This 3x half-day course with Tony Hinchliffe is for artists who have some experience of painting in watercolours or acrylics and wish to move to oil. It’s also a fantastic course for self-taught oil painters who want to increase their knowledge of using oils. Once you have these basics and become familiar with how the paint works, add a little imagination and the possibilities for depicting the world in front of you, it can become all-consuming and very exciting.
Tony Hinchliffe, One Reason or Another
How it works
Introduction to Oils is based around three progressive workshop days, where you’ll be learning about essential processes with hands on learning. Over three days, you’ll receive straightforward, structured, practical tuition in oils, aimed at getting you painting in oils at home.
If you already work in another medium or are untutored in oils, you’ll find the course will enable you to learn a more structured way of working, so your creativity can flourish.
Three days of structured specialist oils tuition, which means you get a focused and proven learning experience
Explanation, hands on painting and demonstration-led learning, by your tutor
All materials and notes are included, so you don’t need to bring a thing or worry about what you need for the course
Learn various different approaches to in painting in oils, dry brush, wet on wet, palette knife, and creating a tonal under painting - this can be a great way to solve tonal and colour considerations early on
Learn how to manage your palette, string out groups of colour, keep colour mixing accurate and clean, skills which are essential for any serious further study of oil painting
Learn our method for professional colour mixing, which also works for any other paint medium such as acrylic or watercolour
You can take elements of all the techniques that Tony will be showing you in this course as a basis for developing your own style
Tony Hinchliffe, Seagulls II
Week one
Tony will talk about different painting surfaces, how mediums work with oil paint, brushes, working with a simple colour pallet and how to keep your colours clean. He will show how easy colour mixing can be with three primary colours and white.
In this first week, you will paint a simple still life creating a tonal underpainting first to familiarise yourself with oil paint and an opportunity to consider darks and lights in a little more detail. You will then develop the colour saturation into your painting using a few simple colour checking techniques.
Tony Hinchliffe, Promise
Week two
Figurative painting – this week you will work from a photograph of a figure, considering a simple composition then create a tonal underpainting using a fast drying medium. We will then start grouping and stringing out the colours to be used in your painting, with this preliminary work the painting process will become much easier.
Tony Hinchliffe, Day Dreaming
Week three
This week you will paint a seascape. Oil paint is a great medium for painting skies, it can be blended very easily and you have lots of drying time, so you can make your blends really soft. We will go through the process of painting clouds using several different techniques including impasto painting with a palette knife.
Tony Hinchliffe, Boats on the Beach
What you need to bring
Just bring yourself (and maybe some packed lunch!). We will take a short break at about 12pm for lunch/refreshments. Wear old clothes or bring an old shirt/apron and old shoes. If you have your own palette and brushes, feel free to bring them.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are available.
What is included
Oil paint, paint brushes, palette knives, pots, palette, white spirits, fast drying medium, and primed 3mm hard board.
Fully booked
Booking
The cost is £120 per person and the workshop is suitable for ages 16+. Please book direct with the tutor by emailing tony@hinchliffeart.co.uk or telephone 07884 365896. Places are limited to 12, so we recommend you book early to avoid disappointment.
About the tutor
Tony Hinchliffe currently works as a full time artist, selling the copyright and original works worldwide through his agent Advocate Art. A member of the Oxford Arts Society and regularly exhibiting at the Royal society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, which is recognised as the most prestigious and varied exhibition of marine art in the UK. Tony works in watercolour, acrylics and oils depending on his subject. See www.hinchliffeart.co.uk.