1.Basic materials:

- oil paints, how to make your own oil paint

- support and grounds (canvases v wood panels); why do we need to seal the support

- brushes -variations, sizes, fibre and costs

- how to make your own palette

- thinners and mediums

Creating the colour wheel, secondary and tertiary colours

Tree colours and their possibilities

Two canvas panels 30 x 40 cm

2.Learning different brushstrokes and some simple oil technics

(with the help of visual materials)

Choosing pigments to create autumn palette of colours.

Hue, value and saturation of colour.

Painting a simple shape objects.

Two canvas panels 30 x 40 cm

3. Basic shapes in everyday life: sphere, cube, pyramid, cone.

Light and its colour. How to use tone and light to create 3D objects

How to draw and paint the mug. Still life with the dark background. Circle in perspective.

One 25x30 cm canvas panel

 4.Simple still life in grisaille technique using 5 tones. Composition, proportions, tonal sketches. Help of tone scale to understand the tonal framework of the painting. “Fat-over-lean” rule in oil painting in layers.

Secrets of basic perspective.

One canvas panels or canvas 30 x 40 cm

5.Simple still life in grisaille technique 2nd session. How the light models form. Learning the importance of hard and soft edges. Working on details. How to use glaze.

6. Still life in colour. Use of view finder to help with the composition. Importance of a good drawing. Simplification of tonal masses. Preparatory sketches in tone and colour. Blocking in the main shapes of the composition with washes. Underpainting in colour.

One canvas panel or canvas 30 x 40 cm

7. Second session of the still life in colour. How to hold everything together and not to focus on one item. Colour of the light and how it influences the hues and models the rounded objects. Looking at brushstrokes of different artists.

8. Painting landscape from the reference. Composition of the landscape and how to choose what to focus on. Balance of the abstract masses. Examples of the aerial perspective.One canvas panel or canvas 30 x 40 cm

9. Bright still life. Inspiration: Matisse

Finding the harmony of the masses of bright colour.

Possible use of “dry brush “ technique.

One 25x30 cm canvas panel or canvas

10. Christmas still life. Alla prima (“all at once’) oil painting technic using colour blocking approach and uses little of underdrawing, painting impasto. Possible use of palette knife to move the paint around the canvas.

One 25x30 cm canvas panel or canvas

11.Interior painting. Short colour sketch.

White canvas panel or canvas 25x30 cm

12. Painting seascape: mixing blues and grays for sky and sea.

White canvas panel or canvas 25x30 cm

The tutor has the right to change the program due to some circumstances like weather conditions or others.