Learn to See: Painting with Anton Chapman
This five-week course invites you to slow down and truly look. Through guided observation and thoughtful painting exercises, you will learn to see beyond assumption — noticing tone, colour, proportion and spatial relationships with greater clarity and confidence.
Working from carefully selected subjects, you’ll explore how light shapes form, how colour shifts across a surface, and how subtle adjustments can transform a painting. Suitable for beginners and those wishing to refresh their foundations, this course strengthens the essential skills that underpin all strong painting practice.
A focused and rewarding introduction to seeing — and therefore painting — more perceptively.
Materials list
Learn to See: Drawing with Anton Chapman
Specialist art shops are the best option and will provide student discounts if you mention that you are
attending the school. The stores we recommend are:
• Studio Art Supplies Crummer Road, Grey Lynn
• The French Art Shop Taylors Road, Morningside (Beside Briscoes)
• Gordon Harris Gillies Avenue, Newmarket and Symonds Street, Auckland Central
• Takapuna Art Supplies Helensville or online
• Pencils – HB, 2B, 4B, 6B
• Willow Charcoal – Medium
• Compressed Charcoal – Medium
• Charcoal pencil - Medium
• Black Indian ink and a dip pen with a sketching nib (or bamboo pens)
Paint:
acrylics or oils in a selection of colours: e.g.
warm red (cadmium scarlet), warm yellow (cadmium yellow), warm blue (ultramarine),
cool red (crimson), cool yellow (lemon yellow), cool blue (pthalo, cobalt or cerulean),
yellow ochre (oxide), raw umber, black, and white.
• Appropriate painting mediums: gel, gloss or matt mediums for acrylics.
Brushes:
• Long handled Firm Hog hair - flat small (5mm), medium (10mm), large (20-30mm)
• Firm synthetic round brush (with a nice point). Size 12
• Palette knife or spatula.
• 2 x Bulldog clips
• Low tack masking tape.
• 1 x A4 & 1 x A3 (or thereabouts) canvas or canvas board
• Old shirt or apron
Browne School of Art also have a selection of basic materials available for purchase: paper in A1 / A2 sheets: newsprint, cartridge, sugar grey, wet strength, bulldog clips, pencils, charcoal, erasers, white chalk, black ink.
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Standard Booking
Online payment includes payment fee of 2.9% + NZ$0.30. Offline payment details on confirmation page.
Course ticket - for all 5 dates.
Available until Tue 26 May 10am
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NZ$285.00 | |
Standard Booking + $10.00 BSA Student Fund - Donation
A $10 donation will go to our BSA Student Fund - helping those who are unwaged or under financial hardship (with a Community Services Card) to attend our courses.
Course ticket - for all 5 dates.
Available until Tue 26 May 10am
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NZ$505.00 |
Browne School of Art
194 Great North Road
Grey Lynn
Auckland
1021
