Start 2025 by enrolling in an oil painting class. Make it your New Year’s resolution to focus on your painting.
This four week oil painting course, led by Kate Measham, offers a supportive environment for those with some experience. Do you feel you need a reminding nudge, and encouragement to try something new?This regular class will give you a supportive environment and offer ideas and advice.
- tutor, Kate Measham
- 27 January, 3, 17, and 24 February 2025
- 10.00 – 4.00
- at Mottisfont Village Hall, near Romsey
- £320/4 workshops.
- If you want individual days they will be £90/ day (please contact me to discuss which days)
- parking, tea and coffee freely available, please bring your own lunch
- Homework will be suggested.
What to expect on this Oil Painting course
On this course you will be given many exercises to try. Each week will have a different focus.
- 27th January Still Life with reference to SJ Peploe and the Scottish Colourists
- 3rd February, Valentines day with reference to Venus and Adonis, Veronese
- 17th February, Landscape with reference to Robert Bevan and Paul Henry
- 24th February, Figures with reference to David Park and Sargy Mann
These differing approaches will stretch you and open your eyes to fresh possibilities. Kate encourages you to experiment, play and enjoy the medium. Oil paints are forgiving; you don’t have to tiptoe around them. You will try an intuitive approach as well as more measured sketches. It is important that you enjoy the process. Often the work that has gone wrong are the pieces that teach you the most. These ones can be the pieces on which you have worked hardest. This is where you learn to try again, and see what happens.
Materials
Materials can be found online and in good art shops. Jacksons’ Art is a fairly comprehensive site with good quality own brand products.
For this class please bring a mix of oil paints in large tubes including:
- titanium white (2 tubes)
- alizarin crimzon
- lemon yellow
- cobalt blue (hue is fine)
- Other colours may be used, warning will be given
In addition you will need:
- charcoal, pencils, eraser
- sketchbook, about A4
- rags, (vital)
- brushes (a mix of sizes including large), I prefer hoghair, flat
- odour free solvents, two jam jars with lids.
- A jug or large jar to store your brushes
- your palette – disposable is fine
- a metal palette knife
- an A4 pad and an A3 pad of oil painting paper, or canvas pads (Jacksons canvas pads are excellent)
- a bag for your rubbish
- a wipe down plastic tablecloth to keep oil paints off the furniture
You will be doing a large number of sketches. I don’t mind what surface you use but please bring at least 10 to get started.
