Further Detail
There will be various fun exercises on canvas and board and information about how to set up your studio (with notes).
Once we have taken the scariness out of oils, you can do a step-by-step landscape, or a painting from your own photo or one of Lin’s.
The class has a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on ‘messing about’, and you’ll still finish or almost finish a small canvas.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Level
Suitable for complete beginners to Improvers
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10 payable to the tutor during the course.
Please Bring With You
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
There will be various fun exercises on canvas and board and information about how to set up your studio (with notes).
Once we have taken the scariness out of oils, you can do a step-by-step landscape, or a painting from your own photo or one of Lin’s.
The class has a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on ‘messing about’, and you’ll still finish or almost finish a small canvas.
Skills/Techniques Covered
- Choosing materials to start oil painting
- Colour mixing with a palette knife
- How to start a painting using a tonal beginning
- Making a limited palette exciting.
- How to apply oils to the canvas
Level
Suitable for complete beginners to Improvers
Materials
Materials are not included in your course fee. All materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £10 payable to the tutor during the course.
Please Bring With You
- apron
- masking tape
- latex gloves (2 - 3 pairs)
- an old household paintbrush any size 1” – 2” – preferably a slightly old one for a nice bristly texture, the brush will get ruined.
- baking tray to take wet work home
- kitchen roll
- plastic bag to tape to your desk for rubbish
- Optional - photo of a landscape to work from
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.