Floral Still Life Painting in Oil

with artist & tutor David Caldwell RP Thursdays 1.30 - 4pm

Starts Jan 16, 2025

320 British pounds

Great King Street

Available spots

Service Description

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of oil painting through still-life and flower painting. We will look at tone, colour mixing and composition, as well as learning about the materials and techniques of oil painting. We will look at examples of still-life throughout art history drawing inspiration and guidance from masterworks of the genre. We will work on 4x 2 week still-life set-ups each focusing on a different aspect. Materials A range of oil colours including: black, white, yellow ochre, Red oxide (for example Indian Red), cadmium lemon (or similar), French ultramarine, burnt sienna, alizarin crimson. Optional additional colours: cobalt blue, burnt umber, raw umber, raw sienna, cadmium red (or similar), Prussian blue. A range of brushes including long flat or filbert hog hair brushes, and soft sable or synthetic sable brushes in both round and flat. A palette knife for mixing. Painting surfaces: 4x boards, canvases or paper/card, gesso primed (either pre prepared or home-made). Size A3 or similar Eco friendly thinners such as gamsol or sansodor, and linseed oil. Rags for cleaning. A palette Jars for thinners and painting mediums. David Caldwell was born in Helensburgh in the West of Scotland in 1977. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1994-98) and the Royal Drawing School (2003-05). He has won several awards and residencies including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Bulldog Bursary, the Founder’s Purchase Prize at the ING Discerning Eye (adjudged by the late Brian Sewell), and the Smallwood Architects Prize at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019. He has twice been short-listed for the BP Portrait Awards, where in 2013 he displayed 77 miniature portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. He has recently been short-listed for various other major awards including the Seven Investments Management ‘Conversations’ Prize, the Ruth Borchard Self-portrait Prize, the Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Award and the W. Gordon Smith Award. David lives and works as an artist and portrait painter in Glasgow. David paints from life in oils. His work reflects his immediate environment and features the people, landscapes and things that he directly engages with. David strives to make something permanent of the fleeting, to build layers of time and looking into one distilled image, he is a wonderful tutor and any student will be privileged to learn under his instruction.

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