Oil Painting Workshops

Some the topics included in the workshop will be Composition and Design, Brushwork, Tonal Studies and Colour Mixing.
Other workshops will be held in the Spring through the months of April, June and September.

Landscape

With the breath taking mountain scenery, coastal harbours and lush garden the choice of subject matter for the artist is rich and varied. Sketching and painting out of doors provides the artist with the challenging opportunity to paint from direct observation. Where one will see the change of light, notice the calm or wind and how the atmosphere effects the landscape.

Still-Life

Should the weather be inclement and unsuitable for out door work, the hotel interior with its beautiful old world charm offers a very attractive alternative. Still-Life arrangements of fruit, bottles, books and flowers will be set up. Students may wish to take with them some objects from home which they feel they would love to paint. In this way the attraction that they feel for the subject matter will imbue the painting with vitality and emotion .
Painting from life whether it be indoors or out of doors provides the artist with the experience of translating the 3 dimensional form into a 2 dimensional study in which one will describe the play of light and shadow from the scene being observed on to the canvas.

Sara Kyne: 091 556338
email: sarakyne@gmail.com

WORKSHOP MATERIAL LIST

Portable Easel
Stool or folding chair[optional]
Palette Preferably wooden12 x 16 inches
Disposable palette [optional]
Palette knife for mixing
2 canvas boards 10 x 12
2 canvas boards 12x16

Bristle brushes
1” flat
2 filbert brushes No 10 and 12 or about one half inch in width
2 round brushes 12 and 14
1 fan brush [optional ]
1 small round no 4 or 2 brush for detail

Small aluminium pots for turpentine or white spirits [called twin dippers]
Linseed oil [optional]1 bottle of white spirits [available from hard ware ]
Rags
Paper towel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paints
1 large 200ml tube titanium white
Yellow ochre
Cadmium yellow medium
Alizarin crimson
Ultramarine blue
Cobalt blue [optional]
Cerulean blue [optional]
Viridian
Burnt sienna

Jar for cleaning brushes
Sketchbook 8x10 “or larger.
Pencils 2B,3B ,4B
Sharpener or standley knife
Eraser
Plastic bag for rubbish

Sunhat, rain coat ,sunscreen , bug spray, camera.
Wear old comfortable clothes and runners or hiking boots
Spare clothes warm fleece hat or cap