September 2018

Tuesday 4^th September: start of Advanced Level course ‘Alla Prima techniques in Tempera Grassa’.
Wednesday 5^th September: start of Basic Level course ‘Painting with Pigments’.

Tuesday 11^th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working with under colours.
Wednesday 12^th September: Painting with Pigments, what a grounds and how do you prepare them.

Tuesday 18^th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, learning how to master floating paint.
Wednesday 19^th September: Painting with Pigments, what are pigments and grinding pigments to pigment paste.

Tuesday 25^th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, building up layers in different sessions.
Wednesday 26^th September: Painting with Pigments, starting to paint with self –made water colour on gesso panels.

October 2018

Tuesday 2^nd October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working on canvas with tempera grassa techniques.
Wednesday 3^th October: Painting with Pigments, simple emulsion paints like distemper and casein paint.

Tuesday 9^th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa and gilding, complex poliment gilding in the classical way.
Wednesday 10^th October: Painting with Pigments, all you have to know about pigments and binders in paintings

Autumn break

Tuesday 23^th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working with  imprimatura´s
Wednesday 24^th October: Painting with Pigments, miniatures on Parchment with glair

Tuesday 30^th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 31^st October: Painting with Pigments, silverpoint on gesso as preparation for emulsion paints.

November 2018

Tuesday 6^th November: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 7^th November: Painting with Pigments, the logic of layering colours in emulsion paint

Tuesday 13^th November: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 14^th November: Painting with Pigments, gesso for canvas, gesso for panels, layering colours.

November 2018

Tuesday 20^th November: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, starting points in oil and tempera and preparation of grounds.
Wednesday 21^st November: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, starting points and preparations of grounds, gesso for tempera.

Tuesday 27^th November: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, imprimatura´s and drawing
Wednesday 28^th November: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, optics of tempera and layering colours

December 2018

Tuesday 4^th December: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, drawing and first session of white
Wednesday 5^th December: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, tratteggio and Cennini tone scales.

Tuesday 11^th December: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, second session of different whites
Wednesday 12^th December: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, building up with glazing and tratteggio, painting dress and cloth.

Winter break (3 weeks)

January 2019

Tuesday 8^th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, third session in different whites
Wednesday 9^th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, skin in the Cennini way

Tuesday 15^th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques
Wednesday 16^th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, skin in the Botticelli way

Tuesday 22^nd January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, final session of whites.
Wednesday 23^rd January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, working on skin with a model.

Tuesday 29^th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, glazing colours
Wednesday 30^th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, hair and fur

February 2019

Tuesday 5^th February: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, isolating tempera in a natural way and glazing.
Wednesday 6^th February: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, space and perspective in tempera.

Tuesday 12^th February: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, opaque oil colours on black and white.
Wednesday 13^th February: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, complex compositions, colour composition in tempera, working with gold leave.

February 2019

Tuesday  19^th February: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, introduction in lime and first attempt

Wednesday 20^th February: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, introduction and preparation of grounds and paint.

Spring break

March 2019

Tuesday 5^th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, working with fresco.

Wednesday 6^th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, design and imprimatura.

Tuesday 12^th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, layering up in fresco and the fresco timetable.

Wednesday 13^th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, oil paint without hazardous solvents, working in linseed oil and walnut oil.

Tuesday 19^th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, complex composition in fresco.

Wednesday 20^th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, isolating and tone scales in oil paint, doodverf.

Tuesday 26^th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, secco on fresco and secco as individual technique.

Wednesday 27^th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, first layers of colours.

April 2019

Tuesday 2^nd April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, sgraffito in theory and praxis.
Wednesday 3^rd April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, building up colours in cloth and skin.

Tuesday 9^th April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, sgraffito in different layers
Wednesday 10^th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, third session of colours.

Tuesday 16^th April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, design and enlargement and preparations of a wall.
Wednesday 17^th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, glazing in the Flemish way.

Tuesday 23^rd April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, spacious project on outside walls.
Wednesday 24^th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, details in tempera and oil.

May break

May 2019

Tuesday 7^th May: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, spacious project on outside walls.

Wednesday 8^th May: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, final stage and final glazing.

May 2019

Tuesday 14^th May : Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, personal projects in making your individual paint.

Wednesday 15^th May: Beeswax paints, encaustic, grounds and tools for painting with hot wax.

Tuesday 21^st May: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, combinations and possibilities.

Wednesday 22^nd May: Beeswax paints, encaustic, how to make a Fayum portrait.

Tuesday 28^th May: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, inventing your own paint.

Wednesday 29^th May: Beeswax paints, encaustic  and special tools for heating your painting.

June 2019

Tuesday 4^th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, the limits of paint and recipes.

Wednesday 5^th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax, recipes and applications.

Tuesday 11^th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, binders, agents, transmitters and so on.

Wednesday 12^th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax on raw surfaces.

Tuesday 18^th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, last tests.

Wednesday 19^th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax in wall painting.

Friday 21^st June: Graduation Exhibition

Saturday 22^nd June: Graduation Exhibition

Sunday 23^rd June: Graduation Exhibition

Tuesday 25^th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, presentation of individual results.

Wednesday 26^th June: Beeswax paints, working with polishing wax as a binder