Amy Jobes Art Workshops
Oil painting workshops
Come and paint with me!
Spend a day with me creating your very own beautiful original oil painting!
Upcoming workshops include:​
Sunday 19 January 2025 10.30am - 3.30pm SOLD OUT
Introduction to oil painting with Amy Jobes at Studio Kind at the Corn Store, Barnstaple.
5 hour workshop introducing the basics of landscape oil painting.
Bring your own materials or pre-order from me for £15.
Book via Eventbrite​​
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Sunday 16 March 2025 10.30am - 3.30pm
Introduction to oil painting with Amy Jobes at Studio Kind at the Corn Store, Barnstaple.
5 hour workshop introducing the basics of landscape oil painting.
Bring your own materials or pre-order from me for £15 email amy@amyjobes.com
Book via Eventbrite
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Sunday 31 August 2025 10.30am - 3.30pm
Introduction to oil painting with Amy Jobes at Studio Kind at the Corn Store, Barnstaple.
5 hour workshop introducing the basics of landscape oil painting.
Bring your own materials or pre-order from me for £15 email amy@amyjobes.com
Booking details coming soon
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Sunday 30 November 2025 10.30am - 3.30pm
Introduction to oil painting with Amy Jobes at Studio Kind at the Corn Store, Barnstaple.
5 hour workshop introducing the basics of landscape oil painting.
Bring your own materials or pre-order from me for £15 email amy@amyjobes.com
Booking details coming soon
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About the workshops
If you have ever wanted to try your hand at oil painting and simply don't know where to start, painting workshops with Amy Jobes will help unleash your creativity.
Amy will guide you step by step to create an expressive landscape oil painting.
Her classes are held in North Devon and cover basic traditional techniques and methods, whilst helping you to let go of feeling anxious or precious about your work.
Sample class content: composition ideas, how to start using a sketch and ground, how to create depth with tone, working from dark to light, muted vs saturated colours, impasto mark marking.
Sample Materials List
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2 x canvases or canvas boards approx. 16 x 12 inches​
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Tear-off palette (available from The Works)
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Liquin
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Low Odour White Spirit (please not Turpentine as the fumes are really bad!)
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Two empty jam jars with lids for the white spirit
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An old rag or rags for wiping away paint
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Kitchen roll or blue roll
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Palette knife or old credit card. If purchasing a new palette knife I prefer large tapered knives
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2 large brushes (from a DIY store is fine)
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1 fan brush
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A selection of firm bristle or hogs hair brushes, for oil painting.
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For example, 2 small 2 medium round brushes and 2 medium flat brushes for example​
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Oil paints:
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Alkyd Titanium white (at least 40ml)
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Burnt Sienna
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Raw Umber
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Ultramarine Blue
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Phthalo blue
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Turquoise
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Lemon yellow
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Rose Madder or similar bright pink
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Buff titanium