ONLINE An Introduction to Oil Paints - Starts Fri 17th November 2023 at 10am
SKU:
MCA1711aa12
£90.00
£90.00
per item
BOOKING DEADLINE: Fri 3rd November at 12pm UK TIME
Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, we would encourage students to participate live and work along with the tutor, if possible.
A video playback service will still be provided to all students for 60 days.
Tutor: Melanie Cambridge
Fri 17th November 10am - 12pm
Fri 24th November 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for absolute beginners and those wishing to refresh their memory of working in oils. This is a work-along workshop and so we would encourage students to have their materials to hand, ready to participate live during the class.
Workshop details
We welcome artist Melanie Cambridge to the Ardington family with this exciting introductory class.
Starting from the very beginning, Melanie will introduce you to oil colours, showing first how to lay out your palette. We'll learn different brushstrokes and ways of applying paint - both thinned washes and thick, straight from the tube - before being shown how to layer colours, wet in wet. Melanie will Illustrate each technique with quick exercises you can follow or try later.
Using a variety of brush marks, Melanie will then paint the lovely baking apples on a pink background, pictured above, showing how to create shadows and form as you paint.
For our second week, Melanie will be painting a jug with gerberas. Focusing on painting each flower with very few brush strokes, keeping the whole painting fresh and lively and making it easy to paint along.
Students can work in traditional oils or water-mixable oils.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
Links to suppliers
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Melanie will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.
Fri 17th November 10am - 12pm
Fri 24th November 10am - 12pm
(UK timings)
This LivePlus™ online workshop is suitable for absolute beginners and those wishing to refresh their memory of working in oils. This is a work-along workshop and so we would encourage students to have their materials to hand, ready to participate live during the class.
Workshop details
We welcome artist Melanie Cambridge to the Ardington family with this exciting introductory class.
Starting from the very beginning, Melanie will introduce you to oil colours, showing first how to lay out your palette. We'll learn different brushstrokes and ways of applying paint - both thinned washes and thick, straight from the tube - before being shown how to layer colours, wet in wet. Melanie will Illustrate each technique with quick exercises you can follow or try later.
Using a variety of brush marks, Melanie will then paint the lovely baking apples on a pink background, pictured above, showing how to create shadows and form as you paint.
For our second week, Melanie will be painting a jug with gerberas. Focusing on painting each flower with very few brush strokes, keeping the whole painting fresh and lively and making it easy to paint along.
Students can work in traditional oils or water-mixable oils.
Specific skills you will learn at the workshop
- Palette layout
- Brush marks
- Colour mixing
- Blending and shading
- Impasto vs. thinned washes
Equipment & materials list
Materials are not included in the course fee. All the materials and equipment you will need are listed below.
- A4 or A3 pad of oil sketching paper with a supporting drawing board
- A tear-off paper palette pad (£3 in ‘The Works’)
- Brushes: I recommend my own “Beginner Set for Oils” (see below) or a No.4 round brush, plus a medium filbert or flat brush (approx. 10mm wide).
- Palette knife - Winsor and Newton size 29 or similar
- Either Sansodor Oil Thinner or White Spirit in a jar with lid
- Kitchen roll or a few rags
- Oil colours as follows – any well-known brand is fine, including water-mixable ones. Student quality paints are good enough, no need to spend on artist quality ones yet.
- Titanium White
- Lemon Yellow
- Cadmium Yellow Deep OR similar deep eggy yellow colour
- Cadmium Red (hue colours are fine)
- Crimson OR primary magenta OR Permanent Rose
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cerulean Blue (hue colours are fine)
- Burnt Sienna
- If you have an easel or table easel so you can work with your canvas paper in an upright position, this is helpful.
Links to suppliers
- You can purchase Melanie's “Beginner Set for Oils” brushes for £15.00 inc. p&p by clicking here
- Jacksons (https://www.jacksonsart.com/) are good for paints, Sansodor, palette knives, oil sketching paper
- The Works online (https://www.theworks.co.uk/) for tear-off palettes
Additional Information
All Ardington ONLINE classes and talks are accompanied by their own online blackboard. Helpful and easy to use, they enable students and tutors to share resources, ideas and photos with each other – just as you would in a classroom environment.
Melanie will offer personalised critique / feedback via the blackboard for any work uploaded by students within thirty days of the class ending. You will be sent the link to access your blackboard in the week before your class begins and will have access for at least sixty days after the class ends.
After the live session has finished on Zoom, we will share the link to view the recording on the blackboard. You can watch the recording as many times as you like for sixty days.
We suggest that you do not buy any specialist materials more than one week in advance as, occasionally, a class may be cancelled due to low enrolment.