Foundation Art Course - Beginners Oil Painting

Foundation of Oil Painting – 8 Day Course

Dates: all year round wed/ sat 10-4 choose your dates

Time: 10am - 4pm, Wed, Sat

Skill Level: All Levels Beginners to Advanced

Materials: Price includes a professional brush set, linseed oil , palette knife and 1 x canvas 30x 40

Price: €635 special price €599

Course Overview

Build confidence, technical skill, and personal expression in this immersive introduction to oil painting. Working in our large French-style atelier, you will learn the fundamentals of oil painting, from preparing a canvas and setting up a palette to understanding brushwork, colour mixing, and classical painting processes. Students will study both classical and contemporary approaches to painting, using our extensive studio library to take inspiration from artists such as Goya, Velázquez, Sargent, Monet, Picasso, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas and Peter Doig. Students can work in portraiture, landscape, or the figure, and are encouraged to develop a personal direction, including working from their own drawings and reference images.

We provide you with paint for your first few classes and then we will advise on paint to purchase once you move from monotone into color.

For artists with some experience the course is simply adjusted to the level you are at and what you wish to achieve. So all levels can use this course simply email the studio with images of your work and the artists you wish to emulate and understand.

Over 8 full days, you’ll progress through structured studies and guided practice in some of the following areas . The areas you are taught depend on your skill level:

• Introduction & Materials Demonstration – learn how to prepare a canvas, set up a classical palette, understand different brush types and their uses
• Underpainting & Grisaille – explore classical underpainting methods, sketching in paint, tonal block-ins, and grisaille painting to build strong structure, light, and form before colour
• Introduction to Colour & Limited Palettes – learn colour mixing, temperature control and harmony using an Old Master limited palette
•  Painting Techniques – create studies inspired by artists such as Sargent, Velázquez, Monet or Freud while learning about edge quality, transitions, wet-on-wet and glazing
• Personal Project – develop a painting based on your own interests (abstraction, portrait, figure, landscape), integrating the techniques learned, with individual feedback and guidance for continued study

Materials Included with your booking are a bonus 2 x canvas 30 x 40cm , studio paper, oil paint and medium.

Bring set of brushes or discuss with studio.

Subject / style - you can explore both drawing and painting and a number of styles in this course. Subject -classical, portraiture, figure, abstraction, landscape ? etc

Get started on your journey to learning beautiful techniques in drawing and painting in both classical and contemporary styles.Complete your foundation course in 1 or 2 months. You will be guided through the process of learning how to use brushes correctly, mix paints, composition, draw and paint landscapes and portraits or create expressive and abstract works. You can then book another course or the weekly classes and progress to the next level of your artistic journey focusing on whatever area interests you or book the weekly classes which are ongoing all year.

Past students have used these classes to:

• to study art, painting drawing at you own pace in an open college timetable
• Develop a portfolio for admission to art or design college or for professional purposes
• Understand the flesh palette from the Venetian, French and Flemish schools of painting
• Study techniques such as grisaille, layering, glazing, sfumato, imprimatura and alla prima
• Learn how to transform initial ideas into fully-realised drawings and paintings from sketch book to finished work.
• Develop themes into a series of work for a gallery show or portfolio
• Overcome creative blocks from the home studio or fear of simply doing art

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