Six evenings with Guy Allott, learning oil paint from the beginning, step by step, with your hands in the material from the first week.
Oil paint rewards patience, intuition and technical knowledge.This course starts at the beginning and builds step by step from colour-tones and mixing oils, to surfaces, brushes and mediums and everything in-between; what each one does and why it matters, then we are painting.
Working from still life set ups, from images and from memory, you will learn to mix colour and to construct a picture through contrasting tonal values, blocks of colour, line and texture. A great deal of emphasis falls on the tactile handling of paint, on what happens when it is pushed, scraped, thinned and layered.
The class is capped at twelve so that everyone gets the guidance they need.
Who it is for
This course is suitable for all. It is built for complete beginners, for painters at an intermediate stage, and for experienced artists who have never worked in oil or who want to refresh their fundamentals.
What the course covers
- Materials and methods, supports and surfaces, brushes and paint mediums
- Colour mixing from first principles
- Constructing an image through tonal contrast, blocks of colour, line and texture
- Working from still life set ups, from images and from memory
- The tactile handling of paint, throughout
