Friday Mornings – Painting in Oils

Friday Mornings – Painting in Oils

Autumn Term 2024

What you will learn:

• Learn to paint in oils from the beginning
• Understand the mechanics of oil paint
• Mix the colours that you see accurately
• Discover ways of looking that lead to successful images
• Acquire failsafe compositional strategies
• Embrace your own visual language

Who is this for?

People wanting to learn how to paint in oils. Anyone wanting to transition from drawing or another medium to oil paint or those just starting out and wanting a good grounding in oil painting and associated skills.

Course description

There is a reason why many professional artists choose to work in oil paint. The colours are rich and intense, the handling qualities lead naturally to realism, impressionism or indeed abstraction and the flexibility enables us to work quickly or slowly, as we choose.

This course will introduce you to the mechanics of oil paint, show you how to accurately mix the colours you see and then put in place the ground skills you need to be able to craft beautiful paintings that reflect your own creative ideas.

It is divided into four parts, in three week blocks. The first two parts will orient you to the studio, the medium and colour mixing, the second two explore aspects of image making whilst continuing to strengthen our basic skills. You may choose which parts to attend or treat it as a progressive course.

Introduction to Oil Painting, 6 weeks: Part one & two

13th September – 18th October
Half Term: 25th October
10.00am- 1.00pm (on-site)
Cost £300

Part one

• Studio skills, understanding the medium, learning about colour and how to mix it.

Part two

• Establishing a workflow, making images by working from still life

Tutor: Audrey Fattouche

Part three, 3 weeks

1st November – 15th November
10.00am- 1.00pm (on-site)
Cost £150

Once we’ve got to grips with the mechanics of paint we then start to consider what makes a ‘picture’. David Sawyer is a master at placing elements on his canvas that engage the attention, lead the eye and tell a story. He will share the ways in which you can turn a simple study into a painting that draws in your viewer.

• Compositional strategies and basic perspective
• Work with one of Britain’s most respected landscape artists
• Learn to build images that arrest the viewer and look ‘right’

Tutor: David Sawyer

Part four, 3 weeks

29th November – 13th December
10.00am- 1.00pm (on-site)
Cost £150

Colour and form

Simon will show you how to work with colour to bring drama and excitement to your images and how to discover a way of painting that suits you well.

• Find out how to create a sense of volume and depth with colour
• Look at different ways of working the paint from smooth blending to looser more painterly approaches
• Explore your own visual language, what works best for you?
• Learn how to establish your own painting practice

Tutor: Simon Dunstan

Get to know our tutors

Audrey Fattouche is an enthusiastic tutor and strong communicator who sees teaching as a part of her own art practice. She studied at the Royal Drawing School and teaches life drawing at the Dulwich Art Group. Her practice focuses on careful observation and is deeply rooted in realism, seeking to depict human experiences and real people with truth and honesty. You can see her Instagram here

 

David Sawyer has been working as a fine artist since he left Canterbury College of Art in the eighties. During that time he’s won many awards and gained plenty of attention. His work often includes architectural motifs which he renders seemingly effortlessly in his impressionistic style. More recently he has been teaching, and students appreciate his uncomplicated and direct method and the generous way in which he shares his knowledge. As a seasoned professional he knows every angle of painting and most importantly he knows where to expend his time and energy in order to get his image.

 

Simon Dunstan has worked in digital imaging, film and television and for the past twenty years has organised art workshops and continues to paint. He organises the Dulwich Art Group and School.