Oil Painting for beginners with John Myers: 22nd January to 26th February 2016

John Myers

John Myers

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This is a unique luxury painting class having the most tutor contact time anywhere in London with a maximum of six students; presenting an opportunity for beginner and intermediate artists to learn from a master artist in an intimate setting.

Fees £275 for six consecutive Fridays.

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Time: Fridays 10.30am to 1.30pm

Venue: The Essential School of Painting, 2nd Floor, Alison Harper Studio, Eastbourne House, Bullards Place off Morpeth Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0UH

Google Map: TheESOP Eastbourne House

About the course:
Oil Painting for beginners Class at TheESOP Dec 2015

Oil Painting for beginners Class at TheESOP Dec 2015

Learn step by step approaches to oil painting from an expert painter John Myers. We will cover materials and methods of oil painting including supports and surfaces, brushes and paint mediums. Students will learn colour mixing and ways of constructing images through contrasting tonal values, blocks of colour, line and texture. Much emphasis will be placed on the tactile handling of the paint. We will start by painting simple still life set ups. With a maximum of seven students only, this course will ensure you receive all the guidance you need to set yourself on the path to successful  oil painting.

Leslie by John Myers Oil on canvas

John Myers is a highly skilled artist and tutor in painting specializing in oil painting. He is the 2009 winner of the Grand Prix Maryse Anderbouhr award from Taylor Fondation des artistes in Paris and a graduate of Art History and Fine Arts from the distinguished École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1972 to 1977). From 1986 to 2002 John, a fluent French speaker, taught drawing and painting at the City of Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts  and was visiting lecturer at the prestigious British School of Paris. John exhibits widely in France and regularly in the UK and Ireland.

 

John recently completed two highly successful En plein air classes with us. Read testimonials on this here