Art - Oil Painting - All Levels

To check out the next start date / enrolment date of all evening classes go to cavaninstitute.ie/evening-courses or email lifelong@cavaninstitute.ie

€130.

This course is suited to a wide range of participants. If you have never painted, you will find a supportive teaching environment in which to learn the basics. And yet others who have painted for years are welcome to join the class to benefit from the support of a group and a teacher to reignite their creative practice. You don't have to have display any great artistic ability to join this class, simply an interest in exploring this painting medium in a fun, relaxed and encouraging environment.

Course Content
- Materials: types of brushes, student vs artist quality paints, different painting surfaces and painting mediums
- How to set up your palette
- How to mix paints, basic colour theory
- Understanding shapes, light, perspective
- Composition and the rule of thirds
- How to apply and manipulate paint to suit your style

This is a step-by-step class taking the student from understanding their materials and how to use them, to producing various styles and themes of oil painting.

The fee listed does not include a list of materials required for class which will be emailed to participants in advance of the start of the course.

School of Lifelong Learning,
Cavan Institute,
Cathedral Road,
Cavan.
H12E426.
Tel: 049 437 7940
E-mail: lifelong@cavaninstitute.ie