Oil Painting 101
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Unleash your creative potential with Oil Painting 101: a course designed to guide you from your first brushstrokes to creating captivating works of art. In this interactive and hands-on program, you'll learn essential painting techniques, explore the beauty of color and form, and gradually develop your skills through a series of carefully crafted projects. Whether you want to capture the tranquility of a simple composition or the dynamic atmosphere of a landscape, this course offers a step-by-step path that will nurture your artistic vision every step of the way.
Key points of the course:
• Basic principles of oil painting: materials, techniques, and the representation of simple forms
• Still life painting: Develop a composition and color palette plan
• Flora and fauna: Express your creativity through a bold and precise painting technique, representing organic subjects.
• Landscape painting: Learn perspective and capture the atmosphere
• Portrait painting: Understanding proportions and creating realistic skin tones
If you are in Luxembourg and are looking for art classes, art workshops or art internships, this beginner course is the ideal first step into the world of oil painting.
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Course Program
Lesson 1
“Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start…”
The basics of oil painting
Experiments in techniques
Painting shapes: a cylinder, a ball, and a cube.
Lesson 2
Still Life
Apply what you learned in the first lesson with a simple still life
Learn colour pallet planning
Build up from background to foreground.
Lesson 3
Flora and Fauna
Paint an arrangement with more detail
Make a unified image from organic shapes.
Express bold and fine brushwork
Lesson 4
Landscape painting
Use the skills and techniques you have learned so far to paint a landscape.
Learn more about perspective and focal point.
Capture the view!
Lesson 5
Alvira Ferreira’s oil painting of people relaxing at Silvermine Dam, reinterpreting classic outdoor scenes with vibrant colors.
Portrait Painting
The basic rules of portraiture.
Anatomy of the human head and shoulders
How to paint skin tones
Lesson 6
Round off
Work on any paintings that still needs any finishing touches
Fine tune small details
Glase or add finishing patina
Organizer
Alvira
Where does it take place?
Foundry
Foundry
38 Rte d'Esch
1470 Hollerich Luxembourg
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