Painting II / Choose an Artist to Study
Level: Intermediate
2024 Dates TBA
Saturdays 1 – 4pm
$450 / includes quality acrylic paints & mediums
$420 / bring your own oil or acrylic paint & mediums
We provide board and gesso.
Tutor: Carmel Byrne
All bookings here.
This is a follow up course to Painting for Beginners. Painting II takes students to the next step making a close study of a self chosen Master Painting. Because painting is a multi-layered, complicated process it’s of high value to analyse and study a master painting. With this approach the tone and structure of the painting is fairly easy to emulate and then more time can be spent focussing on colour and brushwork which is what we consider the heart and soul of a painting especially when heightened with a solid, logical underlying structure.
Below is the progression of past students that have taken this course.
October – November 2023
Final student works
October – November 2022
Students can select an artist and together we nut out how the painting was constructed, the brushwork and colour mixes. Students can use acrylic and/or oil paint.
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This is an intermediate course. Contact us if you’re unsure of your skill-level
Week 1: Preparation / Prepare supports for painting, and begin studies of the chosen work.
Week 2: Layer 1 / Analyse how the first layer of the painting was made with lean, fast drying colour
Week 3: Layer 2 / Figure out the structure of the composition
Week 4: Layer 3 / Figure out the tonal plan
Week 5: Layer 4 / Figure out the colour plan
Week 6: Layer 5 / Tweak you own changes
Week 7: Layer 6 / Refine colour saturation, highlights and shadows
