Introductory Oils with Kate Scott (Mon 6-9pm)

$241

Develop your oil painting skills, knowledge and confidence in a friendly, supportive environment.
Tutor Kathryn Scott
@kathryn.scott.artist
www.kathrynscott.com.au
Date Mon 12, 19 & 26 October (3 weeks) 
Time 6pm – 9pm Mondays
12 hours total (3 hours each evening)
Location CAW, Studio B
Address 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith ACT
Class size 12
Price $193 CAW & ASOC Members
$241 Non-Member
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Perfect for beginners or students who have previously taken Kathryn’s classes, this course provides a practical introduction to the versatile and rewarding medium of oil paint.

Through a series of targeted exercises, you’ll develop confidence with the fundamentals of oil painting while exploring the elements of art and design, including line, shape, colour and tone. You’ll learn colour mixing, the Notan system of dark-light harmony, warm and cool colours, the Zorn palette and methods for de-saturating pure colour.

The course will also introduce essential oil painting techniques including fat over lean, opacity and transparency, impasto, scumbling, blending and modelling. You’ll explore composition, cropping and the role of abstraction within the picture plane, as well as practical skills such as setting up a palette, using brushes, mediums and solvents, caring for wet paintings, transporting materials and cleaning up.

Working with a small selection of basic art materials, the course is designed to build your technical skills, understanding and confidence in oil painting.

Materials list

There are many brands, grades, hues, sizes, and different prices in oil paint, from a variety of sale outlets such as online, Eckersleys, Officeworks, Spotlight, 2$ shops. Start simple and cheap OR spend up big, if that suits your budget.

Oil paints
A limited set of basic oil paints tubes may be a good way to start. They are available in Professional, Artists and Student grades and come in a variety of tube sizes.
Yellow – Cadmium Yellow and Yellow Ochre
Red – Cadmium Red
Blue – Ultramarine
Titanium White
Ivory Black
Optional colours – bring them if you have them – Cadmium Orange, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Viridian Green, Transparent Red Oxide, Terra Rosa, Burnt Sienna

Surfaces
Oil sketch paper – A4 or A3, or one large sheet. May be cut or torn
A few stretched canvases, approximately 30 x 30 cm, or 30 c 40 cm

Brushes, palette knives, palette
A variety of brushes including Hog Bristle and synthetic. Typical sizes 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12
A variety of styles, such as round, flat bright, filbert, liner
A palette knife is used for mixing paint and for applying paint, such as a small triangular shaped metal knife.
A palette may be a pad of throw away paper, wood or glass

Medium, solvent and other items
Small bottle of linseed oil
Odourless solvent eg Gamblin
3 small glass jars with lids
Brush cleaner or soap
A supply of paper towels, cotton cloth rags, cotton tips, protective gloves if required, apron, bags for cleaning materials, bags or plastic wrap to transport wet brushes and a drop cloth for your car.

Source material
Bring printed images that appeal to you from magazines, photographs such as still life, landscape, figures, portrait, buildings or other. Keep these simple and uncomplicated. We will also set up simple still life subjects.

About the tutor

Kathryn Scott is a Canberra-based artist and art educator with more than 30 years experience teaching art in schools and more recently at the Canberra Art Workshop. Working primarily in oils and acrylics, she also explores drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture and mixed media. Her subjects include the human figure, portraiture and landscape, and her approach spans representation, expressionism, symbolism, metaphysical themes and abstraction. She has presented three successful solo exhibitions, regularly exhibits with CAW, and her work is held in many private collections.

Media

Oil Painting

 

Skill level

Beginners to intermediate

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