Upcoming Classes!

I'm excited about these upcoming classes! Check them out on my website here. 

Oil Still Life Painting Workshop July 18th to 22nd, 2016

I'm getting excited about my upcoming summer still life painting workshop! The workshop is July 18th to 22nd. 5 days of painting.
There are still a couple of spaces in the workshop open, check out my site for all the info

Classes

I have two figure classes starting soon at my school in Victoria BC as well as a portrait drawing class for youth.


Block-in Figure Drawing starts April 28th, Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm
The block-in is a very important step in drawing well, it's the foundation and core that everything is built upon.

Long Pose Figure Drawing starts May 15th Sunday evenings 6:30 to 9:30pm.
One pose for the five weeks. One of my favorite classes and a great class to refine and develop your drawing ability.

Youth Portrait Drawing starts May 2nd. Mondays 4:15 to 5:45pm. For youth age 11-17. If you know of someone this age who is looking for a focused, skill based drawing class, please feel free to pass this info on to them.

For a full list check out my class schedule here

 

Figure drawing classes starting in February at Noah Layne Academy of Realist Art

I have two figure drawing classes starting in February at my school in Victoria BC. Noah Layne Academy of Realist Art.

Long Pose Figure Drawing Class

  

 

Sunday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm
Feb. 21st to March 20th

More info

 

Short Pose Figure Drawing

 Thursday Evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Feb. 25th to March 17th

More info 

 

New Portrait Drawing Classes

I have two portrait drawing classes starting in November at my Academy.

Portrait drawing Nov. 12th to Dec. 10th Thursday evenings 6:30-9:30pm. 

More info here. 

 

Portrait Drawing for Youth 11-17. Monday afternoons 4:15 to 5:45pm.

Starts Nov. 23rd. More info here.

Portrait Drawing Classes

I have two portrait drawing classes starting soon at my school. One for adults and one for youth.
Follow the links below for more info and to register on my website.

Portrait Drawing Class

Thursday Evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm

May 28th to June 25th

More info here

Portrait Drawing for Youth 11-17

 

Monday Afternoons 4:15 - 5:45 pm
  May 25th to June 29th

 

More info here  

Drawing classes

I have two drawing classes starting at the end of March at my school.

Long Pose Figure Drawing Class

Class demo

 Sunday Evenings 6-9pm

March 22nd to April 26th
  No class Easter Sunday April 5th

 

More info 

Portrait Drawing Class

 

 

Thursday Evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm
March 26th to April 23rd

 

More info 

Still Life Oil Painting Workshop

I have a weekend Still Life painting workshop coming up December 13rd and 14th 11-5:30pm each day.

The focus will be on technique and not a finished painting. Both days I will demo from 11-1. There will be a break for lunch and then the students will work from 1:45-5:30pm with breaks as needed.
More info here

Painting in NYC this summer

 

 

Working on a still life in the studio

Painting in progress

New Portrait Drawing Class

My next portrait drawing starts November 13th at my school. Check it out here for more info. 

Recent Class Demo

Up Coming Figure Drawing Classes

I have two new figure drawing classes starting in October!
Check them out below and on my website here

Block-In Figure Drawing Class

Thursday Evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm  

October 16th to November 6th 

Please register by October 10th

More info here

Long Pose Figure Drawing Class

Sunday Evenings 6-9pm

October 19th to November 9th

Please register by Oct 14th

More info here

Portrait Drawing Demo

Here are a few photos from my portrait drawing demo at my school opening!

Talking about Form and Cast shadows

The importance of looking at your work in a mirror, also good for checking out how good you look ;) There is a story there for sure....

How our eyes fool us all the time with this optical illusion 

And the magic bowl for warding of aliens and showing form light and highlights

So shiny!

The model may need a break but I keep going, or sometimes it's time to take over and do it all, model, draw, and fly the airplane home

Using mats with holes in them to isolate value and compare them. Light on the chin compared to forehead, which is lighter??

How the placement of the ear relates to the tilt of the head. Or what is this thing on my head, it was not there this morning?

Check out these stylish shoes from the good people at Industry of All Nations

Wrapping it all up and signing up the masses!

Kickstarter for travel to NYC!

I've started a Kickstarter to help fund my travel to compete at the Grand Central Atelier 's Still Life Painting Competition at the end of July in New York! If you have the time please give it a look. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482930917/still-life-painting-competition-at-gca-in-new-york

Thanks for your support! 

Still Life Painting Competition!

I'm excited to report that I've been selected as one of ten artists to compete at the Grand Central Atelier's inaugural still life painting competition this July in New York City, July 27th to August 1st. Each of the ten artists will be painting a still life from life in NYC and competing for a $10,000 top prize!

You can read more about the competition on the GCA's website here.
You will be able to follow the day by day progress of the competition on the GCA's Facebook and Blog.  

Landsacpe workshops!

I'm teaching a couple landscape workshops in June.

Landscape Drawing
June 14th and 15th

Landscape Painting
June 28th and 29th

Check out the all the info on my website here!

Portrait Drawing Video!

I had fun videotaping a drawing I did the other day. Enjoy!






My next portrait drawing class starts April 17th. Check it out here. 

Oil Portrait Painting Class

My next oil portrait painting class starts April 6th and runs weekly until May 25th 7 classes, no class Easter Sunday April 20th. All the info is here on my classes webpage. http://noahlayne.com/OilPortraitPaintingClass.html

Right now there is one maybe two spaces still left in the class. Drop me an email if you are interested in this class or have any questions.

Class poster

My demo painting from my last oil portrait painting class

My last 7 week portrait painting wrapped up last week. My next one starts April 6th, there is still some space in the class. All the info for the next class is here.  

I paint alongside my students in these classes. I start each class with a short 30 minute demo and then help students and paint on my demo painting time allowing. By working alongside my students they get to see how my painting develops and how I solve different things in my painting.

Here are photos of my demo at the end of each week.

  

Week One. We worked on drawing, getting the contour and major form and cast shadows

Week Two. After transferring the drawing to a toned canvas we started to block in the local color using a full palette of colors

Week Three. Here we started to finish small areas by carefully observing the way light falls and wraps around forms. I managed to get the nose to eye to cheek painted.

Week Four. Conditioning to model the form

Week Five. Finished the ear and blocked in the color of the hair.

Week Six. Finished the hair.

Week Seven. Finished the sweater and finished the painting! 

New Workshop!

I'm excited to offer a week long Oil Portrait Painting Workshop in Victoria BC this August!
Here are the details.

Oil Portrait Painting Workshop
August 19th to 23rd!
Please register by August 10th.
5 Days, 10:00am to 4:30pm each day.

In this week long workshop Noah will show you how he goes about painting a portrait in oil. 
Working from a live clothed model, he will discuss and show his approach to colour while working with a layered method of painting.

He will talk and demonstrate how to see and record shapes clearly and simply, and model form by carefully observing the properties of light. 

Noah will teach the use of plumb lines, comparative measurement, and tilt angle to find correct proportions.

Each morning Noah will demonstrate from 10-12.
There will be a 30 minute break for lunch and then the students will paint on their work until 4:30pm 


Lots of demos and individual instruction!
Some drawing experience recommended.

Cost $525 includes model fees and GST
Materials not included.
Small class size 7 max students, register now!
To register visit http://www.noahlayne.com/Classes.html#PortriatPainting

New Drawings and Classes

Here are a few new figure drawings from my class.


My current February demo.



Block-in session 1

Session 2, starting to turn the form!

My January demo.

Session 3

Session 4

I'm excited to be offering a 4 week figure drawing block-in class starting March 14th.  More info here.

My next long pose figure class starts March 26th. More info here.