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Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Paint this cheerful Xmas scene and learn the techniques of poster artists as well as portrait painting, caricature and luminosity.

Santa and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

On Christmas Eve Santa Claus flies from the North Pole with his magic reindeer delivering presents to all the good girls and boys!

Why does Rudolph have a red nose? Well, he enjoys a bit of Xmas cheer!

Special features

• 60 x 90cm canvas (purchase the canvas when you book the lesson)
• Class size limited to only 4 people

These canvases at 60 x 90 cm are about four times the area of our standard 35 x 45 cm canvas. So the lesson is only suited to those who can stand and work for four hours.

Sketching Santa

Starting with a stick figure, we find Cezanne's basic shapes.

Rudolph gets the same treatment.

We see how to take the basic face template and make it happy.

Student's Santa

There's no drawing on the canvas! No no no, or rather "Ho Ho Ho!", the students are learning to paint, compose and modify their ideas directly and quickly onto the canvas with a brush.

Starting very loosely we blocked in the basic colours and the big shapes.

By the 4th hour we are getting into detail.

Penny's Santa, Xmas 2018.

Sophia's Santa Xmas 2018.

What will we learn in this painting?

• Caricature
• Figure Drawing
• Hard and soft edges
• Luminosity
• Painting while standing
• Pop Art
• Portrait Painting
• Poster Art
• Xmas themes

Paint Santa!

Leaf of the Crepe Myrtle

Capture the glow of a sunset hitting the leaves of the Crepe Myrtle.

The leaf of the Crepe Myrtle - image ©2018 Peter Inglis

Click here to read about the other painting in this set: Glowing flower of the Crepe Myrtle.

What will we learn in this painting?

• Depth
• Focal Point
• Hard and soft edges
• Impasto
• Impressionist style
• Painting from a Photograph
• Photo-realism
• Texture

Paint this!