This two day workshop will encourage you to find a new approach to a still life. It is a staple element of many artists’ work. However, it is easy to get stuck in a rut and to feel a bit lost. These two days will be full of exercises, ways to take risks, to experiment and explore.
This is a workshop for anyone who has some experience of painting. Kate Measham, who is an experienced tutor, will be teaching with reference to oil painting. This is not a course about how to use the materials, but about what is in the image.
- Tutor, Kate Measham
- at Mottisfont Village Hall
- 12 and 26 November, 2025
- 10.00 – 4.00
- £180/2 days
- Tea, coffee and cake available
- lots of parking
What to expect on Still Life, Colour and Composition Workshop
Choosing what to paint is one of the hardest things to do, but it shouldn’t be. We all get in a rut with painting, sometimes we get bored, or frustrated and generally fed up. Altering some of the ways you do things can revitalise your work. What is a still life? What can you put into a still life? Are there any rules!?
Over these two days you will look at fresh ways to approach a still life. Change your palette, your pace, challenge your normal colour choices, and challenge your idea of a still life.
There will be optional homework between the two classes.
Materials
Kate will be working with oil paints, and sketching materials
- A mix of all your oil paint colours
- solvent, and jar
- Mixed brushes, palette knives, gloves
- rags, old newspaper
- a bag for rubbish
- large sketchbook
- charcoal, sharpie, pencil
- quick colour of some sort, eg little Brian paint sticks, felt tips, pastels, whatever you are very comfy using for quick colour notes
- A pad of oil painting paper, or at least 5 boards
