Oil Painting — High Low Art Space

Master Copy In Oils

7 WEEK COURSE

Wednesdays 6:30-9:00 PM

jan 7 - feb 18 2026

WITH RYAN CHAPMAN

ALL LEVELS WELCOME

price: $265

class summary

Learn to enhance your skills as a painter through studying the great works of the old masters. Copying masterworks has always been tradition of great artists of the past as it allows us a glimpse into the techniques used by the artists that we look to for inspiration. In this Class, students will choose their own master artworks to study from where we will study techniques such as glazing, alla prima painting and more!

No prior experience is required! As we keep class sizes small, our instructors can cater to each student’s individual skill level.

MATERIALS

I will be going over materials on the first day, so you will not need to have everything on day 1.

Bring along a sketchbook for warm-ups! If you’re unsure about any of these we can answer any questions you may have about materials on the first day of class

Various Sized Canvas Boards or Stretched Canvas (8x10 or 11x14 should be good) Returning Students are recommended to use larger canvases for Master copies
A 9x12 Fredrix Canvas Pad Or Larger
Various Sized Brushes For Oil painting (good mix of synthetic and bristle brushes is recommended.)
Palette or Palette Paper
Pencils For Drawing (HB, 2B, 4B)
Recommended Oil Paint Colors (Gamblin and Winsor Newton are good brands):
- Titanium White
- Raw Umber
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Red (Medium or Light)
- Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Magenta
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Yellow (Medium, Light or Cad Lemon)
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Ivory Black
- + Any Other Colors You Want to Bring
Palette Knife (For Mixing)
Odorless Mineral Spirit (Gamsol Is Best) Please no Turpentine!
Linseed Oil (optional)
Paper Towels
A Drawing Board or Large Clipboard (You’ll really want this for transporting your artwork)
Box for Palette/Wet Painting

SYLLABUS

Here’s a rough outline of what we’ll be covering!

Week 1 Overview of materials. How To choose the right artist to study from.

Week 2 Outlining your painting (Drawing and Proportion)

Week 3 Alla Prima Painting

Week 4 Underpainting

Week 5 Glazing & Scumbling

Week 6 Paint Mixing and Color Harmony

Week 7 Finishing a painting

REFUNDS

Please contact us at least 1 week before class for a full refund. Unfortunately due to our limited class sizes we cannot process refunds after this time. Transfers to other classes are usually possible

It is possible that a class is cancelled if an inadequate number of students register. In this case, tuition will be promptly refunded