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Intermediate Oil Painting Course November-December 2025

€300.00

Course start date: 13th November 2025

Course duration: Total of 6 Classes, on Thursdays from 18:30 to 21:00

What’s included: All painting materials + canvas

Course Description

Step beyond the fundamentals and develop greater confidence, expression, and technical control in oil painting. Over six weeks, you’ll explore how to deepen compositions with underpainting, build textures, harmonize colour, and place figures within complex environments.

This course is ideal for artists who already have some oil experience and want to move from foundational practice toward more ambitious, expressive work that shows technical control and personal voice.

Course start date: 13th November 2025

Course duration: Total of 6 Classes, on Thursdays from 18:30 to 21:00

What’s included: All painting materials + canvas

Course Description

Step beyond the fundamentals and develop greater confidence, expression, and technical control in oil painting. Over six weeks, you’ll explore how to deepen compositions with underpainting, build textures, harmonize colour, and place figures within complex environments.

This course is ideal for artists who already have some oil experience and want to move from foundational practice toward more ambitious, expressive work that shows technical control and personal voice.

Course Program

An oil painting of two figures, one pouring tea and the other reaching for oranges, with a glowing highlight in the center, creating warmth in the scene.

Lesson 1 – Foundations in Underpainting & Value Structure

·         • Warm-up exercises in tonal observation

·         • Create a monochrome or limited-palette underpainting to map out values

·         • Discussion: how underpainting influences final layers

 

Lesson 2

Painting of four deer in a colorful forest, with streaks of orange and pink in the background and teal and blue hues highlighting the deer in the foreground.

Lesson 2 – Colour Harmony & Surface Interaction

·         • Develop a refined palette (complementary / analogous strategies)

·         • Paint small studies of different surfaces (glass, wood, metal) to observe how light shifts hue & saturation

·         • Exercises in colour unification

 

Lesson 3

Lesson 3 – Fabric, Folds & Texture

·         • Study drapery: gravity, fold logic, cast shadows

·         • Apply glazing, scumbling, and impasto to create believable textures

·         • Experiment with brush direction and edge control

 

Lesson 4

Lesson 4 – Interior Composition & Spatial Depth

·         • Sketch and plan an interior scene integrating multiple textures

·         • Introduce perspective and atmospheric depth

·         • Start block-in of the interior painting

Lesson 5

Alvira Ferreira’s oil painting of people relaxing at Silvermine Dam, reinterpreting classic outdoor scenes with vibrant colors.

Lesson 5 – The Human Figure in Context

·         • Gesture drawing and proportion review

·       • Block in figure within your interior

·         • Refine light and shadow transitions on skin, clothing, and surroundings

Lesson 6

Make it stand out

Lesson 6 – Final Project & Artist Voice

·         • Complete and refine your painting

·         • Use glazing, edge control, and colour adjustments for cohesion

·         • Group critique, reflections, and next steps

Learning Outcomes

• Stronger ability to plan through underpainting and value structure

• Mastery in harmonizing colour across different surfaces

• Enhanced skill in rendering textures (fabric, metal, glass, skin)

• Confidence in composing more complex interior or figure-based scenes

• A finished piece that synthesizes technique and personal expression

 
 

Course Schedule

13th of November 2025 18:30 - 21:00

20th of November 2025 18:30 - 21:00

27th of November 2025 18:30 - 21:00

4th of December 2025 18:30 - 21:00

11th of December 2025 18:30 - 21:00

18th of December 2025 18:30 - 21:00

Course Location

Art Space: 421 Rue de Neudorf, 2220 Neudorf-Weimershof Luxembourg