Drop-in Intro to Oil Painting at Dulwich Art Group Sat

Hello all:

The group I used to go drop-in life drawing and once plein-air painting with is now offering intro to oil painting on (of course) Saturday afternoons. There will be tuition there unlike their life drawing sessions, and Simon is a hands-on and traditional teacher in my experience, and very willing to impart techniques and demo if you ask nicely. 

I will probably go to some of these, especially in Mar, after our term ends. 

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Dulwich Art Group Painting and Drawing sessions
Sea Scout Hut, Greendale, Dulwich, SE22 8TX(click opens GoogleMaps)

Regular Groups - click on the links below

Wednesday 28th January 12.00-3.00pm
Thursday 29th January 7.30-9.30pm
Friday 30th January 1.00-4.00pm
Saturday 31st January 10.00am-1.00pm
Saturday Afternoon Introduction to Oil Painting

Saturday 14th Feb 2.00pm-4.00pm Drop-in Intro to Oil Painting

Saturday afternoon we'll be working with a very limited palette and understanding that as tone changes so does hue; unless you're in moonlight or sodium light. We won't be. This is a drop-in group so you can come along if you've not been before or skip this week if you came last. Any new comers wanting to start from the beginning will be shown some moves once the initial demonstration is over more info here

Tutor is Simon Dunstan who will demonstrate and explain.

Cost £20 per session

Plein Air Painting with Dulwich Art Group

Two weeks ago a few of us went along on a plein air painting trip with the always excellent Dulwich Art Group. After a pleasant road trip through Kent in hazy sunshine, we arrived at Knole Park in Sevenoaks.  

Art supply shops in London (central)

Dear all:

Since we're getting into oil painting some people may want to invest in some of their own art materials eg good brushes and various mediums. Here is a list of good art supply shops I have used in and around London. Feel free to add to it with your favourite!

General:

CASSart: everyone probably knows this already, ask for a student discount card (need to show student ID or course registration doc) to get 10% off full priced items. There are 6 shops in London (all open on Sundays), and they run regular introductory workshops on drawing, painting, printmaking and photography so keep an eye out, here.

The Islington branch has good oil paints (eg Old Holland, Michael Harding) and special discount evenings sometimes.

Limited stock for online shopping.

Don't panic - Painting 2

The next painting module is not til Thursday 1st May, but Hilary already put this on Moodle for the Tuesday group.

It does involve some preparatory sketching/painting before the first class, so I thought it was worth posting here.

Painting Project 2014 CLFA year I

This project is to encourage you to gather and formulate research to enable you to further your artistic practice plus working from memory and observation.

Please make a series of images i.e. drawings, using charcoal, pencil, oil pastels or coloured pencils etc of a room in your house or flat i.e. a kitchen or a bedroom which you occupy at present. I.e. direct observation

The drawing / images can be of part of the room, i.e. what is near the window, a view out of the window, what the furniture looks like, i.e.. Details of the bed, chair/ colours in the room simple annotated drawings and colour swatches. 

Digital images can be used as aide memoires but it would be really useful to draw and make graphic/painterly images from the chosen subjects to create research material 

I suggest no less than 8- 10 of these images please plus digital 

The other part oaf the project is to recall the same kind of imagery from your memory, a room from a previous time in your life. Maybe childhood or when you were a teenager /student

So these second set of drawing will be formed from fragments of imagery from memories remembered from a bedroom or kitchen recalling the atmosphere in the room, recalling some of the furniture.

  I suggest you draw the images from memory using the same media as the room at in your present living accommodation. Please try to make about 6-8   0f these images. 

 When we are in the studio, please bring these drawings with you. I would like you to start building these images into a series of small juxtaposition paintings using various paint handling methods a specific colour paint palettes.   For example , using opaque/ transparent layering of paint.  Also we will be experimenting with different mediums to use with the oil paint. 

   Many thanks.

            Hilary