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Maximum class size 8. Easels, boards, chairs, and tables provided. Please bring your own painting materials - see list below.
The perfect opportunity to get started in oil painting. This course introduces a systematic approach, with exercises to build confidence and unleash the imagination. You will learn techniques relevant to all styles of painting and begin to develop your own style.
Course Programme:
Day 1 – Materials, Colour & Basic Techniques
Part 1: Materials, Colour & Foundations
Introduction to Materials
· Oil paint and how to make your own oil paint
· Brushes: types, sizes, fibres, and price differences
· Supports and grounds (canvas vs. wooden panels); why sealing the support is important
· How to prepare your own palette
· Mediums and cleaners
· Easels
Practical Work
· Creating a colour wheel (primary, secondary, and tertiary colours)
· Understanding warm and cool colour families
· Exploring value and chroma
Part 2: Brushstrokes & Basic Oil Techniques
· Learning different brushstrokes to create shapes and suggest objects
· Choosing pigments to create a summer colour palette
· Painting simple objects (time permitting)
Materials: Three canvas panels (30 × 40 cm)
Day 2 – Form, Light & Still Life
Part 1: Form, Perspective & Light
· Basic forms in everyday life: sphere, cube, pyramid, cone, etc.
· Basic perspective principles
· Drawing a circle in perspective
· Light and its colour
· Using tone and light to create the illusion of three-dimensional objects
· Drawing and painting a simple object in one colour
Part 2: Still Life in Colour – Session 1
· How to begin a still life painting
· Using a viewfinder to improve composition
· Importance of accurate drawing
· Preparatory sketches in tone and colour
· Underpainting in colour
· Blocking in the main shapes with washes
Materials: two canvas panels (25x30 cm)
Day 3 – Developing & Finishing the Painting
Part 1: Still Life in Colour – Session 2
· Correcting the drawing
· Simplifying tonal masses
· Avoiding over-focusing on one object
· The colour of the light source and its influence on hues
· Finishing the still life
Part 2: Seascape Master Copy (Time Permitting)
· Seascape using a palette knife
· Landscape composition
· Mixing blues and greys for sky and sea
· Alla prima technique and impasto
Materials: one canvas panel (25×30 cm)
Please contact us with any questions
🎨 Essential Materials for the Course
Surfaces
Three canvas panels (30 × 40 cm)
two canvas panels (25×30 cm)
Brushes:
Range of good quality hog for oil painting long filberts and flats from number 4 to 10
(long handle)
Oil Paints:
· Cadmium Yellow
· Yellow Ochre
· Cadmium Red
· Alizarin Crimson
· Ultramarine Blue
· Phthalo Blue
· Raw Umber
· Titanium White
Other Materials:
· Sansodor (odourless solvent) Please do not bring turps or white spirit to the classroom.
· Palette: rectangular or oval medium wooden
· Brushes natural hog for oil painting (long handle) N 4, 6, 8,10
· Winsor&Newton palette knife N21 or N22
· 2 jam jars with lids
· Kitchen roll
· Old shirt or apron to protect clothing (or wear old clothes)
· Small drawing pad A4
· Pencil, eraser