Painting - Oils
Still life painting in oils for beginners with George Popesco
Ref: SWE10344
Beginners
£284About this course
Gain confidence and understanding of oil painting with structured exercises and expert guidance.Course Description
A thorough introduction to oil painting from still life. Gain confidence and understanding of this wonderful medium with structured exercises and expert guidance.
The still life objects will provide a visually stimulating and varied subject group for the focus of your painting, including natural and manmade objects. Your painting will evolve through carefully planned stages that will give you control over the medium and encourage confidence in your painting style.
The particular qualities of oil medium to describe and express form will be taught, starting with colour, and how to use it to structure a still life painting. Context and composition are also taught and you will learn and practice different technical approaches such as under-painting and impasto.
Through one-to-one tutor support, live class technical demonstrations and critical analysis, your confidence will grow. You will experiment and investigate different approaches to mixing and applying colour, mark-making and highlighting.
By the end of this course, you will have completed a successful still life painting through a thorough exploration of oil painting techniques.
Timetable
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Course Materials
Included
- The course fee includes the cost of providing some materials shared amongst the group including: oil paints, linseed oil, turpentine and Zest-it (odourless solvent).
- Please note that you may need to purchase more materials depending on the scale of the work you produce.
What students need to bring
- Rags or an old telephone directory/Yellow Pages
- 3 jam jars with lids
- Still life object. This object will form part of an interesting ice breaker exercise, something familiar to you which could be shared, talked about and even studied in oil colour.
Available to buy
- Available from shop:
- A2 (equivalent) canvas or primed hard board
- Sketchpad, pencil
- Brushes:
- Generally a good range of Student Quality – natural bristle or/and synthetic brushes, both flat filbert and/or round pointed in sizes large, medium and small
- Two dipper pots (preferably with lids)
Tutors
Since completing his academic training at the Royal Academy Schools London, George has taught extensively in varied Art & Design education structures alongside developing his own work and exhibiting both in group and solo exhibitions. George lives and works in Dorset, specialising in Oil Colour medium exploiting its tactile wet in wet qualities to form the mediums expressive and sculptural qualities.
Accommodation
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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