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:
Packed lunch
2 x canvases or canvas boards approx. 16 x 12 inches
Tear-off palette (available from The Works)
Liquin
Low Odour White Spirit
Two empty jam jars with lid for the white spirit
An old rag for wiping away paint
Kitchen roll
Palette knife or old credit card. If purchasing a new palette knife I prefer large tapered knives
2 large brushes (from a DIY store is fine)
1 fan brush
A selection of hogs hair brushes, for oil painting.
For example, 2 small 2 medium round brushes and 2 medium flat brushes for example
Oil paints:
Alkyd Titanium white (at least 40ml)
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo blue
Turquoise
Lemon yellow
Rose Madder or similar bright pink
Buff titanium
Any other colours that you love!
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.
Please note this workshop is taking place in our NEW venue at The Corn Store, part of Barnstaple’s Pannier Market. There is disabled access and disabled toilets. Barnstaple is served by a number of bus and train options, and there is parking close-by.
