6-Week Introduction to Oil Painting

with artist and tutor David Caldwell RP Mondays 10:30am-12:30pm

Starts Feb 3

240 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

This 6 week course is designed for those completely new to Oil painting, to allow you to explore the medium in a completely approachable way. Oils are one of the most forgiving of mediums and are often mistaken or thought about as out of reach or a little scary! - not the case! Come and discover this for yourself with the wonderful David Caldwell RP, with his gentle and calm approach to handling paint and teaching. Over 6 weeks you will explore - The fundamentals of Colour Theory - Colour Mixing - Basic materials and their uses - Painting very simple objects to support your intro to the medium Materials to bring you can pick up in any art store or online: Student grade oil paint set Linseed oil Odourless solvent A canvas pad or painting panels sizes approximately A4 or A3 Some paint brushes for oil (We do not use this for painting only for wiping brushes at the end of sessions) If you do not have all materials we can help you out the first week on Monday 27th January

Upcoming Sessions

Cancellation Policy

We will provide a 50% refund if you give written advance notice up to 30 days before the course start date. 0% refund 30 days before a course starts. Please note there is an administration fee of £5 payable in respect of such refunds to cover payment processing fees. You will need to inform a member of administration staff in writing by emailing EDS at info@edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk. Additionally, if you withdraw for any reason after the course has started you will not be entitled to a refund. We are a small business and we depend on every booking to ensure that classes can go ahead. If a tutor has to withdraw from teaching the scheduled course for any reason (medical/personal/professional) before the start of a scheduled course, during a scheduled course, if the course is 8 weeks long or scheduled as x3 terms of 8 weeks long each, The Edinburgh Drawing School will find a replacement tutor for the course designed by that tutor for The Edinburgh Drawing School. The course content will be the same as the originally booked course. A student will not be entitled to a refund should the school have no option but to find a replacement tutor. If a tutor leaves and starts work elsewhere, and a student prefers to take classes with them personally at the tutor's new workplace, that is at the discretion of the student and no refund is entitled to them or will be given. If a student is unable to attend a class due to medical/personal/professional reasons, then EDS must be informed immediately so that the tutor can be notified. If you are missing a class because you suspect that you have developed Covid-19, please let us know immediately so that we can alert fellow student and tutors. Non-attendance of classes/workshops does not automatically mean a refund, however EDS will assess the circumstance