Oil Painting Classes – 4 Week Course

Oil Painting Classes – Art Classes in our Art School Co. Meath

Our oil painting classes are on a 4-week rolling basis and form part of a 2-year-long structured oil painting programme. These art classes cover a wide range of oil painting styles and techniques that will provide you with the necessary skills to paint in oils.

The painting programme runs from September to May. The idea is you can attend 1 or more 4-week oil painting courses, sequentially or intermittently, to suit your own personal commitments, and you can continue where you left off.

Are These Oil Painting Classes for Me?

These oil painting classes are designed for the complete beginner; the hobbyist artist looking to learn more and have a general understanding of oil painting and those at intermediate level who never had any formal tuition in oil painting.

We recommend (however, it is not mandatory), that if you are a complete beginner and you are unsure if you would like oil painting you attend our Beginners Introductory Workshop to Oil Painting before committing to the 4-week oil painting classes.

Regretfully, we are not accepting enrolment from trading and/or professional artists this 2023 as it puts a little extra unnecessary pressure on our existing and/or new beginners students. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.

The class sizes are small, no more than 5 persons, this is to give each of you individual time to talk over areas of your work and offer support and guidance.

Each painting class is run in a very relaxed and friendly environment and we go entirely at your own pace. We want you to have some fun, learn a new skill and all with expert oil painting tuition.

How Long are the Oil Painting Classes?

Each painting class is a 2-hour painting session, held once a week, in our art studio, over the course of 4 weeks. It is optional as to whether you would like to commit to further 4-week painting classes.

What will I Learn in the Oil Painting Classes?

The paintings set each week, are designed to teach you a new painting skill, technique, or colour palette. Depending on how many 4 week courses you enrol upon, you will typically complete painting studies by past master artists such as Monet, Caillebotte, Peploe, Van Gogh, the Fauvists, Klimt, Munch, Constable, Leech, Cezanne, Seago, Henry, Degas and many more.

The paintings set are also designed to provide you with the skill to paint still life, landscape, seascape, cityscape, interiors, the figure, portraiture and florals.

Normally, we paint for 2 hours, with a 10-15 minute break in the middle, where I take you through topics such as:

• oil painting materials, where and what to buy,
• preparing your painting surfaces,
• laying out your palette and using a limited or full-colour palette,
• brushes and palette knives – using, cleaning, storing,
• value, the colour wheel, colour mixing and temperature,
• the various ways to start and finish a painting,
• composition and design including cropping and creating notans,
• how to troubleshoot particular painting problems,
• old masters and their techniques including grisaille ebauche and glazing,
• painting styles – impressionism, neo-impressionism, expressionism etc.

Within each painting class, I will be there on hand to show you step by step how to start, paint and finish each of the paintings and to expertly guide you through each of the new painting techniques that you will learn to master.

These oil painting classes have been designed with the sole aim to make you braver, bolder, more expressive and creative in your painting. So that you will be able to add a little magic to your own paintings.

Workshop Name: Oil Painting Course over 4 weeks

Cost: €150

You must be able to attend each of the 4 painting classes as there will be no refunds or moving between classes – See our Terms and Conditions before enrolling and making payment.

Level: Complete beginner or hobbyist artist or intermediate level without any formal tuition in oil painting

Duration: 2 hours per week for 4 weeks, with priority booking to extend further

Materials: Follow the link for the required materials and suppliers.
For those of you that would a list to take to shops or help you pack up your kit bag, there is a printable checklist here.

Location: These oil painting classes are held at our art school, gallery/painting studio located just outside Dunboyne, Co. Meath beside the Hatchet Pub, and are centrally located between Kilcock, Maynooth, Dunshaughlin and approximately 20-30 minutes from Trim and Clonee by car. In addition, our art school is not far from Kildare, Dublin, Westmeath, Drogheda and Wicklow.

Choice of dates/sessions:

Mixed Levels

March

• Thursday Morning 10am to 12pm (09, 16, 23 & 30 March 2023)
• Thursday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (1 spot – starting 2 March 2023 – dates 2, 9, 16 & 23 March)
• Thursday Evening 6 to 8pm (09, 16, 23 & 30 March 2023)
• Friday Morning 10am to 12pm (24, 31 March & 14, 21 April 2023)
• Friday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (24, 31 March & 14, 21 April 2023)

April

• Thursday Morning 10am to 12pm (13, 20, 27 April & 04 May 2023)
• Thursday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (30 March & 13, 20 & 27 April 2023)
• Thursday Evening 6 to 8pm (13, 20, 27 April & 04 May 2023)
• Friday Morning 10am to 12pm (28 April, 05, 12, 19 May 2023)
• Friday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (28 April, 05, 12, 19 May 2023)

May

• Thursday Morning 10am to 12pm (11, 18, 25 May & 01 June 2023)
• Thursday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (04, 11, 18, 25 May 2023)
• Thursday Evening 6 to 8pm (11, 18, 25 May & 01 June 2023)
• Friday Morning 10am to 12pm (26 May, 09, 16, 23 June 2023)
• Friday Afternoon 2 to 4pm (26 May, 09, 16, 23 June 2023)