Friday Mornings – An Introduction to Oil Painting

An Introduction to Oil Painting

A short three week course for beginners or intermediate artists who want to get going with oil paint and colour

Summer Term 2024

Fridays 5th, 12th and 19th JULY
10.00am- 1.00pm (on-site)
Cost £150

Tutor: Audrey Fattouche

• Learn to paint in oils from the beginning
• Understand the mechanics of oil paint
• Discover the colours to work with
• Establish essential studio skills
• Start to grow meaningfully as an artist

Most of us have tinkered with watercolour or acrylics but making the transition to painting in oils can seem a bit daunting. As a medium for describing the world we see or moving into abstraction it is unequalled. The colours are rich and saturated and it is fantastically flexible as a medium. There is a reason that oil has remained the most persistent medium chosen by professional artists. 

Learning its behaviours doesn’t take long, there are just a few simple rules to follow which are easy to pick up with some expert tuition. Once you are up to speed you will discover that oil is actually easier to work with than many other mediums.

This three week introduction is designed to give you the basics. You’ll learn to choose and mix colours, which surfaces and solvents to use, how to build up a painting in a way that works and all of the essential studio skills you’ll need to get cracking.

AudreyFattouche

Audrey 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 here Instagram here