Date: Saturday 14 & Saturday 21 November 2026
Time: 10.30 AM - 4.30 PM
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £360
Exploring Tone, Colour & Brushwork
On this course, you will make three painterly studies. Using modern artists as inspiration, you will consider techniques in observation and brushwork while exploring tone and colour.
The course will examine and draw inspiration from 20th- and 21st-century still-life painters including Van Gogh, Matisse, Cézanne, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Morandi. Through demonstrations and guidance, you can expect to familiarise yourself with the tools of the oil painter while learning techniques to improve fluency and accuracy in your painting.
On the first Saturday, you will begin with a speedy monochrome oil study to explore the importance of tone and good palette organisation. You will then begin a second oil study using a limited palette, learning to mix subtle hues and explore colour temperature, transparency and opacity, and colour contrast to help you make colour substitutions.
On the second Saturday, you will put your colour-mixing knowledge into practice, making your third and final painting while attempting to mix local areas of colour using an extended cadmium palette. A life model will be provided for this session, giving you the opportunity to apply your developing observational and colour skills.
Structured teaching and demonstrations will be balanced with an approach that encourages playfulness and exploration while painting.
Included with your booking
All course materials
Refreshments and snacks provided
Please email us in advance with any dietary requirements or allergies so we can make suitable arrangements for lunch and refreshments.
By the end of the course, you will feel more confident mixing tonal values and hues and using the tools and techniques of the oil painter.
All art materials are provided by Green & Stone.
Kim Scouller
Kim Scouller studied drawing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee before completing the postgraduate programme at The Royal Drawing School, London (graduating in 2008). Her work has been exhibited widely, including the BP Portrait Award, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition and the Scottish Portrait Awards and is held in many private collections. She has been awarded several prizes for her work including the Aspect Prize and the Anna Miller Trust Scholarship supporting female Scottish artists.
‘I paint from my immediate surroundings using bold colour and lively brushwork to capture the essential character of my subjects. The modest scale of the paintings allows the subject matter to become the focus for painterly exercises in colour, form and style moulding them into my vision of heightened reality.‘
To learn more about Kim, please visit her website here.
Kim’s Instagram, here.