Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects, transparent colour films, and delicate veils. Working practically in the studio, expand your approaches in oil painting: learn to build a variety of surfaces, working with mediums, texture and glazing. This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.
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Improving your skills and expanding your understanding of techniques for manipulating oil paint. This course will build your confidence and encourage an informed individual approach. Demonstrations will introduce the individual properties of a range of oil-mediums, followed by guidance on how to use them to create depth and nuance in oil painting.
What will we cover?
• The properties of mediums for oil painting such as glazing mediums; linseed oil and Liquin. • Impasto and glazing in layers. • Transparency and opacity of paint. • Wet and dry / wet into wet approaches.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Combine mediums with oil paint to extend the range of brush marks. • Use layering and glazing techniques in oil painting. • Create a varied and nuanced surface in oil painting.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters who are interested in developing their understanding of how to manipulate oil paint as a medium.
You should be able to follow verbal and written instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information. You may be encouraged to take short written notes for your own use and take part in group discussions.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
• Demonstrations • Practical work in the studio • Handouts • One-to–one tutoring • Group discussion.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Materials and resources are provided as part of this course, including oil paint, mediums and brushes. A sketchbook would be useful for making notes.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You will be able to progress on to Painting 1, 2 or 3, (depending on your individual level, your tutor will advise); these courses are taught using both acrylic and oil. If you would like to continue to focus on oil, progress to Oil painting projects.
We’re sorry. We don’t have a bio ready for the tutor of this class at the moment, but we’re working on it! Watch this space.
Steve WrightSee moreSee less
Steve is a London-based painter and art tutor. He has worked in adult education since 2012, developing a wide range of courses in drawing and painting that balance technical skills with an openness to individual ways of working. He is skilled at finding both strengths and areas to improve in a student’s work and in communicating this in a supportive way to individual learners. Steve studied Painting at Wimbledon School of Art and Newcastle University, completing his MA in 2001. His own painting practice informs his teaching and he likes to share some of his drawings, paintings and working methods with students. Steve’s work is included in several public and private collections and has featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. www.stevewqrightart.com
Lindsay PickettSee moreSee less
Lindsay is a graduate with an MA in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School. He teaches at various adult education providers within the areas of painting and drawing. At City Lit, Lindsay works with both beginners and those looking to develop technical skills within watercolour, oil and acrylic painting alongside drawing using ink and wash techniques. His own art work preoccupies with the isolation of the hybrid misfit. Such misfits are depictions of animal hybrids in a landscape, where they are rejected by their peers. Lindsay who has also experienced social rejection, has used this personal emotive to express the loneliness in his work with great panache.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.,<p>Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects, transparent colour films, and delicate veils. Working practically in the studio, expand your approaches in oil painting: learn to build a variety of surfaces, working with mediums, texture and glazing. 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