Painting II Intermediate

Painting II / Master Study

Level: Intermediate
Choose an Artist to Study

2025 dates coming soon.
Saturdays 1 – 4pm

* We take the 6 October long weekend off for this course

$540 / bring your own oil or acrylic paint & mediums

Tutor: Carmel Byrne

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This is a follow up course to Painting for Beginners. Painting II takes students to the next step making a close study of a self chosen Master Painting. Because painting is a multi-layered, complicated process it’s of high value to analyse and study a master painting. With this approach the tone and structure of the painting is fairly easy to emulate and then more time can be spent focussing on colour and brushwork which is what we consider the heart and soul of a painting especially when heightened with a solid, logical underlying structure.

Students can select an artist and together we nut out how the painting was constructed, the brushwork and colour mixes. Students can use acrylic and/or oil paint.

We’ve had remarkable results with this course. See images of previous student works below.

This is an intermediate course. Contact us if you’re unsure of your skill-level

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Week 1: Preparation / Prepare supports for painting, and begin studies of the chosen work.
Week 2: Layer 1 / Analyse how the first layer of the painting was made with lean, fast drying colour
Week 3: Layer 2 / Figure out the structure of the composition
Week 4: Layer 3 / Figure out the tonal plan
Week 5: Layer 4 / Figure out the colour plan
Week 6: Layer 5 / Tweak you own changes
Week 7: Layer 6 / Refine colour saturation, highlights and shadows