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Oil Painting Course

Unleash your inner artist and learn how to paint with oils in Sydney

Sydney Community College

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7 x 2.5 hours

1 to 20 $399

What you'll do

Discover the fascinating world of oil paints in this comprehensive oil painting course! Over seven sessions, you will learn the techniques and benefits of working with the oil paint medium.

Suitable for both beginners and those with some painting experience, you will be guided through structured exercises to create paintings with beautiful texture and finish – even without any prior painting experience.

We will begin with the examination of inspirational paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque. You will be introduced to the historical techniques as used by artists during this period. Your first painting will be the reproduction of a section of a painting of your choice from this period.

The traditional techniques acquired during this study will then be used to create a second painting of your choice.

What you will learn about over seven sessions:

Tonal painting and underpainting
Colour theory and colour mixing
Paint formulation and handling
Brush technique
The application of grounds and priming's and the construction of an oil painting

At the end of this painting course in Sydney, you will be able to confidently mix colours using colour theory, create various formulations of oil paint, create a single-layered and multi-layered painting and know some awesome brush and palette techniques.

Please note: You can purchase the following items at the checkout and they will be supplied at the first session.

Paint kit (6 colours) - $70
Brushes kit (12 brushes) - $20
One sheet of paper palette - $1
One sheet of canvas paper - $3

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Aside from this class, Sydney Community College also has the following coming up:

Bookbinding Course for Beginners, at Sat 7 Aug at 9:30am
Ukulele Course for Beginners, at Sat 7 Aug at 10am
Smartphone Videography Class for Beginners, at Mon 9 Aug at 10am
Harmonica Course for Beginners, at Wed 11 Aug at 6:30pm
Painting Class: Graphite and Wash, at Thu 12 Aug at 1:30pm
Concertina Bookbinding Class: Core Skills, at Sat 14 Aug at 9:30am
Resin Art Workshop for Beginners, at Sat 14 Aug at 1pm
Acting Course for Beginners: Monologue, at Mon 16 Aug at 6:30pm
Drawing Course for Beginners, at Tue 17 Aug at 6:30pm

Add-ons available for this class

Paint kit (6 colours) ($70)
Brushes kit (12 brushes) ($20)
One sheet of paper palette ($1)
One sheet of canvas paper ($3)

You can add these when you book (optional).

Knowledge required

This course is open to beginners and students with painting experience.

What you'll get

Expert tuition over seven sessions with a practising artist.

What to bring

Closed-in shoes required
Please wear old clothes
Long hair must be tied back

You will also require the following materials for later sessions:

Paints
Art Spectrum 40ml oil paint tubes:

Titanium White
Spectrum Crimson
Lemon Yellow
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber

Optional extra colours:

Spectrum Vermillion
Golden Yellow
Phthalo Blue

If you already have a set of oil paints please bring these to class to discuss with your teacher before purchasing any more.

Brushes

A range of round hog bristle brushes - at least 10, for example, sizes & quantity: 2×4, 2×6, 2×8, 2×10, 2×12 (choose any inexpensive brand)
Two small round synthetic sable brush: sizes: 2, 4

Other:

A disposable paper palette pad (A4)
A 2B or 4B pencil
A small cartridge paper sketch pad
A small stretched canvas - suggested sizes: 10×12″ or 12×16″ or 16×20″ (can be purchased from a discount variety store)
A pad of Canson Canvas Paper 290 gsm A3 in size (or equivalent)
A small bottle of either cold-pressed linseed oil or stand oil
Rubber, Nitrile or Vinyl disposable gloves (from the supermarket)
Spade-shaped Stainless Steel palette knife
Cotton rags (e.g. old t-shirts)
Two or three glass jars with lids
250ml odourless solvent
Smock or another protective garment (an old shirt or t-shirt will do)

Session repeats

This class series runs over 7 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

Suitable for

This class is a great indoor activity idea for individuals and couples as well as for a birthday, hens party, team building activity, bucks party or Christmas party.

This would also be a lovely gift for her, gift for mum or anniversary gift.

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Location

2A Gordon St, Rozelle (varies by date; click the date selector to see details)

Your teacher

Sydney Community College

4.9 (70)

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Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.

Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.

Sydney Community College is COVID-19 aware This means that this teacher won't run this class if they've had flu symptoms in the last 14 days, and will adhere to relevant government restrictions (e.g. maximum number of guests).

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