Key Facts
- suitable for all levels
- accommodation included
- professional instruction
- ideal for beginners
Included
Accommodation (full board basis), professional tuition, Ferry trip to the islands, Half a bottle of wine at dinner.
Not included
Transfer to/from Faro, Materials, TipsA popular course, which would include sketching in the mornings and turning your sketches into paintings in the afternoon. Some days are spent all day working on a painting and other day’s guests will have an opportunity to paint outside or practice incorporating tonal ranges and colours. The use of tone contrast and tone balance can transform a painting. All courses will include demonstrations and talks on mixing colour, preparing canvases and brushes and talks on composition.
Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the figure onto the canvas with charcoal or a “clean,” which is thinned paint. Oil paint can be mixed with turpentine or other solvents to create a thinner, faster drying paint. Then the artist builds the figure in layers. A basic rule of oil paint application is “fat over lean” This means that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below to allow proper drying. If each additional layer contains less oil, the final painting will crack and peel.Oil paint enables both a fusion of tones and crisp effects and is unsurpassed for textural variation. It is applied with brushes or thin palette knifes, whether you are a novice or experienced in oil painting come and join a course to practice these different techniques or mix with other people who also love oils.
We also run specialist course on other weeks please check out our dates and prices page or contact us for more information.
We also run specialist course on other weeks, please check out our dates and prices page or contact us for more information.
This is a sample itinerary of a typical oil painting course.
Once you have arrived in Olhao there will be time to unpack and settle into your accommodation before a welcome meeting in the Art School at 6:30pm. There you will have drinks and discuss the week’s itinerary and how you will be placing orders for the evening meals etc. Following this you will be taken to dinner in one of the local restaurants.
10:00 : Meet at the school. The morning is spent out and about in Olhao, sketching something that you wouldn’t normally see in London. We will all stick together as a group making notes and mini sketches throughout.
13:00 : Lunch in Olhao, usually a buffet consisting of fresh salads and a selection of local dishes.
16:00 – 18:00 : Everyone to meet back in the Studio and the afternoon will be spent turning your best sketch into a painting.
20:00 : Dinner is at one of the many local restaurants along the seafront of Olhao, this is time to reflect on the day’s activities.
10:00 : Meet at the school. The morning will be spent completing a painting on-site. The theme is architecture and guests can choose from painting the Church, or some of the wonderful buildings and windows on the Avenida by the Church.
13:00 : Lunch in Olhao, usually a buffet consisting of fresh salads and a selection of local dishes.
15:00 : Meet back at the studio. Your teacher will give a demonstration on how to mix colours, you will also explore how to work with neutral colours.
20:00 : Dinner is at one of the many local restaurants along the seafront of Olhao, this is time to reflect on the day’s activities.
10:30 : Meet at the School. Today is a break from the course, guests will be going on a day trip to the island of Farol. You are invited to bring your sketch book should you wish to sketch on the island, there is a wonderful light house which can be sketched or painted. Please remember to bring towels, sun-cream, hats etc as it can be very hot with little shade. Lunch is on the island and you will catch the 16:00 ferry back to Olhao.
20:00 : Dinner is at one of the many local restaurants along the seafront of Olhao, this is time to reflect on the day’s activities.
10:00 : Meet at the School. Today’s theme is the Market place and the morning will be spent at both markets sketching. Your art teacher will take some fruit and fish back to the studio for the afternoon session. There are several different colours to be seen ranging from neutral colours through to vibrant colours, remembering mondays demonstration on colour mixing and working with neutral colours students will put this into practice.
13:00 : Lunch in Olhao, usually a buffet consisting of fresh salads and a selection of local dishes.
15:00 : Expanding on the mornings theme the afternoon will be spent working on colours and neutral colours with the fruit and fish. Working on still life from late morning through to end of day.
20:00 : Dinner is at one of the many local restaurants along the seafront of Olhao, this is time to reflect on the day’s activities.
10:00 : Meet at the School. Today’s theme is boats and the harbour. You will have a choice to either sketch in the morning and return to the Studio in the afternoon to complete your painting, or you can spend all day out at the harbour painting. Today you will be paying attention to the composition of the painting.
13:00 : Lunch in Olhao, usually a buffet consisting of fresh salads and a selection of local dishes.
15:00 : Continue with painting from the morning session.
20:00 : Dinner is at one of the many local restaurants along the seafront of Olhao, this is time to reflect on the day’s activities.
10:00 : Meet at the School. Today you will be visiting the island of Culatra for sketching and painting. The theme is fishermen and fishing boats, practising the use of composition form thursday’s painting. You will need to bring all materials required and remember sun-cream and sun hats are advisable. You will return to Olhao around midday.
13:00 : Lunch in Olhao, usually a buffet consisting of fresh salads and a selection of local dishes.
Afternoon : Free afternoon for shopping. Your teacher will be in the studio for anyone who is interested to continue with their paintings.
18:30 : Exhibition at the Art Bar. A chance to show off your work from the week, followed by dinner at one of Olhao’s local restaurants.
10:30 : After breakfast you we ask that you vacate your rooms by 10.30 to allow time to change over the rooms for the next course. There is an excellent market in Olhao on a Saturday morning for any last minute souvenirs before your return / transfer to Faro and your onward connections. Extra days stay are available on request.