Introduction to Oil Painting with Amy Jobes

If you have ever wanted to try your hand at oil painting and simply don't know where to start, this beginners workshop with Amy Jobes will help unleash your creativity. Amy will guide you step by step to create an expressive landscape oil painting. This class will cover basic traditional techniques and methods, whilst helping you to let go of feeling anxious or precious about your work. This includes: Composition ideas, how to start using a sketch and ground, how to create depth with tone, working from dark to light, muted vs saturated colours, impasto mark marking.

Please bring with you:

​Oil paint colours

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• Titanium White (I use Alkyd Titanium White to speed up drying time)
• Lemon Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Hue Light (I use Cadmium Hues as they are less toxic)
• Cadmium Yellow Hue or Permanent Yellow Deep
• Burnt Sienna
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cerulean Blue
• Phthalo Blue
• Cadmium Red Hue or Scarlet (I use Cadmium Hues as they are less toxic)
• Alizarin Crimson
• Buff titanium
  

If you are just starting out I recommend purchasing this set of oil paints from Cass Art as it has warm and cool versions of each primary colour.

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Other colours I find useful:

• Yellow Ochre
• Raw Umber
• Naples Orange
• Pale Rose Blush
• Permanent Magenta
• Colbalt Blue
• Turquoise
• Sap Green
• Paynes Grey

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Mediums and solvents

• Low odour white spirit (or Zest It or Gamsol. Please not Turpentine as the fumes are really bad!)
• Liquin

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Brushes and Palette Knives

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• Palette knife for mixing colours. If purchasing a new palette knife I prefer large tapered knives.
• 2 large house brushes (from a DIY store is fine)
• 1 or two fan brushes
• A selection of firm bristle or hogs hair brushes, for oil painting. For example; 2 small brushes for fine detail, 2 medium round brushes and 2 medium flat brushes

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Surface

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• Stretched canvas or canvas board approx. 16 x 12 inches​

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Other

• Tear-off palette (available from The Works)
• Two empty jam jars with lids for the white spirit
• An old rag for wiping away paint
• Kitchen roll or blue roll for cleaning and drying palette knife and brushes
• HB or 2B pencil
• 30cm ruler
• A packed lunch if attending a whole day workshop

If you need to order materials

Amy is able to provide all materials for an additional £15 per attendee.
Please email YW15IHwgYW15am9iZXMgISBjb20= at least one week in advance of the workshop, using the email title 'Studio KIND materials'. Payment can be made on the day of the event by cash or card.

Amy Jobes is a professional landscape artist based in North Devon. She is self-taught and has been selling work since she the age of 15. Since moving to Devon with her family in 2013, Amy has concentrated on creating abstracted oil and mixed media paintings inspired by her local beaches and moorlands. Although her work is based on traditional methods, Amy takes an intuitive approach to painting expressive and emotive pieces created from the heart.

There will be a lunch break, so feel free to bring a packed lunch. Alternatively, there are some food stalls just outside in the pannier market, or coffee shops and bakerys along Butchers Row.

We recoment you wrap up warm, although our workshops are held insdoors the gallery tends to be on the colder side in the winter months, so please do make sure to have afew on layers.

We are now offering 15% discount for students! Students must bring their photo ID along with them to the event. Use code STUDENT at checkout to apply your discount.

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