Painting

When students have successfully progressed through the drawing stages of the curriculum, they are ready to begin painting casts in oil using a limited palette. This type of monochromatic painting is called grisaille, and it is an excellent means of making the transition from drawing to painting in oil. When the grisaille work has been successfully completed, students begin their first color oil studies of simple and uncomplicated still life subjects. The palette is limited to just a few basic colors, along with black and white, not only to keep things simple at the start, but also to compel students to explore the surprisingly wide range of colors one can achieve with even a very limited palette.

Projects will increase in complexity until a student is considered ready for the final stage of the curriculum where they are introduced to a full color palette with all of its exciting challenges and nearly limitless potential.

Advanced students periodically have the unique opportunity of working literally side by side with their instructor as each of them creates his or her own painting from the same shared model or still life.

Group excursions into the beautiful landscape within Stockholm and the surrounding countryside offer wonderful opportunities for plein air (outdoor) painting and sketching.