Oil painting for beginners
A series of detailed step-by-step workshops taking you through each stage or layer of an oil painting, including colour mixing, to give you confidence in working with this captivating medium.
Ability: Beginners
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
Ability: Beginners
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 6 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. Six months of online access to all of the course content.
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Introduction to tutor George Popesco and workshop overview
Getting Started
Getting Started
- Health and safety, tools, materials and set up requirements
Workshops
Completion
- Setting up your still life
- Beginning to paint – starting with tone
- Setting out the secondary colour palette
- Distributing colour in the background and foreground
- Evolving your palette
- Refining, defining and finishing touches
Completion
- Additional notes and ideas
Course includes:
- Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
- A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
- Practical tasks to complete
- Helpful materials suppliers list
- Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
- Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
- Additional notes and ideas
You will need:
Materials - you may need the following items but they are not essential
Equipment
Materials - you may need the following items but they are not essential
- A3 primed canvas board1 x charcoal stick, medium
- Paint palette; tear off paper palette, or any other type of palette including an old china plate
- Oil paints, 8 x 35ml tubes in the following colours: Lemon yellow hue,Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna, Permanent alizarin crimson, Primary cobalt blue, French ultramarine, Emerald green, Titanium white
- Low odour thinner, 75ml
- Cleaner - clean spirit or white spirit
- Old cotton rag
- Old Newspapers
Equipment
- An easel (or alternative means of securing your canvas upright)
- 4 Flat Filbert brushes, size 6, 8, 10 and 12
- Nylon round pointer tipped brush, size 8
- A dipper pot for your painting medium
- Plastic or metal palette knife
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Tutor
George Popesco
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