The Charles H. Cecil Studios offers a thorough training in the naturalistic tradition of drawing and painting from life.

Fundamental to the training is the sight-size technique, a practice that stems directly from the leading ateliers of nineteenth-century Paris.

This tradition extends back through the French and British Schools to masters such as Titian, Van Dyck and Velazquez.

Sight-size has been used by portrait painters since the seventeenth-century, including Reynolds, Lawrence and Sargent.