Landscape Oil Painting Short Course

Topics covered

• Choosing the right images that have the potential to become paintings
• Considering possible compositions
• Different methods of transferring the image: squaring-up, photocopying, tracing
• The essentials of oil painting: colour mixing, tone, texture
• Taking inspiration from past and present painters
• Working on a variety of scales and surfaces
• An open approach directed towards each student's needs
  
  

Learning outcomes

• Have explored different methods of transferring images for painting, including squaring-up, photocopying, tracing etc
• Learned about the essentials of oil painting and mixing colours
• Have experimented creating tone and texture using oil paint
• Worked on a variety of scales and surfaces
• Digital badge and certificate of attendance
  
  

Materials

• A wide range of artists' oil paints: Titanium White, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Alizarin Crimson, Viridian Green, Sap Green, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Red, Windsor Violet, Cadmium Yellow and Lemon Yellow, and Raw Umber
  
  
• A stretched canvas 24 x 30 inches (approximately) and/or hardboard
  
  
• Palette (wooden or plastic), and palette knife (around 2 inch long) purified linseed oil, brushes (at least one size 12 flat, some round and one small round size 3), kitchen roll/rags
  
  
• A selection of landscape drawings or photographs of landscapes you want to paint
  
  

For Health and Safety reasons students are not allowed to bring any solvents into the studio. We will provide low-odour mineral spirits for diluting paints and cleaning brushes. Any kind of spray products, turpentine or white spirits are banned from the building and the internal courtyard.