Lin offers oil painting workshops including drop-in sessions and half- or whole-day courses.
Limetrees Studios: Drop-in Tuesdays
10.30 – 1.30 Multi-level – Still Life or Landscape
You may join as an absolute beginner or pursue your own agenda with guidance.
Drop-in Tuesdays will run on most Tuesdays during school term time.
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
You need to book in advance – to find out more or book your place, email Lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk.
Ardington School of Craft: Flowers
Thursday 28 September 2017
9.45am – 4.30pm
Level: Beginner and anyone who’d like to start at the beginning.
Flower paintings have been popular since the 17th century and range from realistic paintings to loose, impressionistic paintings. We’ll work from observation and we’ll aim to evoke the flower rather than to produce a slavish study. This day is aimed at being enjoyable and an introduction to using oil paints
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
Book directly at Ardington School of Craft
Ardington School of Craft: Light and Shade
Friday 03 November 2017
9.45am – 4.30pm
Level: Multi-level
Using a constructed box and lighting, in which to place the still-life, we’ll create strong shadows and reflections. You will have a choice of painting something like a pottery vase or a glass bottle/vase.
The container may hold a simple plant /greenery/flower or be set-up with pebbles or feathers.
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
Book directly at Ardington School of Craft
Limetrees Studio: Learn to paint in oils confidently in two days.
Saturday and Sunday 20 – 21 January 2018: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Level: Beginner and anyone who’d like to start at the beginning.
We’ll explore tonal values, how to mix colours accurately and different ways of applying oil paints.
By the end of the two day course, you’ll have a couple of small completed canvases.
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
You need to book in advance – to find out more or book your place, email Lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk.
Limetrees Studio: Oils with a palette Knife
Saturday 10 February 2018: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Level: Multi-level
It is possible to do a whole yummy paint with thick impasto, using just a palette knife.
Lin will teach you various techniques from thin lines to scumbling and mixing your colour on the canvas.
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
You need to book in advance – to find out more or book your place, email Lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk.
Limetrees Studio: A weekend of landscape painting
Saturday 24-25 February 2018: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Level: Multi-level
Working from your own photos we will work out how to paint an evocative landscape that will recapture the mood of the view.
Easels and palettes are supplied and you may you may opt to use Lin’s paints and brushes.
You need to book in advance – to find out more or book your place, email Lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk.
OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL
30 July – 3 August 2018
I will be teaching a two day course for beginners and not-quite beginners and a 3-day multi-level course.
This year the theme will be landscape. Details will be released by Oxford Summer School in late December. These courses are extremely popular and fill up quickly, so keep a lookout on the Oxford Summer School Arts, Crafts, Music website.
For Gift Vouchers for any amount towards a course at Limetrees Studio, Contact Lin
Prices
Most workshops at Limetrees are £25 for a half day or £50 for a full day if you use your own materials.
If Lin supplies the paints and brushes, courses are £30 per half day or £55 per full day. Lin always supplies palettes and easels (for standing or sitting)
Courses at Ardington cost a little more, but a tasty lunch is included and it’s a luxury day out in a beautiful traditional venue.
More detail about the Workshops:
What the students say
Lin’s way of teaching oils (and Art)
Oils paints vs. water-mixable oils vs. acrylic paints
Lin Kerr: Teaching experience and qualifications
Health and Safety
View the following blog-posts:
Teaching oil painting to beginners
Their first oil paintings
Preparing the Ground – Gesso
Are oil paints toxic?