Gary Long

Excellent course! Gary imparts his knowledge of painting in a calm and insightful way. his own work in there to see and you can learn so much from looking at his work. Gouache painting was a brilliant introduction to oil painting. Thank you Gary.

Inspiring location – great history in the building and school course followed the description in the brochure. I overcame my fear of the palette knife and charcoal sketching. I also built on existing skills and experiences.

Amazing tutor, can’t wait to come again and do more work, getting better every time through the help of the tutor and experience was wonderful overall too.

Gary Long was fantastic, I learnt so much about colour and mixing colour, composition, how to go through the process of stages from the drawing to the actual painting. His demonstrations were brilliant from colour mixing to how to paint the pictures. He gave us all feedback and was encouraging and motivating. His wife Pat was also brilliant making sure we were OK, keeping us stocked up with biscuits and dealing with our queries and always happy and positive. It was like we were part of there family for the time we were together.

Good mixture of demonstration and own painting time. Good location and Gary’s experience of previous visits meant we found interesting sites to sketch and draw. Lots of materials available. Good indoor space with easels. I was well supported and looked after by Gary and his lovely wife. Nice balance of days off to explore the region.

The studio space was wonderful plenty of room to spread out and walk around. Having the tutor at hand was helpful and reassuring.

I really enjoyed the course and got a lot from it. It was a delight to be immersed in the whole art experience at Verrocchio. Thanks to Gary’s experienced tuition and support and his wife’s excellent organisational skills and support it all ran smoothly and made it a wonderful experience.

It has meant the world to me to get this genuine encouragement and guidance to ease me back into some semblance of trying to practice.

Gary shows in depth how he mixes colours, and demonstrates the use of palette knife. He also showed lots of his paintings at the beginning to inspire us and help us to visualise what we were aiming for.

The space and facilities in the school were excellent, great equipment and light with individual stations. The tutor’s knowledge of colour mixing and creating a varied palette was excellent.

These online sessions are consistently fabulous, and this one did not disappoint. Gave me an insight into Paula Rego’s work as well as Gary’s thoughtful and insightful commentary as he paints and draws his wonderful images.

I liked everything about the course, it was what it said in the course description. Thank you, I enjoyed spending time in such a lovely warm encouraging environment.