Developing your Portraiture skills: Live Zoom Course; 5- 26 Jan and 2nd Feb, 10am - 1pm(GMT)

5 x painting lessons looking at a wide range of portraiture techniques

£150 - to purchase this live online course, click one of the lessons below

About this course

From old to young, black to white, beautiful to…characterful; the world presents us with such a rich variety of wonderful faces to paint and this course will explore many of these exciting challenges and more. Looking at 5 different faces, Peter will demonstrate how he goes about painting them in his famous, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach.

During the 5 lessons, you will cover the following:

• Getting a painting off to a strong start

• How to move away from gridding, tracing or projecting and gain confidence with drawing with the brush

• Achieving accurate facial proportions with age-old measuring techniques used by the masters

• Mixing appropriate skin tones and colours without needing to spend a fortune on paint

• How to stop your portrait painting becoming too tight and overworked

• Capturing both likeness AND character in your portraits

• The differences between painting a child and an adult

What is included:

• 5 × 3 hour video lessons

• The ability to watch the lessons as many times as you need before Feb 2027.

• Detailed structured teaching notes that accompany each specific lesson.

• Excellent, high-quality reference images to work from - examples of the faces Peter will paint are above.

• Suggested materials list.

By the end of this course, you will have created at least 5 different portrait paintings (ones that Peter has not painted before).

Peter uses oil paints throughout this course, although this course would also be of benefit to those artists who prefer working in acrylics as Peter does talk about how he would use acrylics in some of the lessons.

How to join this class:

Click one of the lessons below to sign-up or sign-in. (You sign-up to this course by creating a username and password. These will be the details you enter each time you wish to watch one of the lessons. If you bought a course last year, please sign-in with the same details; you do not need to create a new account to purchase this new course).

Live lessons will begin each Monday morning, 10am - 1pm (UK time) from 5 Jan - 2 Feb 2026.

Each of the lesson pages (below) include everything you need to take part in each lesson, including the Zoom link to watch the lessons live, the 3 hour lesson video recording once the live lesson has taken place, the reference image Peter will be working from, materials list and the detailed accompanying class notes.

To buy this 5-lesson course, please click the first lesson below.