Still Life Painting in Oils
Tutors: Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco and Kim Scouller
Saturdays 10am-4pm | 12 weeks
Build or enhance your oil painting skills with our Still Life Painting in Oils course, open to beginners as well as experienced artists. This hands-on oil painting class explores both traditional techniques and contemporary approaches to still life, helping you deepen your understanding of design, lighting, color, and form. Still life also makes for the best introduction to oil painting.
Through practical, studio-based sessions, you’ll gain greater confidence and creative control over the painting process. With personalized guidance and ongoing support from an experienced tutor, you’ll learn about materials, putting together a still life arrangement, rules of composition (and how to break them) as well as developing your technical abilities in your own artistic style. This course provides the structured yet flexible learning environment you need in a very spacious and quiet studio where you can work at your own pace.
No previous experience with oil painting is required. Students are required to bring their own materials and should refer to the materials list below before their course starts. (#SA33)

Course Information
Still Life Painting in Oils
Please bring these materials with you:
Oil paints (artist’s range) 38ml tubes
• Titanium White
• Lemon Yellow
• Cadmium Yellow
• Cadmium Red
• Alizarin Crimson
• Cobalt Blue
• Ultramarine Blue
• Low odour thinners (sold in school shop)
Do bring other colours if you have them, these might include yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber etc.
Please only bring low odour thinners with you or buy them from us. For health & safety reasons we do not allow the use of white spirit or turpentine at Heatherleys.
• A variety of brushes
• Large tear-off or wooden palette
• Dippers / Jar
• Palette knife
• Kitchen roll / old rags
Optional
• Purified Linseed Oil
• Apron