36) Oil Painting for Beginners B (Morning Class)

About this class

In this course the students will learn to paint with oils as old masters did in 15-17 century Italy and Belgium. The technique is surprising easy, however it requires initial “seeing” excercises and drawing in depth before the actual painting begins.

Class Outline

-First Session:

Drawing what you see. How to turn off your brain.

-Second Session:

Drawing exercises: perspective, depth, shadow and light

-Third Session:

How to prepare canvas, reference pictures, how to take pictures, motive set up

-Fourth to Eighth Session: 

Paint

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

The students need to purchase all the materials they use in class because they need to work at home too. I suggest after the initial meeting they buy their materials and bring them with them.

• Table top easels
• Canvas
• Gesso
• Sandpaper
• Pallet knife
• Pallet
• Initially 7tubes of paint-  Primary yellow, Phthalo blue, Colbalt blue, alizarin red, cadmium red,Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, titanium white, mixing white, mars black.
• Reusable cloth- Cotton or Old t-shirts for example. No paper towel or microfiber please.
• 3 Glass jars, marmelade jars are fine
• Linseed oil, bleached
• Drawing material
• Coal

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:

• Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
• Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
• Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
• Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
• Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Wed, 20 Mar, 2019
End: Wed, 1 May, 2019
Lessons: 7
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: The Drawing Room
Cost: 1700

Instructors

Register

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