painting metal came into its own. Oil paint has a unique lusciousness which lends itself to the task. Shiny materials such as polished silver or buffed up brass, however, can be intimidating to paint. Where do you start with all the complicated reflections? Luckily, there are some simple approaches that can help enormously. Join Laura Smith as she shares her secrets to depicting reflective surfaces. You will be guided through the process on this two week class and come out the other side relishing the chance to paint silver in the future.
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$150.00
Laura Smith (b.1980) is a painter living and working in London. She completed her BA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003 and went on to win the Richard Ford Award and the Drawing Prize during her studies on The Drawing Year at The Prince’s Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) in 2004. She graduated from her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2012, winning the Clare Winsten Memorial Award. Laura was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize in 2011 and has recently shown at the Mall Galleries, Jerwood Space, Flowers Gallery, Lubomirov-Easton and the Royal Academy of Arts.
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