Working with Oils | Sinead Lawless
wednesday 10am - 1pm
6 WEEK COURSE
IN-STUDIO & ONLINE OPTIONS
€240
2025
15th January - 19th February (6 Weeks)
26th February - 2nd April (6 weeks)
9th April - 28th May (Break 16th & 23rd April )
(6 weeks)
4th June - 25th June (4 weeks)
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
If you have the impulse to paint but don't know where to start, or find the prospect daunting, this might be the class for you.
On this course, Sinead shares her process of starting a painting in oil paint. Sinead's main focus is helping her students to understand the different qualities of their materials e.g. how to mix colours consistently, different ways to apply paint, and how to create texture. Becoming comfortable with the medium of oils is the goal and subsequently exploring the different ways this medium can be used and enjoyed.
Here at the Schoolhouse you will find an environment free from judgement, that will nurture you on your learning journey.
The painter who stands before an empty canvas must think in terms of paint. What counts in making art is the actual fit between the contents of your head and the qualities of your materials. The knowledge you need to make that fit, comes from noticing what really happens as you work, the way the materials respond, and the way that response and resistance suggest new ideas to you. It's those real and ordinary changes that matter.
- Art & Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Materials needed
Students will be sent the materials list before the beginning of each term.
Meet Sinead
Sinead is a Cork native and studied animation in DLIADT. After over a decade of working in animation, illustration and graphic design, Sinead chose to change her focus to painting and re-kindled her first love, art, right here at the Schoolhouse.
Sinead went on to win RTÉ's televised competition 'Painting the Nation' in 2016. In 2018 she was awarded the Provost Fund for The Visual and Performing Arts by Trinity College Dublin. Sinead's work is in private collections around the world and her winning piece from 'Painting the Nation' was acquired by the OPW. Sinead featured on the WakeUp with Headspace and came second (twice) on Sky Arts, Portrait Artist of the Week, also winning the accolade of 'sitters pick'. She most recently exhibited with ArtNetDLR and the RHA and a participant of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2023.
Sinead works predominantly in oils. She paints with emotion and an expressive colourful style. She is passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge.
"Drawing and painting are ways for me to play, observe and merge the inner and outer worlds and I am fascinated by the human psyche. For me the best vehicle for exploring emotion is portraiture and particularly small abstract moments. It excites me when a painting looks different up close and so I strive to make each colour and each brushstroke slightly different, jigsawing a portrait together with abstract colourful landscapes."
Sinead is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and Dublin Art Society
