Oil Painting - Loose and Easy  NEW

Day one

• An introduction to the class to the materials and palette arrangements of oil paint.
• Demo by me using white board of basic perspective and how it rates to your painting.
• Discussion on tones and how they relate to the landscape followed by a demo on the use of a tonal plan of our simple landscape
• The class will then practice this lesson in doing their own painting .
• After we will take this a step further by applying tonal colour to our sketch, finally refining colour to make our small sketch into a finished piece.

Day two

• An introduction of drawing more complex shapes vehicles people and boats.
• I will show how, on the white board and then the students will have to workout in their drawing pads from photos supplied ,If time permits we will start another painting using these more complex shapes. Example a simple towns cape with a vehicle and people.

Day Three

• If possible day three will be a field day, were we will find some where we can paint Plein Aire using the techniques \learnt in the past 2 days. I will do a quick field study showing the main points to be considered in doing a Plein Aire study. After which the class will do likewise .

Day Four

• This can be another field study at a different location, subject to the majority agreeing. Again I will do a quick study followed by the class painting what they would like to paint

Day Five

• This will be a revision day where we will finish work not finished Assess what we have learnt Followed by a critique and appraisal of what we have done.. Clean and tidy up the room followed by a class display of our work if that is apart of the Art Camp agenda.