Welcome to the Virtual Studio
Join our on-line community, take your skills to a new level with our expert guidance and tuition and connect with our vibrant community of members from around the world!
Whether you are a beginner or experienced artist, you’re in the right place!
Perhaps, you want to ‘loosen your style’, are taking your first tentative steps into painting & drawing, or are looking to continue your art-practice in the company of like-minded people?
Join our program of live online classes, or access our extensive video library of drawing & painting classes to progress your work in the comfort of your own home and time.
Your tutor, John Skelcher is an Academy trained painter, with over 30 years of painting and tuition experience. His in-class and on-line class program, provides a path-way for gaining mastery drawing and painting skills through continued, structured practice.
Beginner Drawing Course
This drawing course is a precursor class to the advanced drawing and painting class.
These weekly drawing and painting exercises, run at a comfortable pace. The aim is to challenge our hand to eye coordination and to practice our natural drawing abilities. This, will then lead into some introductory painting exercises that dovetail into the drawing exercises.
Topics covered-
Shape, line, tone, colour, texture, direction of light, rendering, shading, hatching.
Principles applied:
Perspective, proportion, placement
The challenges will vary each week and are designed to cover different areas of expertise that artists will require to then be able to join the advanced drawing and painting group.
The practice is valuable also, as it will assist your confidence when joining our Watercolour classes or in-person retreats.
Whilst will look at different drawing methods and styles, the guiding principles are always the same. Principles which the great master artists of the past have handed down for their students to be able to walk in their footsteps.
With regular, continued structured practice, you will gain mastery of drawing and painting.
Tuesday Evenings
7-8:30pm (UK) 8-9:30PM (CET) 2-3:30PM (ET)
Big Brush Challenge Watercolour Class
‘Let’s Loosen up’
This series of On-line Watercolour Classes, will let you loosen up your painting style and improve your flow for a seemingly effortless style.
Suitable for medium to advanced watercolourists, previous retreat attendees and anyone wanting to refine their watercolour skills from the comfort of their own home.
Sundays
3pm-5pm (UK) 4pm-6pm (CET) 10am-12pm(ET)
All classes are recorded for those who cannot part-take in person.