Still Life Painting - Summer 2025

Date: Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 July 2025, 10:30am -3:00pm
Course length: weekend 
Price: £150
Tutor: Christopher Holloway
Level: All Welcome 

Still Life Painting has remained a popular subject matter throughout the history of art and maintains its importance as a subject for painting today.

‘Still Life Painting – Composition and Colour’ is a two-day class which explores the technical aspects of painting in oil or acrylic, with a study of composition, colour mixing practice, and observation. 


Working with everyday objects brought into the studio space for their possibilities of colour, shape, shadow and line. We will work with a variety of approaches to observation, including preliminary sketching and how to select and improve upon a composition. Experimenting with initial colour studies will and enhance our understanding of mixing practice, all of which will lead us to producing a final painting composition(s).

The class will be suitable for those who wish to develop their painting experience with oil or acrylic, whilst seeking tuition with regards to the technical and formal aspects of painting objects in space, from life. 

This is a taught class within a studio environment, where one to one tuition and feedback will be provided throughout the experience.


What do students need to bring with them?

Students to bring with them: Student or Artist Quality Oil / Acrylic Colour: 

• Warm Red e.g - Cadmium Red 
• Cool Red e.g - Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Red 
• Warm Blue e.g – Cerulean, Manganese or Pthalo Blue
• Cool Blue e.g - Ultramarine Blue
• Warm Yellow e.g - Cadmium Yellow
• Cool Yellow e.g - Lemon Yellow
• Yellow Ochre
• Viridian Green
• Titanium White
• Black

Students may bring additional colours if they wish.

Also: rags, palette, palette knives, masking tape, flat and or round brushes - if possible sizes 2, 4 and 8, low odour artist white spirit or turpentine (for oil painters), brush washing jar, drawing materials (pencil, charcoal, eraser), an apron may be useful.

Various sized surfaces to paint onto such as – Primed canvas, canvas board, primed oil paper / acrylic paper pad, primed boards, whichever you feel comfortable using.