Foundation Skills in Oil Painting - Autumn Term

All the regular classes are currently filled. Please contact us if you would like to get on the wait list for next term.

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY EVENING CLASSES - 7-9:30pm
September 10/11 - December 10/11 (no class October 15/16 & 22/23) - 12 weeks
£250 + £30 materials fee

FRIDAY MORNINGS - 10am-1pm
September 13 - December 13 (no class October 18& 25) - 12 weeks
£250 + £30 materials fee

​The Foundation Skills in Oil Painting courses explore the basics of oil painting, in other words, skills that painters revisit and experiment with their entire careers. We cover topics such as setting up your palette and materials, how to use mediums and grounds, the importance of tone, brushwork, colour mixing and colour relationships, composition and more. You will learn a  few different ways of starting a painting, and see the difference between working quickly in 'wet-on-wet' and building up layers over time. We work from a variety of subject matter and sources of inspiration, looking at a great deal of paintings from art history (up to the present) and painting from still-life, landscape, portraiture and self-portraiture, as well as sometimes working from combined images/mixed media and more abstract compositions in the more experienced groups. Occasionally we meet up at an exhibition in a gallery that might be especially relevant to what we are doing in class, although these visits are totally optional. The courses are carefully planned so that each week builds on the previous, so that by the end of each course you will have gained confidence in working with oil paints. 

Small groups (8 students max) mean a great deal of one-on-one attention. The classes are appropriate for beginners and more experienced painters. Classes take place in supportive and convivial atmosphere. Classes take place at our private studio in Stoke Newington, on Clissold Crescent, just south of Clissold Park. (The studio requires climbing two flights of stairs.)