Join us for a workshop designed to provide you with an introduction to portrait painting, completed from a reference image with tuition and guidance along the way.

Over the course of the day, you will learn to complete a portrait painting through the development of your observational drawing skills, your painting technique, and your understanding of colour and colour mixing.

This workshop will place a focus on the understanding of light and shadow, proportion, and form, bringing our own individual expression along the way. While artist, Luke Thompson guilds you through the philosophy of seeing as an artist and understanding the main fundamentals of portraiture through paint.

Luke Thompson is representational painter, predominantly working with portraits, the figure, and still life. He works with traditional methods of oil painting and charcoal drawing and looks to capture the narrative of nature as it is seen and experienced with a focus on light, shadow and form.

We are super excited to welcome Luke back to Left Bank to host his popular workshop within our beautiful building.

You can find out more about Luke's work at www.lukethompsonart.com

This workshop will be a day at Left Bank from 10am-3:30pm and workshop materials will be provided for the session, including canvas, brushes, acrylic paints. If you do already have some materials or paints, you'd like to use you are more than welcome to bring them along.

We will be providing an A2 canvas board for everyone, however, should you like to bring along a canvas to work on that is fine! All other materials are provided too, you will find more info about the materials provided and what to bring if you are using your own on the ticket link.

The café bar will be open all day for lunch, snacks and drinks and there will be plenty of breaks. If you would really like to come but are unable to pay the full fee, please contact sue@leftbankleeds.org.uk to apply for a discounted place.

**Please note, these tickets are non-refundable**