Oil Painting (Taught in Arabic) - VCUQatar Community Classes - February

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Oil Painting is a stunning way of using oil to carry the colours. Learning to paint through using pigments to make different colours and experimenting with water and oil is indeed a wonderful way to explore Art.

VCUQatar is offering Oil Painting classes in Arabic this spring. Participants must buy their own materials and bring along. Payment can be made online here or visit the VCUQatar shop in-person registration. 

Here are the details

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The classes cover all aspects of oil painting basics; from looking at and understanding a still life, preparing a background, placing the subject on the format, sketching it roughly, color mixing and application, tonal understanding and shading to create 3d Illusion, wet in wet painting technique and layered final touches.

Note: The class is taught in Arabic, however, English Speakers are welcomed too

Start: Thu, 5 Feb, 2015

End: Thu, 9 Apr, 2015

Lessons: 8, no classes on March 5th and 12th

Days: Thursdays

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: VCUQatar, Room 286

(GPS Location of VCUQatar can be found at www.rush360.qa by searching for VCUQatar)

Cost: QAR 1,200 / US$ 330

Class Outline

• Introduction to oil color painting – show a collection of master pieces oil painting examples, showing how to begin painting , how to use the tools and materials.
• Will focus how to enable the student to develop drawing, painting skills and control the paint. How to choose objects and design an artistic composition to create balanced and beautiful painting, and Improving the observation of the color and objects, begin the first Still Life painting.
• View the shadows and highlights effects, how to put layers and underlying colors through Painting from still life using painting techniques for Still life drawing. How to choose color schemes, mixing and blending the oil colors, Continuing the still life Painting
• Starting the Second still life Painting
• Continuing the still life Painting
• Beginning in the third project: show a variety of oil colors landscape painting examples. Introduction to draw and paint land scape compositions, - Painting from photograph or copying from a master piece
• Continuing the landscape Painting, using painting techniques for landscape drawing , How to choose colors , mixing and blending it
• Finishing the Land scape Painting.

For details of the Instructor and more please visit http://www.qatar.vcu.edu/community/5-oil-painting-taught-in-arabic

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