Painting classes

Learning to paint

Delphine du Mérac offers painting classes in her studio. Because it is hard to paint at home, on your own. And also because you need to acquire techniques to go further in your ability to express yourself.

At the Atelier du Mérac, you can learn the basics of painting: making a sketch, composing the picture, harmony of colours and tones, values and so on. But also the techniques of flat colour, glazing and wash. You will learn to choose your brushes well and to make your own colours by mixing pigments. Gouache and acrylic are offered, as well as Indian ink and coloured inks.

Everyone sets the tone of their own learning. Everyone chooses their own subject (photographs, paintings, objects, imagination). In the studio there are plenty of sources of inspiration (folders sorted by theme). You can also start from your own imagination. The painting class is not academic: Delphine adapts to each student. Everyone comes to the studio with what they already know and what they want to do. It is perfectly possible to start a session with painting and then move on to drawing. Just as you can start a painting by working on a sketch.

You can paint on paper or on canvas boards. The price of the classes includes a materials fee of €1.50 per class, a small contribution towards costs. For this fee, the studio provides the basic materials (paint, brushes and pencils, canvas boards and canvas paper up to 50 x 65 cm); for stretched canvases, remember to bring your own.

Halfway through the class, there is a coffee break, to step back from the work in progress. It is also a chance to talk about all sorts of subjects related to art, to exhibitions, and even to films worth seeing!