1. Introduction to Materials:

- oil paints, how to make your own oil paint

- support and grounds (canvases v wood panels); why do we need to seal the support

- brushes -variations, sizes, fibre and costs

- how to make your own palette

- thinners and mediums

Creating the colour wheel, secondary and tertiary colours

Tree colours and their possibilities

Two canvas panels 30 x 40 cm

2. Learning different brushstrokes and some simple oil techniques

(with the help of visual materials)

Choosing pigments to create autumn palette of colours.

Hue, value and saturation of colour.

Painting a simple shape objects.

Two canvas panels 30 x 40 cm

3. Basic shapes in everyday life: sphere, cube, pyramid, cone.

Light and its colour. How to use tone and light to create 3D objects

How to draw and paint the mug. Still life with the dark background. Circle in perspective.

One 25x30 cm canvas panel

4. Simple still life in grisaille technique using 5 tones.

Composition, proportions, tonal sketches. Help of tone scale to understand the tonal framework of the painting. “Fat-over-lean” rule in oil painting in layers.

Secrets of basic perspective.

One canvas panel or canvas 30 x 40 cm

5.Simple still life in grisaille technique 2nd session.

How light models form.

Learning the importance of hard and soft edges.

Working on details.

How to use glaze.

6. Christmas still life.

Alla prima (“all at once’) oil painting technique using colour blocking approach, less use of underdrawing, painting impasto.

Possible use of palette knife to move the paint around the canvas.

One 25x30 cm canvas panel or canvas

The tutor has the right to change the program in case of unforeseen circumstances.