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DECEMBER 2025
Workshop Reports continued
‘Life Painting - The clothed Figure’: 2 day workshop in September with James Budden
James is one of our regular and most popular Tutors, well known by some from ‘Sherborne Arts’. This
was a two-day course as James needed to take the group through a very detailed and exacting set of
practices, demonstrating and building up the process bit by bit whilst being supportive and encouraging
at the same time. Painting from Life requires a high level of concentration, particularly if one is unfamiliar with the ‘genre’. He brought Sophie with him who is a very experienced and elegant ‘life’ model.
The feeling at the end of the two days was generally one of exhaustion, but also of renewed energy and
knowledge, ready to put a whole new set of skills into practice.
As one of the group so aptly wrote afterwards:
“Thank you for organising a fabulous workshop. I don’t think I have ever done anything (art-wise) that was so
di昀케cult but I loved it and feel energised. James is such a brilliant art teacher he stretches you, but in a good way.
You understand what he wants you to achieve, shows you what good looks like and then how to best achieve it.”
Another one wrote:
“We had a fantastic two days with James. Sophie, the model was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt so
much.”
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