Studying Old Masters

Tuesday 26 March 2024, 1pm–3pm

Artist Niall McLaughlin returns to Age Concern, Chapel Road, Derry~Londonderry to deliver an oil painting workshop. Participants will start the session by studying Old Master's paintings to explore the fundamentals of drawing, colour and composition, which makes the work of the masters still effective today. Then Niall will help participants identify and isolate close up crops of these works to create pleasing and exciting compositions, which they will be encouraged to add their own individual expression onto. By making A5 sized oil paintings of these crops, participants will be able to leave with their own works which, although informed by the masters, appear wholly new and unique. All materials are provided, including a selection of printed images to study.

This workshop builds on our partnership with Age Concern, when Niall delivered Still Life Painting in Oil in November 2022 and we invited artist and scholar Lyndsey McDougall to deliver an eco bundle dye workshop in November 2021.