Introduction to Oil Painting
with Nataliya Zozulya
Summer Programme 2024
3 June: Still life in colour
Use of view finder to help with the composition. Importance of a good drawing. Simplification of tonal masses. Preparatory sketches in tone and colour. Blocking in the main shapes of the composition with washes. Underpainting in colour
17 June: Still life in colour, second session
How to hold everything together and not to focus on one item. Colour of the light and how it influences the hues and models the rounded objects. Looking at brushstrokes of different artists.
24 June: Painting a landscape from reference
Composition of the landscape and how to choose what to focus on. Balance of the abstract masses. Examples of the aerial perspective.
1 July: Still life with flowers
Alla prima (“all at once’) oil painting technic using colour blocking approach and uses little of underdrawing, painting impasto. Possible use of palette knife to move the paint around the canvas.
