Foundation of Oil Painting

SKU: foundation oil painting
€635.00
€599.00
€599.00
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Foundation of Oil Painting – 8 Day Course

Dates: all year round wed/ sat 10-4 choose your dates

Time: 10am - 4pm, Wed, Sat

Skill Level: All Levels Beginners to Advanced

Materials: Price includes a professional brush set, linseed oil , palette knife and 1 x canvas 30x 40

Price: €635 special price €599



Course Overview

Build confidence, technical skill, and personal expression in this immersive introduction to oil painting. Working in our large French-style atelier, you will learn the fundamentals of oil painting, from preparing a canvas and setting up a palette to understanding brushwork, colour mixing, and classical painting processes. Students will study both classical and contemporary approaches to painting, using our extensive studio library to take inspiration from artists such as Goya, Velázquez, Sargent, Monet, Picasso, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas and Peter Doig. Students can work in portraiture, landscape, or the figure, and are encouraged to develop a personal direction, including working from their own drawings and reference images. 

We provide you with paint for your first few classes and then we will advise on paint to purchase once you move from monotone into color.


For artists with some experience the course is simply adjusted to the level you are at and what you wish to achieve. So all levels can use this course simply email the studio with images of your work and the artists you wish to emulate and understand.



Over 8 full days, you’ll progress through structured studies and guided practice in some of the following areas . The areas you are taught depend on your skill level:


  • Introduction & Materials Demonstration – learn how to prepare a canvas, set up a classical palette, understand different brush types and their uses
  • Underpainting & Grisaille – explore classical underpainting methods, sketching in paint, tonal block-ins, and grisaille painting to build strong structure, light, and form before colour
  • Introduction to Colour & Limited Palettes – learn colour mixing, temperature control and harmony using an Old Master limited palette
  •  Painting Techniques – create studies inspired by artists such as Sargent, Velázquez, Monet or Freud while learning about edge quality, transitions, wet-on-wet and glazing
  • Personal Project – develop a painting based on your own interests (abstraction, portrait, figure, landscape), integrating the techniques learned, with individual feedback and guidance for continued study





* Please Note all bookings are non-refundable and non-exchangeable

When you book please email us your first 2 dates to get started .

CONDITIONS: Once confirmed, all sessions are non-exchangeable, non-transferable and non-refundable. If classes have to be cancelled by East Coast Art Studios for any reason, students will be offered a refund for the missed class, or an opportunity to retake the session at another date. All paint and drawing materials are provided for both drawing and painting courses except canvas. Students taking the intensive programme or ongoing classes must bring their own set of brushes these can be provided by the studio please ask for info. Students wishing to paint on a larger scale may bring a canvas with them to the studio.  All class times include 5 minutes of clean-up. . Photos/videos taken by East Coast Art Studios during sessions, including of students or students work may be used for promotional purposes unless students specifically request otherwise.
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