Our Painting Course for Beginners
🖌️ What You’ll Learn:
• Key painting vocabulary: understand terms like temperature, colour value, blending, layering, and composition
• How to use essential painting tools and materials such as brushes, palettes, and paints
• Core techniques: colour mixing, brush control, layering, and creating depth
• How to observe like a painter—training your eye to see colour relationships, light, and atmosphere
🎨 Learn by Doing:
You’ll apply these concepts right away through a series of guided painting exercises, progressing from simple studies to more developed compositions. This step-by-step approach helps you build confidence with colour, brushwork, and visual observation while creating beautiful finished paintings along the way.
Still life arrangement 1
We start with simple objects and learn how to apply the basic principles of painting form, colour, and light.
What this arrangement will teach you:
• How to mix and match colours to achieve natural tones
• Understanding the difference between light, mid-tones, and shadows in painting
• How to paint simple forms such as round , curved and irregular surfaces
Still life arrangement 2
We move on to more complex items and learn how to thoughtfully compose them while developing brush control and colour relationships.
What this arrangement will teach you:
• How to identify and emphasise the focal point of your painting
• How brushwork and colour variation influence depth and perspective
• How to paint both smooth and textured surfaces
Still life arrangement 3
We finish the course with a still life arrangement of multiple objects, including reflective and contrasting materials, allowing you to bring together all the techniques learned.
What this arrangement will teach you:
• The importance of reflected light and colour interaction between objects
• Understanding the difference between value and colour intensity
• How to paint reflective and glass surfaces effectively
