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Dates: Thursdays, July 24-August 7, 2025
Time: 10:00 am-12:30 pm Pacific Time, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eastern Time, 6:00 pm-8:30 pm UK Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylics
Are you looking for a way to bring depth and lustre to your paintings? Then this is the course for you! Over our three sessions, Mark Thompson will introduce his practice, breaking the process down into what can be both a fully formed process as well as the jumping off point into further exploration. Informed by the indirect methods of the old masters alongside contemporary knowledge and application, Mark will demonstrate the formation of an image from underpainting to glazing and scumbling. Over the weeks you will become familiar with the character of pigments and mediums, and learn not just which brush to choose, but how to wield it!
Week 1: Surfaces and Underpainting – choosing both a substate and a palette, understanding warms and cools, decoding source material.
Week 2: Pigments and Glazing – getting to grips with transparent and opaque pigments, optical mixing, choosing a medium, pushing energy into the surface.
Week 3: Developing the paint and moving forward – an exploration of scumbling techniques, which brushes work best, and allowing evolution into your practice.
Throughout the course, Mark will employ his passion for art history, using specific examples to illustrate methods and spark your desire for further learning. Whilst the course focuses on Oil, most methods can be translated to Acrylics.
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$225.00
Born in the Fenlands of Eastern England, Mark Thompson went on to study painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His early memories of the land informed his studies, and he continues to explore the inextricable link between landscape and memory in his current body of work. After completing his degree at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1997, he won first the Duveen and then the Rootstein Hopkins travel scholarships, which took him to Iceland, Norway and Finland. Mark’s experiences in these harsh Nordic landscapes inspired his first solo exhibition at the Proud Galleries in London.
Since that first show, Mark has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the Gilchrist Fisher Landscape Painting Award, the Villiers David Award, and most recently a Pouch Cove Foundation residency. Mark’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and America. His work is represented in public and private collections, including the Government Art Collection of Great Britain and Microsoft collections.
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