Oil Painting

7 WEEK COURSE

TUESDAYS 2:30-5:00 PM

Nov 5 - Dec 17 2024

WITH RYAN CHAPMAN

ALL LEVELS WELCOME

price: $250

class summary

This course is designed to help teach the foundational skills for oil painting. Whether you are a beginner, or have some experience in oil painting, this class will provide a valuable fundamental understanding of the core techniques of oil painting. In this course students will learn paint mixing, color theory, types of paint brushes, mediums (and when to use them) and many more incredibly valuable skills essential for creating successful paintings in oil!

No prior experience is required! As we keep class sizes small, our instructors can cater to each student’s individual skill level.

MATERIALS

I will be going over materials on the first day, so you will not need to have everything on day 1.

Bring along a sketchbook for warm-ups! If you’re unsure about any of these we can answer any questions you may have about materials on the first day of class

Various Sized Canvas Boards or Stretched Canvas (8x10 or 11x14 should be good) Returning Students are recommended to use larger canvases for Master copies
A 9x12 Fredrix Canvas Pad
Various Sized Brushes For Oil painting (good mix of synthetic and bristle brushes is recommended.)
Palette or Palette Paper
Pencil
Recommended Oil Paint Colors (Gamblin and Winsor Newton are good brands):
- Titanium White
- Raw Umber
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Red
- Alizarin Crimson
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Yellow (Light or Cad Lemon)
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Ivory Black
- + Any Other Colors You Want to Bring
Palette Knife (For Mixing)
Odorless Mineral Spirit (Gamsol Is Best) Please no Turpentine!
Linseed Oil (optional)
Paper Towels Or Rags
A Drawing Board or Large Clipboard (You’ll really want this for transporting your artwork)
Box for Palette/Wet Painting

SYLLABUS

Here’s a rough outline of what we’ll be covering!

Week 1 Overview of materials, Introduction to painting with an open palette.

Week 2 Monochromatic painting

Week 3 Paint mixing, Alla Prima Painting

Week 4 Underpainting

Week 5 Starting Final Painting, Master Copy or Still Life Painting (Underpainting)

Week 6 Continuing the the Final Painting (Intro to Glazing)

Week 7 Finishing the Final Painting. Learning How to Varnish a Painting

REFUNDS

Please contact us at least 1 week before class for a full refund. Unfortunately due to our limited class sizes we cannot process refunds after this time. Transfers to other classes are usually possible

It is possible that a class is cancelled if an inadequate number of students register. In this case, tuition will be promptly refunded