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Teaching Methods

Concept used by Lenkiewicz in his teaching included:

• Tone of the tone
• Colour of the colour
• Shape of the shape
• Seeing the whole

By following these excercises under Lenkiewicz's guidance, students acquired a basic grounding in techniques for accurate representation of tone, colour and shape together with a sensitivity to the way objects in the visual field interrelated.

When once asked if he had ever produced a written set of notes for his method of teaching the rudiments of figurative painting, Lenkiewicz stated that he liked to tailor the program for each individual student. The vital element was Lenkiewicz's astute judgment in criticizing other artist's work and the opportunity to correct bad habits in his pupils, based on a lifetime of artistic experience.

Lesson One

Lenkiewicz would often give new students the following exercise:

1. Small piece of hardboard (A3) primed black.
2. Group of small geometric object...rectangles, squares, spheres - Lightbulb box, toothpaste box, rubber ball will do.
3. Prime half of the objects black and half of the objects white.
4. Arrange objects and paint in black and white.
5. Paint for as long as you can bear...every night for weeks, months.
6. Easiest way is to keep repriming the same hardboard to start over again.
7. Use a 'claude' mirror to check tones (Claude mirror is a piece of glass painted black on one side... I use an old picture frame and prime one side black). And also told students to 'squint' (half-close) your eyes when looking at the subject to be painted, which helped to you to see increased contrast in the subject.
8. Once competent, prime one of the objects a colour and add back into the still life. Paint for as long as possible again (with only the one added colour while the rest of the objects are B&W).
9. After time add a second colour and repeat and so on.

There are other versions to this exercise where hardboard is split into two etc...

Former students include:

• Lucinda Arundell
• Piran Bishop
• Karen Ciambriello
• Louise Courtnell
• James Guy Eccleston
• David Gamble
• David Gray
• Handrew Morgan
• John Nash
• Diane Nevitt
• Nahem Shoa
• Lisa Stokes
• Joe Stoneman
• Yana Trevail
• Dan Wheatley