Oil Painting for Beginners

Discover your creativity and learn to use oil paints with confidence in a relaxing studio environment. Step by step instructions will help you to complete a landscape or a subject of your choice. Receive individual tuition with a qualified art teacher and demonstrations in colour mixing, composition and painting techniques. Expect to complete a painting during the course and to keep on painting afterwards toward developing your own style.

Oil paints, equipment and a canvas will be provided for a one off fee.

Coursework breakdown:

• Painting materials and equipment. Work Health & Safety.
• Composition, perspective, focal point.
• Colour mixing, warm/cool palette.
• Underpainting, tonal values.

MATERIALS

All participants will need to bring:

• Landscape image, photo or drawing that inspires you
• Rags for clean-up
• Drawing paper pad, A3 or A4 size
• Pencils
• Wear old or protective clothing, i.e. an over-shirt or apron and covered shoes

Materials can be supplied in a Painting Starters Kit which includes:

• 1 x Canvas 16”x 20” (40cm x 50cm)
• Brushes
• Oil paint for use in all sessions
• Mediums
• Cleaning agents
• Gesso
• Disposable gloves
• Dipper (for mediums)

Cost is $50,  payable to tutor at the first session.

Please let us know if you want a ‘Painting Starters Kit’ supplied by emailing us at info@sydneyartspace.com by 29th May.

OR

BYO materials including all the items listed above including a primed canvas 16” x 20” (40 x 50cm) and the following oil paint colours:

• Cadmium Yellow Light
• Cadmium Yellow Deep
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Alizarin
• Cerulean Blue
• Ultramarine Blue
• Titanium White
• Black (any)