Oil Painting for Beginners

Fri 1^st Nov – Fri 6^th Dec (6 week course)
2pm – 4.30pm | Jubilee Stores, Newport
£165 includes some materials  

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at oil painting?
This 6-week beginner’s course offers you the perfect opportunity to learn the fundamentals of working with oil paints. Under the guidance of Martin Swan, an accomplished artist and member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, you’ll be introduced to essential techniques, and by the end of the course, you’ll have created your own landscape painting.

The class will begin by learning how to mix colours on a palette using a palette knife, then how to apply these colours with a brush or trowel. By a series of demonstrations and practice exercises the class will move in easy stages to painting a simple landscape. 

You will learn how to prepare and make your own canvas board and will conclude the course by painting your own landscape on the board you have made. Along the way, the class will pick up information about technique, equipment, supports, solvents etc. 

No previous knowledge is assumed and the tutor will demonstrate at every stage. 

What tools and equipment do I need?
For information on materials to bring with you please see the list below.
All will be available to purchase in the Quay Arts Shop (at 10% discounted price for course participants.)
Materials for your canvas board and brush cleaning fluid will be provided and are included in the cost of the course

Suitable for all, 18yrs +
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Meet your Tutor:
My painting career started when I left university with unemployable qualifications. I spent my time in the countryside developing my skills with watercolour, painting landscapes. I found I could make a living. I later moved into painting marine subjects and changed from watercolours to oils. In 2000 I started exhibiting with the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries in London. I was elected an associate member in 2003 and a full member in 2005.

I now like to paint a variety of subjects, including abstracts and portraits, and have started using watercolour again.

My work has been exhibited widely on the Island. In London, in addition to the Mall Galleries, it has been shown in The Houses of Parliament, The American Embassy, The National Maritime Museum, The RAC Club and the Bankside Gallery. Other notable venues include Portsmouth Cathedral and St Davids Hall, Cardiff and the Jonathan Grant Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand.

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